FAQ’s for Structural Design Jobs
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1. In case of plastic design, the calculated maximum shear capacity of a beam as per IS:800 shall be (where, Aw = effective cross-sectional area resisting shear fy = yield stress of the steel)
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2. Load factor is
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3. Shape factor is a property which depends
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4. The portal bracing in a truss bridge is used to
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5. 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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6. If the floor is supported at or near the bottom but top chords of a bridge are not braced, then the bridge is called
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7. As per IS: 875, for the purposes of specifying basic wind velocity, the country has been divided into
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8. The bracing between two columns of a steel tank will be designed to resist
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9. Steel tanks are mainly designed for
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10. Minimum pitch provided in riveted steel tanks is (where d is diameter of rivets)
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11. The internal pressure coefficient on walls for buildings with large permeability is taken as
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12. The forces acting on the web splice of a plate girder are
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13. Minimum spacing of vertical stiffeners is limited to (where d is the distance between flange angles)
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14. The slenderness ratio of lacing bars should not exceed
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15. 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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16. The effective length of a battened column is increased by
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17. The use of tie plates in laced columns is
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18. Angle of inclination of the lacing bar with the longitudinal axis of the column should preferably be between
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19. If the 20 mm rivets are used in lacing bars, then the minimum width of lacing bar should be
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20. 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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21. In the cross-section of a weld, throat is the
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22. Diameter of a bolt hole is usually taken as
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23. Bolts are most suitable to carry
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24. Efficiency of a riveted joint, having the minimum pitch as per IS: 800, is
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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. The difference between gross diameter and nominaldia meter for the rivets up to 25 mm diameter is
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27. Which of the following types of riveted joint is free from bending stresses?
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28. If the thickness of thinnest outside plate is 10 mm, then the maximum pitch of rivets in tension will be taken as
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29. Bending compressive and tensile stresses respectively are calculated based on
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30. The heaviest I-section for same depth is
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31. The effective width of a column strip of a flat slab, is
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32. According to the steel beam theory of doubly reinforced beams
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33. For normal cases, stiffness of a simply supported beam is satisfied if the ratio of its span to its overall depth does not exceed
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34. The maximum ratio of span to depth of a slab simply supported and spanning in two directions, is
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35. 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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36. The maximum ratio of span to depth of a slab simply supported and spanning in one direction, is
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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. 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 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. Shell structure does not have any?
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42. In frame structure, what transfers the load to columns?
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43. For a simply supported beam of span 15m, the maximum effective depth to satisfy vertical deflection limit should be?
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44. For a cantilever of effective depth of 0.5m, the maximum span to satisfy vertical deflection limit is?
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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. The maximum spacing of vertical stiffeners is (where d is the distance between flange angles)
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49. As per IS: 800, for compression flange, the out stand of flange plates should not exceed (where t = thickness of thinnest flange plate)
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50. The difference between gross diameter and nominal diameter for the rivets up to 25 mm diameter is
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