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. The mechanism method of plastic analysis satisfies
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3. The moment-curvature relation at a plastic hinge is
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4. The mechanism method and the statical method give
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5. In case of timber structures, the form factor for solid circular cross-section is taken as
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6. The bracing provided in the plane of end posts is called
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7. Which of the following sections should preferably be used at places where torsion occurs?
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8. The capacity of the smallest pressed steel tank is
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9. Steel tanks are mainly designed for
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10. Minimum pitch provided in riveted steel tanks is (where d is diameter of rivets)
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11. 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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12. The internal pressure coefficient on walls for buildings with large permeability is taken as
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13. Bearing stiffener in a plate girder is used to
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14. Gantry girders are designed to resist
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15. 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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16. Horizontal stiffener in a plate girder is provided to safe guard against
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17. Economical depth of a plate girder corresponds to
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18. 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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19. Angle of inclination of the lacing bar with the longitudinal axis of the column should preferably be between
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20. If the 20 mm rivets are used in lacing bars, then the minimum width of lacing bar should be
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21. A circular column section is generally not used in actual practice because
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22. A butt weld is specified by
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23. When the bolts are subjected to reversal of stresses, the most suitable type of bolt is
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24. Diameter of a bolt hole is usually taken as
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25. By providing sufficient edge distance, which of the following failures of riveted joint can be avoided?
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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
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27. 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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28. With usual notations the depth of the neutral axis of a balanced section, is given by
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29. According to the steel beam theory of doubly reinforced beams
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30. 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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31. At-beam behaves as a rectangular beam of a width equal to its flange if its neutral axis
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32. The spacing of the main bars in a simply supported slab, should not exceed its effective depth by
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33. The self-weight of the footing, is
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34. The width of the flange of a L-beam, should be less than
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35. The maximum ratio of span to depth of a slab simply supported and spanning in one direction, is
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36. Which of the following methods of structural analysis is a force method?
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37. Which of the following is not the displacement method?
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38. A single rolling load of 8 kN rolls alone a girder of 15 m span. the absolute maximum bending moment will be
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39. Bending moment at any section in a conjugate beam gives in the actual beam
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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. 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. 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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44. For a simply supported beam of span 15m, the maximum effective depth to satisfy vertical deflection limit should be?
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45. For a cantilever of effective depth of 0.5m, the maximum span to satisfy vertical deflection limit is?
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46. Generally, the purlins are placed at the panel points so as to avoid
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47. 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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48. 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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49. Horizontal stiffener in a plate girder is provided to safeguard against
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50. Minimum pitch of the rivets shall not be less than where d is gross diameter of rivet
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