/50

FAQ’s for Structural Design Jobs

1 / 50

1. For rivets in tension with counter-sunk heads, the tensile value shall be

2 / 50

2. The minimum thickness of a steel plate, which is directly exposed to weather and is not accessible for cleaning and repainting, should be:

3 / 50

3. The ratio of plastic section modulus to elastic section modulus

4 / 50

4. Shape factor is a property which depends

5 / 50

5. In case of timber structures, the simple bending formula M = fz may be applied for

6 / 50

6. Hudson’s formula gives the dead weight of a truss bridge as a function of

7 / 50

7. As per IS: 875, for the purposes of specifying basic wind velocity, the country has been divided into

8 / 50

8. The internal pressure coefficient on walls for buildings with large permeability is taken as

9 / 50

9. Intermediate vertical stiffeners in a plate girder need be provided if the depth of web exceeds 9where t is thickness of web)

10 / 50

10. Minimum spacing of vertical stiffeners is limited to (where d is the distance between flange angles)

11 / 50

11. Bearing stiffeners are provided at i) the supports, ii) the mid span, iii) the point of application of concentrated loads. The correct answer is

12 / 50

12. As per IS: 800, for compression flange, the outstand of flange plates should not exceed (where t = thickness of thinnest flange plate)

13 / 50

13. The slenderness ratio of lacing bars should not exceed

14 / 50

14. The use of tie plates in laced columns is

15 / 50

15. Angle of inclination of the lacing bar with the longitudinal axis of the column should preferably be between

16 / 50

16. According to IS:800, in the Merchant Rankine formula the value of imperfection index (n) is

17 / 50

17. If the 20 mm rivets are used in lacing bars, then the minimum width of lacing bar should be

18 / 50

18. The maximum slenderness ratio of a steel column, the design of which is governed by wind or seismic forces is

19 / 50

19. A circular column section is generally not used in actual practice because

20 / 50

20. The actual thickness of butt weld as compared to the thickness of plate is usually

21 / 50

21. For a standard 45° fillet, the ratio of size of fillet to throat thickness is

22 / 50

22. In the cross-section of a weld, throat is the

23 / 50

23. If the thickness of plate to be connected by a rivet is 16mm, then suitable size of rivet as per Unwin’s formula will be

24 / 50

24. The difference between gross diameter and nominaldia meter for the rivets up to 25 mm diameter is

25 / 50

25. When the axis of load lies in the plane of rivet group, then the most heavily loaded rivet will be the one which

26 / 50

26. In a gusseted base, when the end of the column is machined for complete bearing on the base plate, then the axial load is assumed to be transferred to base plate

27 / 50

27. The heaviest I-section for same depth is

28 / 50

28. The minimum number of main steel bars provided in R.C.C.

29 / 50

29. The width of the flange of a T-beam should be less than

30 / 50

30. The effective width of a column strip of a flat slab, is

31 / 50

31. As the percentage of steel increases

32 / 50

32. According to the steel beam theory of doubly reinforced beams

33 / 50

33. If the length of an intermediate span of a continuous slab is 5m, the length of the end span is kept

34 / 50

34. The nutral axis of a T-beam exists

35 / 50

35. The minimum thickness of s flat slab is taken

36 / 50

36. The width of the flange of a L-beam, should be less than

37 / 50

37. Which of the following methods of structural analysis is a displacement method?

38 / 50

38. Which of the following methods of structural analysis is a force method?

39 / 50

39. For a two-hinged arch, if one of the supports settles down vertically, then the horizontal thrust

40 / 50

40. In the slope deflection equations, the deformations are considered to be caused by

41 / 50

41. The carryover factor in a prismatic member whose far end is fixed is

42 / 50

42. According to IS codes recommendations, the maximum depth of stress block for balanced section of a beam of effective depth d is

43 / 50

43. When shear stress exceeds the permissible limit in a slab, then it is reduced by

44 / 50

44. If a concrete column 200×200 mm in cross-section is reinforced with four steel bars of 1200 mm2 total cross-sectional area. Calculate the safe load for the column if permissible stress in concrete is 5 N/mm2 and Es is 15Ec?

45 / 50

45. The maximum deflection due to a uniformly distributed load w/unit length over entire span of a cantilever of length l and of flexural rigidly EI, is?

46 / 50

46. For a cantilever of effective depth of 0.5m, the maximum span to satisfy vertical deflection limit is?

47 / 50

47. The basic wind speed is specified at a height ‘h’ above mean ground level in an open terrain. The value of ’h’ is

48 / 50

48. The range of economical spacing of trusses varies from

49 / 50

49. Which of the following types of riveted joint is free from bending stresses ?

50 / 50

50. The difference between gross diameter and nominal diameter for the rivets up to 25 mm diameter is

Your score is