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Question

Two fine steel wires fastened between  the projections of a heavy brass bar,are just taut when the whole system is at 0oC. What is the tensile stress in the  steel wires the temperature of the system is raised by 200oC ?
brass = 2 × 10-5 oC-1, αsteel = 1.2 × 10-5 oC-1, Ysteel = 200 GNm-2)

Options

A.3.2 Nm-2
B.3.2 × 108 Nm-2
C.32 × 108 Nm-2
D.0.48 Nm-2

Solution

Tensile Stress
= (Ysteel) = YSb - αs) ᐃT
= 200 × 109 (0.8 × 10-5) (200) = 3.2 × 10 Nm-2.
= 0.32 GNm-2.

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