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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. 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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3. The shape factor of an isosceles triangle for bending about the axis parallel to the base is:
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4. Load factor is
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5. The mechanism method and the statical method give
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6. The least dimension in case of a circular column of diameter D is taken as
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7. The bracing provided in the plane of end posts is called
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8. 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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9. As per IS: 875, for the purposes of specifying basic wind velocity, the country has been divided into
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10. The allowable tensile stress in structural mild steel plates for steel tank is assumed as
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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. Bearing stiffener in a plate girder is used to
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13. The forces acting on the web splice of a plate girder are
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14. Minimum spacing of vertical stiffeners is limited to (where d is the distance between flange angles)
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15. Shear buckling of web in a plate girder is prevented by using
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16. The effective length of a battened column is increased by
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17. Lacing bars in a steel column should be designed to resist
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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. According to IS Specifications, the maximum pitch of rivets in compression is (where t is thickness of thinnest outside plate or angle)
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20. The actual thickness of butt weld as compared to the thickness of plate is usually
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21. For a standard 45° fillet, the ratio of size of fillet to throat thickness is
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22. Bolts are most suitable to carry
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23. Which of the following types of riveted joint is free from bending stresses?
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24. 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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25. Bending compressive and tensile stresses respectively are calculated based on
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26. The heaviest I-section for same depth is
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27. As the percentage of steel increases
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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. The steel generally used in R.C.C. work, is
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30. The maximum ratio of span to depth of a slab simply supported and spanning in two directions, is
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31. 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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32. The nutral axis of a T-beam exists
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33. The maximum thickness of the cover at the end of a reinforcing bar should not be less than twice the diameter of the bar subject to a minimum of
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34. The width of the flange of a L-beam, should be less than
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35. If the width of the foundation for two equal columns is restricted, the shape of the footing generally adopted, is
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36. Which of the following methods of structural analysis is a force method?
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37. 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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38. While using three moments equation, a fixed end of a continuous beam is replaced by an additional span of
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39. In the slope deflection equations, the deformations are considered to be caused by
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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. 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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42. 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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43. 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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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. A cantilever of length is subjected to a bending moment at its free end If EI is the rigidity of the section, the deflection of the free end, is?
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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. 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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49. 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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50. Which of the following types of riveted joint is free from bending stresses ?
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