ME-304 RGPV B.Tech
Strength of Material (SM)
Previous year papers and the official syllabus are free to read, no account needed.
Previous Year Papers
7 papers, latest Dec 2025
- ME-304 paper, Dec 2025
- ME-304 paper, Jun 2025
- ME-304 paper, Dec 2024
- ME-304 paper, Jun 2024
- ME-304 paper, Dec 2023
- ME-304 paper, Jun 2023
Syllabus, notes and important questions for ME-304
Syllabus units
Topics as the official RGPV syllabus lists them.
Unit 1 Stress and strain 15 topics
- stresses in members of a structure, axial loading, normal stress, shear stress
- analysis of simple structures, stepped rods, members in series and parallel
- stress‑strain diagram
- Hooke’s law
- stress due to temperature
- Poisson’s ratio
- Bulk modulus
- shear strain
- relation among elastic constants
- residual stress
- fiber reinforced composite materials
- strain energy under axial loads and stresses due to impact of falling weights
- transformation of stress and strain
- principal stresses, normal and shear stress
- Mohr’s circle and its application to two‑ and three‑dimensional analysis
Unit 2 Bending 11 topics
- pure bending
- symmetric member, deformation and stress
- bending of composite sections
- eccentric axial loading
- shear force and bending‑moment (BM) diagram
- relationship among load, shear and BM
- shear stresses in beams
- strain energy in bending
- deflection of beams
- equation of elastic curve
- Macaulay’s method and area‑moment method for deflection of beams
Unit 3 Torsion in shafts 4 topics
- tensional stresses in shafts
- deformation in circular shaft
- angle of twist
- stepped and hollow transmission shafts
Unit 4 Theories of failures 4 topics
- maximum normal stress & shear stress theory
- maximum normal and shear strain‑energy theory
- maximum distortion‑energy theory
- application of theories to different materials and loading conditions
Unit 5 Columns & struts 3 topics
- stability of structures
- Euler’s formula for columns with different end conditions
- Rankine’s formula
Unit 6 == END OF UNITS==
The syllabus lists no separate topics for this unit.
Exam insights
Counted from 7 past ME-304 papers.
Marks asked per paper, by unit
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Unit 1 Stress and strain 35 marks
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Unit 2 Bending 26 marks
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Unit 3 Torsion in shafts 12 marks
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Unit 4 Theories of failures 24 marks
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Unit 5 Columns & struts 15 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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Derive the torsion equation $T/J = \tau/r = G\theta/L$ for a circular shaft under torsion, stating assumptions.
Asked 4 times: 2025, 2023, 2020
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Discuss / explain / list the different theories of failure
Asked 4 times: 2025, 2023, 2020, 2019
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Determine diameter of bolt subjected to axial pull and transverse shear force using theories of failure
Asked 3 times: 2025, 2024