CE-305 RGPV B.Tech
Strength of Materials (SM)
Previous year papers and the official syllabus are free to read, no account needed.
Previous Year Papers
7 papers, latest Dec 2025
- CE-305 paper, Dec 2025
- CE-305 paper, Jun 2025
- CE-305 paper, Dec 2024
- CE-305 paper, Jun 2024
- CE-305 paper, Dec 2023
- CE-305 paper, Jun 2023
Syllabus, notes and important questions for CE-305
Syllabus units
Topics as the official RGPV syllabus lists them.
Unit 1 Simple Stress and Strains 11 topics
- Concept of elastic body stress and strain
- Hooke’s law
- Various types of stress and strains
- Elastic constants
- Stresses in compound bars, composite and tapering bars
- Temperature stresses
- Complex stress and strains – two‑dimensional and three‑dimensional stress system
- Normal and tangential stresses
- Principal planes
- Principal stresses and strains
- Mohr’s circle of stresses
Unit 2 Bending and Shearing Stresses 9 topics
- Theory of simple bending
- Concept of pure bending and bending stress
- Equation of bending
- Neutral axis
- Section modulus
- Differential equation of the elastic curve
- Determination of bending stresses in simply supported, cantilever and overhanging beams subjected to point load and uniformly distributed load
- Bending stress distribution across beam cross‑section
- Shearing stress distribution across beam cross‑section
Unit 3 Determination of Slope and Deflection of Beams 7 topics
- Double integration method for slope and deflection
- Macaulay’s method
- Area‑moment method
- Conjugate beam method
- Strain energy method
- Castiglione’s method
- Unit load method
Unit 4 Columns and Struts 12 topics
- Theory of columns and slenderness ratio
- Direct and bending stresses in short columns
- Kern of a section
- Buckling and stability analysis
- Euler’s buckling load for various end conditions
- Rankine’s formula
- Eccentric loads and secant formula
- Imperfections in columns
- Thin pressure vessels: cylinders and spheres
- Stress due to internal pressure
- Change in diameter and volume of vessels
- Theories of failure for pressure vessels
Unit 5 Torsion of Shafts 9 topics
- Concept of pure torsion and torsion equation
- Determination of shear stress and angle of twist for solid circular shafts
- Determination of shear stress and angle of twist for hollow circular shafts
- Analysis of combined bending and torsion problems
- Unsymmetrical bending: principal moment of inertia and product of inertia
- Bending of beams not in a plane of symmetry
- Shear center determination
- Pure bending of curved beams (rectangular, circular, trapezoidal sections)
- Stress distribution and neutral axis in curved beams
Exam insights
Counted from 7 past CE-305 papers.
Marks asked per paper, by unit
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Unit 1 Simple Stress and Strains 24 marks
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Unit 2 Bending and Shearing Stresses 35 marks
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Unit 3 Determination of Slope and Deflection of beams 12 marks
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Unit 4 Columns and Struts 22 marks
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Unit 5 Torsion of Shafts 18 marks
Average marks of the questions from each unit in one paper. You answer only some of them, so the total is more than the paper’s maximum.
Asked again and again
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Draw the shear force and bending moment diagrams for the given beam loading and determine bending moment values.
Asked 7 times: 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022
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Determine the required/minimum diameter of a solid shaft to transmit a given torque or power at given speed without exceeding allowable shear stress.
Asked 4 times: 2024, 2023
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Derive the differential relations between intensity of loading, shear force and bending moment ($dV/dx = -w$, $dM/dx = V$).
Asked 4 times: 2024, 2023, 2022