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FAQ’s for Structural Design Jobs

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1. 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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2. As per IS: 875, for the purposes of specifying basic wind velocity, the country has been divided into

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

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4. The capacity of the smallest pressed steel tank is

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

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6. The risk coefficient k, depends on

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7. 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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8. Rivets connecting flange angles to cover plates in a plate girder are subjected to

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9. Bearing stiffener in a plate girder is used to

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10. The forces acting on the web splice of a plate girder are

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11. Gantry girders are designed to resist

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

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13. Bearing stiffeners are provided at i) the supports, ii) the mid span, iii) the point of application of concentrated loads. The correct answer is

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14. The web crippling due to excessive bearing stress can be avoided by

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15. Horizontal stiffener in a plate girder is provided to safe guard against

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16. 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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17. The best arrangement to provide unified behavior inbuilt up steel columns is by

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18. 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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19. In the cross-section of a weld, throat is the

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20. When the bolts are subjected to reversal of stresses, the most suitable type of bolt is

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21. The heaviest I-section for same depth is

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22. Effective depth and depth of the neutral axis respectively of a singly reinforced?

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23. The width of the flange of a T-beam should be less than

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24. An under-reinforced section means

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25. The effective width of a column strip of a flat slab, is

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26. As the percentage of steel increases

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27. The width of the rib of a T-beam , is generally kept between

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28. 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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29. At-beam behaves as a rectangular beam of a width equal to its flange if its neutral axis

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30. By over-reinforcing a beam, the moment of resistance can be increased not more than

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31. Enlarged head of a supporting column of a flat slab is technically known as

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32. In a simply supported slab, alternate bars are curtailed at

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33. The width of the flange of a L-beam, should be less than

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34. If the width of the foundation for two equal columns is restricted, the shape of the footing generally adopted, is

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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 displacement method?

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37. Which of the following is not the displacement method?

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38. 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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39. When a uniformly distributed load, longer than the span of the girder, moves from left to right, then the maximum bending moment at mid section of span occurs when the uniformly distributed load occupies

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40. The maximum bending moment due to a train of wheel loads on a simply supported girder

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41. For a two-hinged arch, if one of the supports settles down vertically, then the horizontal thrust

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42. 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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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. The sway bracing is designed to transfer

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45. The live load for a sloping roof with slope 15°, where access is not provided to roof, is taken as

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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. For the buildings having a low permeability, the internal wind pressure acting normal to the wall and roof surfaces is taken as (where p is basic wind pressure)

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

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49. Minimum pitch of the rivets shall not be less than where d is gross diameter of rivet

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50. Which of the following types of riveted joint is free from bending stresses ?

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