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1. A steel beam supporting loads from the floor slab as well as from wall is termed as
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2. 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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3. Which of the following conditions is to be satisfied both in elastic and plastic analysis?
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4. The ratio of plastic section modulus to elastic section modulus
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5. The elastic strain for steel is about
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6. In case of timber structures, the form factor for solid circular cross-section is taken as
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7. In case of timber structures, the simple bending formula M = fz may be applied for
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8. The bracing provided in the plane of end posts is called
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9. The number of seismic zones in which the country has been divided are
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10. The bracing between two columns of a steel tank will be designed to resist
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11. Steel tanks are mainly designed for
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12. The external wind pressure acting on a roof depends on
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13. 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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14. 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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15. As per IS: 800, for compression flange, the outstand of flange plates should not exceed (where t = thickness of thinnest flange plate)
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16. Minimum thickness of web in a plate girder, when the plate is accessible and also exposed to weather, is
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17. 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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18. The use of tie plates in laced columns is
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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. A butt weld is specified by
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22. Bolts are most suitable to carry
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23. 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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24. The difference between gross diameter and nominaldia meter for the rivets up to 25 mm diameter is
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25. When the axis of load lies in the plane of rivet group, then the rivets are subjected to
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26. When the axis of load lies in the plane of rivet group, then the most heavily loaded rivet will be the one which
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27. Bending compressive and tensile stresses respectively are calculated based on
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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 effective width of a column strip of a flat slab, is
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30. According to the steel beam theory of doubly reinforced beams
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31. At-beam behaves as a rectangular beam of a width equal to its flange if its neutral axis
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32. By over-reinforcing a beam, the moment of resistance can be increased not more than
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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. Which of the following methods of structural analysis is a displacement method?
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35. Which of the following methods of structural analysis is a force method?
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36. While using three moments equation, a fixed end of a continuous beam is replaced by an additional span of
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37. The three moments equation is applicable only when
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38. The carryover factor in a prismatic member whose far end is fixed is
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39. According to IS codes recommendations, the maximum depth of stress block for balanced section of a beam of effective depth d is
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40. A truss containing j joints and m members, will be a simple truss if?
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41. Normally in a truss structure, tension occurs at/for?
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42. In frame structure, what transfers the load to columns?
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43. 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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44. 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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45. The sway bracing is designed to transfer
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46. 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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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. The maximum permissible span of asbestos cement sheets is
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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. Minimum pitch of the rivets shall not be less than where d is gross diameter of rivet
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