FAQ’s for Structural Design Jobs
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1. 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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2. The connection of intermediate vertical stiffeners to the web, not subjected to external loads, shall be designed for a minimum shear force (kN/m) of (where, t = the web thickness in mm, h = the outstand of stiffener in mm)
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3. The least dimension in case of a circular column of diameter D is taken as
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4. The bracing provided in the plane of end posts is called
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5. The portal bracing in a truss bridge is used to
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6. The centrifugal force due to curvature of track is assumed to act on the bridge at a height of
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7. 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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8. Hudson’s formula gives the dead weight of a truss bridge as a function of
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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 minimum thickness of plates in a steel stack should be
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11. Minimum pitch provided in riveted steel tanks is (where d is diameter of rivets)
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12. The internal pressure coefficient on walls for buildings with large permeability is taken as
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13. The maximum spacing of vertical stiffeners is(where d is the distance between flange angles)
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14. Lacing bars in a steel column should be designed to resist
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15. According to IS:800, in the Merchant Rankine formula the value of imperfection index (n) is
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16. If the 20 mm rivets are used in lacing bars, then the minimum width of lacing bar should be
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17. A circular column section is generally not used in actual practice because
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18. 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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19. The actual thickness of butt weld as compared to the thickness of plate is usually
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20. A butt weld is specified by
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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. When the bolts are subjected to reversal of stresses, the most suitable type of bolt is
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23. Minimum pitch of the rivets shall not be less than (where d is gross diameter of rivet)
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24. By providing sufficient edge distance, which of the following failures of riveted joint can be avoided?
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25. If the thickness of plate to be connected by a rivet is 16mm, then suitable size of rivet as per Unwin’s formula will be
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26. Which of the following types of riveted joint is free from bending stresses?
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27. The width of the flange of a T-beam should be less than
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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. As the percentage of steel increases
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30. 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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31. In a simply supported slab, alternate bars are curtailed at
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32. The nutral axis of a T-beam exists
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33. The minimum thickness of s flat slab is taken
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34. In the displacement method of structural analysis, the basic unknowns are
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35. A single rolling load of 8 kN rolls alone a girder of 15 m span. the absolute maximum bending moment will be
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36. In the slope deflection equations, the deformations are considered to be caused by
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37. In moment distribution method, the sum of distribution factors of all tha members meeting at any joint is always
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38. 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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39. 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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40. In frame structure, what transfers the load to columns?
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41. Which of the below is a disadvantage of frame structure?
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42. For a simply supported beam of span 15m, the maximum effective depth to satisfy vertical deflection limit should be?
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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 diameter of base of conical flare of a steel stack is 9where d is the diameter of the cylindrical part)
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45. 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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46. Generally, the purlins are placed at the panel points so as to avoid
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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. 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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49. Minimum pitch of the rivets shall not be less than where d is gross diameter of rivet
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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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