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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. A steel beam supporting loads from the floor slab as well as from wall is termed as

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3. Load factor is

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

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

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6. The bracing between two columns of a steel tank will be designed to resist

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7. Steel tanks are mainly designed for

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8. The forces acting on the web splice of a plate girder are

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9. 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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10. The web crippling due to excessive bearing stress can be avoided by

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

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12. Shear buckling of web in a plate girder is prevented by using

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13. Economical depth of a plate girder corresponds to

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

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

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

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17. If the 20 mm rivets are used in lacing bars, then the minimum width of lacing bar should be

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

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19. When the bolts are subjected to reversal of stresses, the most suitable type of bolt is

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20. Efficiency of a riveted joint, having the minimum pitch as per IS: 800, is

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21. Minimum pitch of the rivets shall not be less than (where d is gross diameter of rivet)

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22. By providing sufficient edge distance, which of the following failures of riveted joint can be avoided?

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

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25. In a gusseted base, when the end of the column is machined for complete bearing on the base plate, then the axial load is assumed to be transferred to base plate

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

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

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28. An under-reinforced section means

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29. For the design of a simply supported T-beam the ratio of the effective span to the overall depth of the beam is limited to

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30. The maximum ratio of span to depth of a slab simply supported and spanning in two directions, is

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31. The nutral axis of a T-beam exists

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32. The minimum thickness of s flat slab is taken

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

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34. Which of the following methods of structural analysis is a force method?

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

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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 rod of uniform cross-section A and length L force P. The young’s modules E of the material, is?

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40. Shell structure does not have any?

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

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42. 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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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. 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. Generally, the purlins are placed at the panel points so as to avoid

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

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49. 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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50. When the axis of load lies in the plane of rivet group, then the most heavily loaded rivet will be the one which (where, Fa is the load shared by each rivet due to axial load and F mis the shearing load due to moment in any rivet.)

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