FAQ’s for Structural Design Jobs
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1. In moment resistant connections, the moment resistance of riveted connection depends upon
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2. 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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3. In the virtual work method, the virtual quantity is
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4. Other conditions being same, the load factor in indeterminate structures is
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5. The mechanism method and the statical method give
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6. The elastic strain for steel is about
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7. In case of timber structures, the simple bending formula M = fz may be applied for
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8. 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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9. If the floor is supported at or near the bottom but top chords of a bridge are not braced, then the bridge is called
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10. The number of seismic zones in which the country has been divided are
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11. Area of openings for buildings of large permeability is more than
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12. The capacity of the smallest pressed steel tank is
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13. Minimum spacing of vertical stiffeners is limited to (where d is the distance between flange angles)
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14. 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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15. Shear buckling of web in a plate girder is prevented by using
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16. Economical depth of a plate girder corresponds to
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17. If the 20 mm rivets are used in lacing bars, then the minimum width of lacing bar should be
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18. The maximum slenderness ratio of a compression member carrying both dead and superimposed load is
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19. According to IS Specifications, the effective length of a column effectively held in position at both ends and restrained in direction at one end is taken as
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20. The slenderness ratio of a column supported throughout its length by a masonry wall is
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21. The effective length of a fillet weld should not be less than
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22. Select the correct statement
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23. By providing sufficient edge distance, which of the following failures of riveted joint can be avoided?
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24. When the axis of load lies in the plane of rivet group, then the rivets are subjected to
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25. 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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26. 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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27. The width of the flange of a T-beam should be less than
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28. At-beam behaves as a rectangular beam of a width equal to its flange if its neutral axis
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29. By over-reinforcing a beam, the moment of resistance can be increased not more than
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30. 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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31. The spacing of the main bars in a simply supported slab, should not exceed its effective depth by
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32. In a simply supported slab, alternate bars are curtailed at
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33. The self-weight of the footing, is
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34. The maximum bending moment due to a train of wheel loads on a simply supported girder
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35. While using three moments equation, a fixed end of a continuous beam is replaced by an additional span of
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36. In the slope deflection equations, the deformations are considered to be caused by
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37. The centroid of compressive force, from the extreme compression fiber, in limit state design lies at a distance of ? (Where xu is the depth of natural axis at the limit state of collapse)
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38. According to IS codes recommendations, the maximum depth of stress block for balanced section of a beam of effective depth d is
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39. When shear stress exceeds the permissible limit in a slab, then it is reduced by
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40. A simply supported beam carries varying load from zero at one end and W at the other end. If the length of the beam is a, the maximum bending moment will be?
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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. For a cantilever of effective depth of 0.5m, the maximum span to satisfy vertical deflection limit is?
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45. 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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46. The relation between intensity of wind pressure p and velocity of wind V is taken as
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47. Intermediate vertical stiffeners in a plate girder need be provided if the depth of web exceeds (where t is thickness of web)
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48. Horizontal stiffener in a plate girder is provided to safeguard against
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49. Battening is preferable when the( i) column carries axial load only, ii) space between the two main components is not very large, iii) column is eccentrically loaded The correct answer is)
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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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