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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 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. Lug angles

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

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5. Load factor is

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6. The moment-curvature relation at a plastic hinge is

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7. The mechanism method and the statical method give

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

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9. The centrifugal force due to curvature of track is assumed to act on the bridge at a height of

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10. If the loaded length of span in meters of a railway steel bridge carrying a single track is 6 m, then impact factor is taken as

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

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

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13. Bearing stiffener in a plate girder is used to

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14. Intermediate vertical stiffeners in a plate girder need be provided if the depth of web exceeds 9where t is thickness of web)

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

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16. The slenderness ratio of lacing bars should not exceed

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

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18. The use of tie plates in laced columns is

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19. Angle of inclination of the lacing bar with the longitudinal axis of the column should preferably be between

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20. The maximum slenderness ratio of a steel column, the design of which is governed by wind or seismic forces is

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21. The maximum slenderness ratio of a compression member carrying both dead and superimposed load is

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

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

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24. Bending compressive and tensile stresses respectively are calculated based on

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25. The heaviest I-section for same depth is

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26. If the size of a column is reduced above the floor, the main bars of the column, are

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

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

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29. As the percentage of steel increases

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

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

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

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34. The minimum thickness of s flat slab is taken

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35. Which of the following methods of structural analysis is a displacement method?

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

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38. When shear stress exceeds the permissible limit in a slab, then it is reduced by

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39. A lift of weight W is lifted by a rope with an acceleration f. if the area of cross-section of the rope is A, the stress in the rope is?

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40. The maximum deflection due to a load W at the free end of a cantilever of length L and having flexural rigidity EI, is?

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

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43. One of the criteria for the effective width of flange of T-beam is bf =-+bw+6Df6 in above formula, lo signifies?

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44. The sway bracing is designed to transfer

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45. The diameter of base of conical flare of a steel stack is 9where d is the diameter of the cylindrical part)

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46. 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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47. 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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48. The maximum spacing of vertical stiffeners is (where d is the distance between flange angles)

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49. The range of economical spacing of trusses varies from

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50. 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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