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

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3. 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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4. In the virtual work method, the virtual quantity is

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

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6. In case of timber structures, the form factor for solid circular cross-section is taken as

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

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9. Area of openings for buildings of large permeability is more than

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10. The bracing between two columns of a steel tank will be designed to resist

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11. Steel tanks are mainly designed for

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12. Minimum pitch provided in riveted steel tanks is (where d is diameter of rivets)

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13. The external wind pressure acting on a roof depends on

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

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

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17. Shear buckling of web in a plate girder is prevented by using

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

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

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

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

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24. Diameter of a bolt hole is usually taken as

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25. As compared to field rivets, the shop rivets are

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

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

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28. The heaviest I-section for same depth is

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29. An under-reinforced section means

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

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31. On a circular slab of radius, the maximum radial moment at the center if the load on the slab in wkn/m2

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32. The self-weight of the footing, is

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33. The minimum thickness of s flat slab is taken

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34. In a pre-stressed member, it is advisable to use

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35. In the displacement method of structural analysis, the basic unknowns are

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

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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. 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. 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. If the size of panel in a flat slab is 6m x 6m, then as per Indian standard code, the widths of column strip and middle strip are

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43. 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?

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44. 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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45. For a simply supported beam of span 15m, the maximum effective depth to satisfy vertical deflection limit should be?

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

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47. The sway bracing is designed to transfer

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48. The relation between intensity of wind pressure p and velocity of wind V is taken as

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49. 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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50. Horizontal stiffener in a plate girder is provided to safeguard against

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