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Lug angle is

A. Used with single angle member

B. Not used with double angle member

C. Used with channel member

D. All the above

Correct Answer :

D. All the above


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The elastic strain for steel is about

A. 1/12 of strain at the initiation of strain hardening and about 1/120 of maximum strain

B. 1/2 of strain at the initiation of strain hardening and about 1/12 of maximum strain

C. 1/12 of strain at the initiation of strain hardening and 1/200 of maximum strain

D. 1/24 of strain at the initiation of strain hardening and about 1/200 of maximum strain

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Lug angle is

A. Used with single angle member

B. Not used with double angle member

C. Used with channel member

D. All the above

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A major beam in a building structure, is known as

A. A girder

B. A floor beam

C. A main beam

D. All the above

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Which of the following conditions is to be satisfied both in elastic and plastic analysis?

A. Equilibrium condition

B. Yield condition

C. Plastic moment condition

D. Mechanism condition

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Rise of a Jack arch is kept about

A. 1/2 to 1/3 of the span

B. 1/3 to 1/4 of the span

C. 1/4 to 1/8 of the span

D. 1/8 to 1/12 of the span

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Rivets connecting flange angles to cover plates in a plate girder are subjected to

A. Horizontal shear only

B. Vertical load only

C. Both (A) and (B)

D. None of the above

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If L is the overall length of a combined footing having A as its area, d being the distance between the centre of gravity of the base and centre of the base, the larger width b is

A. (A/L) + (3Ad/L²)

B. (A/L) + (6Ad/L²)

C. (A/L) - (6Ad/L²)

D. (A/L) - (3Ad/L²)

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If the floor is supported at or near the bottom but top chords of a bridge is not braced, then the bridge is called

A. Deck type

B. Through type

C. Half through type

D. Double deck type

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Pick up the correct statement from the following:

A. The slenderness ratio of lacing bars for compression members should not exceed 145

B. The minimum width of lacing bar connected with rivets of nominal diameter 16 mm, is kept 50 mm

C. The minimum thickness of a flat lacing bar is kept equal to onefortieth of its length between inner end rivets

D. All the above

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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

A. Only (i)

B. Only (iii)

C. (i) and (ii)

D. (ii) and (iii)

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The permissible stress in bending for rolled steel I-beams and channels, is

A. 1500 kg/cm2

B. 1575 kg/cm2

C. 945 kg/cm2

D. 1650 kg/cm2

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IS : 800 - 1971 recommends that in a splice plate the number of rivets carrying calculated shear stress through a packing greater than 6 mm thick, is to be increased by 2.5% for every

A. 1.00 mm thickness of packing

B. 1.50 mm thickness of packing

C. 2.0 mm thickness of packing

D. 2.50 mm thickness of packing

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When a tension member consists of two channel sections, the allowance for rivet hole is made for two holes from

A. Each web

B. Each flange

C. Each web or one hole from each flange whichever is more

D. Each web or one hole from each flange whichever is less

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Lug angles

A. Are used to reduce the length of connection

B. Are unequal angles

C. Increases shear lag

D. All the above

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Minimum pitch of the rivets shall not be less than

A. 1.5 d

B. 2.0 d

C. 2.5 d

D. 3.0 d Where d is gross diameter of rivet

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Load factor is

A. Always equal to factor of safety

B. Always less than factor of safety

C. Always greater than factor of safety

D. Sometimes greater than factor of safety

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The shape factor of an isosceles triangle for bending about the axis parallel to the base is:

A. 1.5

B. 1.7

C. 2.0

D. 2.34

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Area of openings for buildings of large permeability is more than

A. 10% of wall area

B. 20% of wall area

C. 30% of wall area

D. 50% of wall area

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The risk coefficient k, depends on

A. Mean probable design life of structures

B. Basic wind speed

C. Both (A) and (B)

D. None of the above

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In the virtual work method, the virtual quantity is

A. Displacement

B. Load

C. Slope

D. Moment

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For a cantilever beam of length L built-in at the support and restrained against torsion at the free end, the effective projecting length l is

A. l = 0.7 L

B. l = 0.75 L

C. l = 0.85 L

D. l = 0.5 L

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Diameter of a bolt hole is usually taken as

A. Gross diameter of bolt

B. Nominal diameter + 1.5 mm

C. Nominal diameter + 2.0 mm

D. Nominal diameter of bolt

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The minimum thickness of plates in a steel stack should be

A. 4 mm

B. 5 mm

C. 6 mm

D. 8 mm

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As per IS: 800, in the plastic design, which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
Working Loads Load factor
(i) Dead load 1.7
(ii) Dead Load + imposed load 1.7
(iii) Dead load + load due to wind or 1.3 seismic forces
(iv) Dead load + imposed load + load 1.7 due to wind or seismic forces
Of these statements

A. (i) and (ii) are correct

B. (i), (ii) and (iii) are correct

C. (ii) and (iii) are correct

D. Only (i) is correct

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A beam is defined as a structural member subjected to

A. Axial loading

B. Transverse loading

C. Axial and transverse loading

D. None of these

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

A. Horizontal shear due to wind or earthquake only

B. Horizontal, shear due to wind or earthquake + 2.5% of column loads

C. Column loads + 2.5% of horizontal shear due to wind or earthquake

D. Column loads + full horizontal shear due to wind or earthquake

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In a truss girder of a bridge, a diagonal consists of mild steel flat 4001.S.F. and carries a pull of 80 tonnes. If the gross-diameter of the rivet is 26 mm, the number of rivets required in the splice, is

A. 6

B. 7

C. 8

D. 9

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If the loaded length of span in meters of a railway steel bridge carrying a single track is 6 m, then impact factor is taken as

A. 0

B. 0.5

C. Between 0.5 and 1.0

D. 1.0

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Live load

A. Varies in magnitude

B. Varies in position

C. Is expressed as uniformly distributed load

D. All the above

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The safe working pressure for a spherical vessel 1.5 m diameter and having 1.5 cm thick wall not to exceed tensile stress 50kg/cm2, is

A. 16 kg/cm2

B. 18 kg/cm2

C. 20 kg/cm2

D. 22 kg/cm2