AP EAMCET Engineering 23 Apr 2019 Shift 1 Paper

A uniform metal bar of length 10 m with a crack at its midpoint is clamped between two rigid supports. The bar buckles upward due to a temperature rise of 40 °C. If the coefficient of lineal' expansion of the metal is 25 × 10−6 °C−1, the maximum displacement of the mid point of the bar is