Directions The following items consists of two statements on

Directions: The following items consists of two statements; one labelled as \'Statement ()\' and the other as \'Statement (11)\'. You are to examine these two statements carefully and select the answers to these items using the codes given below: Codes: (a) both A and Rare true and R is the correct explanation of A (b) both A and R are true but R is not a correct explanation of A (c) A is true but R is false (d) A is false but R is true

Solution

Option B is correct.

Split tensile test is conducted on a cylindrical specimen or cubical specimen. The same specimen can be used for compressive strength test.

Due to the applied line loaidng a fairly uniform tensile stress is induced over nearly two-third of the loaded diameter as obtained from an elastic analyses.

Both statements are individually true but R is not explaining A.