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. A steel beam supporting loads from the floor slab as well as from wall is termed as
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3. The minimum thickness of a steel plate, which is directly exposed to weather and is not accessible for cleaning and repainting, should be:
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4. The shape factor of an isosceles triangle for bending about the axis parallel to the base is:
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5. Other conditions being same, the load factor in indeterminate structures is
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6. The mechanism method of plastic analysis satisfies
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7. In case of timber structures, the form factor for solid circular cross-section is taken as
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8. The least dimension in case of a circular column of diameter D is taken as
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9. The portal bracing in a truss bridge is used to
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10. The centrifugal force due to curvature of track is assumed to act on the bridge at a height of
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11. 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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12. The allowable tensile stress in structural mild steel plates for steel tank is assumed as
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13. The number of seismic zones in which the country has been divided are
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14. 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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15. Rivets connecting flange angles to cover plates in a plate girder are subjected to
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16. Gantry girders are designed to resist
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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. Economical depth of a plate girder corresponds to
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21. Lacing bars in a steel column should be designed to resist
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22. Angle of inclination of the lacing bar with the longitudinal axis of the column should preferably be between
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23. The best arrangement to provide unified behavior inbuilt up steel columns is by
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24. The maximum slenderness ratio of a steel column, the design of which is governed by wind or seismic forces is
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25. The slenderness ratio of a column supported throughout its length by a masonry wall is
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26. Select the correct statement
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27. Efficiency of a riveted joint, having the minimum pitch as per IS: 800, is
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28. Which of the following types of riveted joint is free from bending stresses?
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29. Bending compressive and tensile stresses respectively are calculated based on
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30. The width of the flange of a T-beam should be less than
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31. An under-reinforced section means
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32. According to the steel beam theory of doubly reinforced beams
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33. The steel generally used in R.C.C. work, is
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34. 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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35. 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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36. The width of the flange of a L-beam, should be less than
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37. In the displacement method of structural analysis, the basic unknowns are
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38. Which of the following methods of structural analysis is a displacement method?
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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. A simply supported beam A carries a point load at its mid span. Another identical beam B carries the same load but uniformly distributed over the entire span. The ratio of the maximum deflections of the beams A and B, will be?
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41. In frame structure, what transfers the load to columns?
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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. The sway bracing is designed to transfer
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44. 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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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. To minimize the total cost of a roof truss, the ratio of the cost of truss to the cost of purlins shall be
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47. The maximum permissible span of asbestos cement sheets is
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48. 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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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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