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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. In moment resistant connections, the moment resistance of riveted connection depends upon

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3. 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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4. 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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5. Other conditions being same, the load factor in indeterminate structures is

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

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7. The least dimension in case of a circular column of diameter D is taken as

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8. The bracing provided in the plane of end posts is called

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9. The portal bracing in a truss bridge is used to

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

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

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12. The risk coefficient k, depends on

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13. Bearing stiffener in a plate girder is used to

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14. Economical depth of a plate girder corresponds to

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15. The effective length of a battened column is increased by

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16. Lacing bars in a steel column should be designed to resist

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

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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. The slenderness ratio of a column supported throughout its length by a masonry wall is

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

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

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22. A butt weld is specified by

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

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

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27. An under-reinforced section means

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

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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. 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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33. The spacing of the main bars in a simply supported slab, should not exceed its effective depth by

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

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

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39. Bending moment at any section in a conjugate beam gives in the actual beam

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40. While using three moments equation, a fixed end of a continuous beam is replaced by an additional span of

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41. The carryover factor in a prismatic member whose far end is fixed is

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42. In moment distribution method, the sum of distribution factors of all tha members meeting at any joint is always

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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. Normally in a truss structure, tension occurs at/for?

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46. 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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47. 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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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. The maximum spacing of vertical stiffeners is (where d is the distance between flange angles)

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50. The range of economical spacing of trusses varies from

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