FAQ’s for Structural Design Jobs
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1. The allowable shear stress in the web of mild steel beams decreases with (where ‘h’ is height and t is thickness)
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2. For rivets in tension with counter-sunk heads, the tensile value shall be
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3. For a compression member with double angle section, which of the following section will give larger value of minimum radius of gyration?
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4. The connection of intermediate vertical stiffeners to the web, not subjected to external loads, shall be designed for a minimum shear force (kN/m) of (where, t = the web thickness in mm, h = the outstand of stiffener in mm)
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5. In case of plastic design, the calculated maximum shear capacity of a beam as per IS:800 shall be (where, Aw = effective cross-sectional area resisting shear fy = yield stress of the steel)
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6. Load factor is
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7. In case of timber structures, the form factor for solid circular cross-section is taken as
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8. compression force in two end posts The pin of a rocker bearing in a bridge is designed for
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9. The effect of racking forces is considered in the design of i) lateral braces, ii) chord members. The correct answer is
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10. If the loaded length of span in meters of a railway steel bridge carrying a single track is 6 m, then impact factor is taken as
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11. The number of seismic zones in which the country has been divided are
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12. Steel tanks are mainly designed for
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13. The maximum spacing of vertical stiffeners is(where d is the distance between flange angles)
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14. Gantry girders are designed to resist
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15. Minimum spacing of vertical stiffeners is limited to (where d is the distance between flange angles)
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16. As per IS: 800, for compression flange, the outstand of flange plates should not exceed (where t = thickness of thinnest flange plate)
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17. Minimum thickness of web in a plate girder, when the plate is accessible and also exposed to weather, is
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18. Economical depth of a plate girder corresponds to
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19. The overlap of batten plates with the main members in welded connections should be more than (where t = thickness of the batten plate)
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20. Lacing bars in a steel column should be designed to resist
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21. According to IS:800, in the Merchant Rankine formula the value of imperfection index (n) is
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22. The best arrangement to provide unified behavior inbuilt up steel columns is by
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23. If the 20 mm rivets are used in lacing bars, then the minimum width of lacing bar should be
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24. The maximum slenderness ratio of a compression member carrying both dead and superimposed load is
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25. The effective length of a battened strut effectively held in position at both ends but not restrained in direction is taken as
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26. The slenderness ratio of a column supported throughout its length by a masonry wall is
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27. When the bolts are subjected to reversal of stresses, the most suitable type of bolt is
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28. Efficiency of a riveted joint, having the minimum pitch as per IS: 800, is
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29. As compared to field rivets, the shop rivets are
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30. 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
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31. The difference between gross diameter and nominaldia meter for the rivets up to 25 mm diameter is
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32. When the axis of load lies in the plane of rivet group, then the rivets are subjected to
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33. The width of the flange of a T-beam should be less than
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34. As the percentage of steel increases
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35. In the displacement method of structural analysis, the basic unknowns are
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36. When a uniformly distributed load, shorter than the span of the girder, moves from left to right, then the conditions for maximum bending moment at a section is that
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37. The maximum bending moment due to a train of wheel loads on a simply supported girder
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38. For a two-hinged arch, if one of the supports settles down vertically, then the horizontal thrust
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39. While using three moments equation, a fixed end of a continuous beam is replaced by an additional span of
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40. The three moments equation is applicable only when
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41. In moment distribution method, the sum of distribution factors of all tha members meeting at any joint is always
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42. When shear stress exceeds the permissible limit in a slab, then it is reduced by
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43. A rod of uniform cross-section A and length L force P. The young’s modules E of the material, is?
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44. A cantilever of length is subjected to a bending moment at its free end If EI is the rigidity of the section, the deflection of the free end, is?
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45. Shell structure does not have any?
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46. For a continuous slab of 3m 3.5m size, the minimum overall depth of slab to satisfy vertical deflection limits is?
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47. The basic wind speed is specified at a height ‘h’ above mean ground level in an open terrain. The value of ’h’ is
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48. To minimize the total cost of a roof truss, the ratio of the cost of truss to the cost of purlins shall be
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49. The range of economical spacing of trusses varies from
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50. As per IS: 800, for compression flange, the out stand of flange plates should not exceed (where t = thickness of thinnest flange plate)
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