FAQ’s for Structural Design Jobs
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1. Pitch of tacking rivets, when double angles connected back-to-back and acting as tension members should not be more than
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2. In moment resistant connections, the moment resistance of riveted connection depends upon
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3. A steel beam supporting loads from the floor slab as well as from wall is termed as
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4. The minimum thickness of a steel plate, which is directly exposed to weather and is not accessible for cleaning and repainting, should be:
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5. The shape factor of an isosceles triangle for bending about the axis parallel to the base is:
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6. The mechanism method of plastic analysis satisfies
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7. The moment-curvature relation at a plastic hinge is
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8. Shape factor is a property which depends
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9. In case of timber structures, the simple bending formula M = fz may be applied for
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10. 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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11. The diameter of base of conical flare of a steel stack is (where d is the diameter of the cylindrical part)
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12. The number of seismic zones in which the country has been divided are
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13. 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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14. The internal pressure coefficient on walls for buildings with large permeability is taken as
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15. Rivets connecting flange angles to cover plates in a plate girder are subjected to
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16. The maximum spacing of vertical stiffeners is(where d is the distance between flange angles)
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17. Minimum spacing of vertical stiffeners is limited to (where d is the distance between flange angles)
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18. 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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19. The web crippling due to excessive bearing stress can be avoided by
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20. 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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21. Angle of inclination of the lacing bar with the longitudinal axis of the column should preferably be between
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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 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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25. A circular column section is generally not used in actual practice because
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26. Select the correct statement
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27. Efficiency of a riveted joint, having the minimum pitch as per IS: 800, is
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28. 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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29. If the thickness of thinnest outside plate is 10 mm, then the maximum pitch of rivets in tension will be taken as
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30. The minimum number of main steel bars provided in R.C.C.
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31. An under-reinforced section means
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32. For the design of a simply supported T-beam the ratio of the effective span to the overall depth of the beam is limited to
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33. For normal cases, stiffness of a simply supported beam is satisfied if the ratio of its span to its overall depth does not exceed
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34. If the length of an intermediate span of a continuous slab is 5m, the length of the end span is kept
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35. The self-weight of the footing, is
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36. The minimum thickness of s flat slab is taken
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37. Which of the following methods of structural analysis is a displacement method?
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38. Which of the following methods of structural analysis is a force method?
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39. For a two-hinged arch, if one of the supports settles down vertically, then the horizontal thrust
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40. In moment distribution method, the sum of distribution factors of all tha members meeting at any joint is always
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41. 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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42. A simply supported beam A carries a point load at its mid span. Another identical beam B carries the same load but uniformly distributed over the entire span. The ratio of the maximum deflections of the beams A and B, will be?
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43. Shell structure does not have any?
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44. Which of the below is a disadvantage of frame structure?
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45. One of the criteria for the effective width of flange of T-beam is bf =-+bw+6Df6 in above formula, lo signifies?
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46. 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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47. The relation between intensity of wind pressure p and velocity of wind V is taken as
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48. Normally, the angle of roof truss with asbestos sheets should not be less than
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49. The range of economical spacing of trusses varies from
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50. Which of the following types of riveted joint is free from bending stresses ?
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