Centroid and Moment of Inertia · Strength of Materials Or Solid Mechanics · GATE CE
Marks 1
The steel angle section shown in the figure has elastic section modulus of 150.92 cm3 about the horizontal X−X axis, which passes through the centroid of the section.

The shape factor of the section is ______ (rounded off to 2 decimal places).
Marks 2
A linearly elastic beam of length 2l with flexural rigidity EI has negligible mass. A massless spring with a spring constant k and a rigid block of mass m are attached to the beam as shown in the figure.

The natural frequency of this system is
Consider the horizontal axis passing through the centroid of the steel beam cross-section shown in the figure. What is the shape factor (rounded off to one decimal place) for the cross-section?

The cross-section of a girder is shown in the figure (not to scale). The section is symmetric about a vertical axis (Y - Y). The moment of inertia of the section about the horizontal axis (X - X) passing through the centroid is _______ cm4 (round off to nearest integer).


