Related Questions
What is the correct answer?
4
According to IS: 800, in the Merchant Rankine formula the value of imperfection index (n) is
What is the correct answer?
4
Rolled steel angle sections are classified as
What is the correct answer?
4
The slenderness ratio of a column supported throughout its length by a masonry wall is
What is the correct answer?
4
The maximum axial load which is just sufficient to keep a column in a small deflected shape, is called
What is the correct answer?
4
According to IS Specifications, the effective length of a column effectively held in position at both ends and restrained in direction at one end is taken as
What is the correct answer?
4
The minimum thickness of plates in a steel stack should be
What is the correct answer?
4
Rolled steel beams are:
A. Mainly used to resist bending stress
B. Used as independent sections to resist compressive stress
C. Used as independent sections to resist tensile stress
What is the correct answer?
4
Length of an outstanding leg of a vertical stiffener, may be taken equal to
A. 1/10th of clear depth of the girder plus 15 mm
B. 1/20th of clear depth of the girder plus 20 mm
C. 1/25th of clear depth of the girder plus 25 mm
D. 1/30th of clear depth of the girder plus 50 mm
What is the correct answer?
4
Effective length of a column effectively held in position at both ends and restrained in direction at one end, is
What is the correct answer?
4
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
A. Fully by direct bearing
B. Fully through fastenings
C. 50% by direct bearing and 50% through fastenings
D. 75% by direct bearing and 25% through fastenings
What is the correct answer?
4
The ratio of the span L of the filler joists to the depth d from the underside of the joist to the top of the structural concrete, should not exceed
What is the correct answer?
4
The equivalent axial tensile load Pe, which produces an average axial tensile stress in the section equivalent to the combined stress due to axial tension P and bending M, at the extreme fibre of the section, is given by (where Z is the section modulus of the section).
What is the correct answer?
4
Generally the purlins are placed at the panel points so as to avoid
D. Bending moment in rafter
What is the correct answer?
4
The distance between the outer faces of flanges of a plate girder, is known as
What is the correct answer?
4
Spans of continuous fillers are considered approximately equal if the longest span does not exceed the shortest span by more than
What is the correct answer?
4
Gantry girders are designed to resist
B. Longitudinal loads and vertical loads
C. Lateral, longitudinal and vertical loads
D. Lateral and longitudinal loads
What is the correct answer?
4
Under a concentrated load, bearing stress fb in a beam is given by (where b is the length of the bearing plate and h is the depth of the root of the fillet).
What is the correct answer?
4
Maximum permissible slenderness ratio of a member normally acting as a tie in a roof truss, is
What is the correct answer?
4
A single angle in tension is connected by one leg only. If the areas of connecting and outstanding legs are respectively a and b, net effective area of the angle, is
A. a - [b/{1 + 0.35 (b/a)}]
B. a + [b/{1 + 0.35 (b/a)}]
C. a - [b/{1 + 0.2 (b/a)}]
D. a + [b/{1 + 0.2 (b/a)}]
What is the correct answer?
4
Bearing stiffener in a plate girder is used to
A. Transfer the load from the top flange to the bottom one
B. Prevent buckling of web
C. Decrease the effective depth of web
D. Prevent excessive deflection
What is the correct answer?
4
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
What is the correct answer?
4
The permissible bearing stress in steel, is
What is the correct answer?
4
Which of the following types of riveted joint is free from bending stresses?
B. Butt joint with single cover plate
C. Butt joint with double cover plates
What is the correct answer?
4
According to the Unwin's formula, if t is thickness of the plate in mm, the nominal diameter of the rivet, is
What is the correct answer?
4
The centrifugal force due to curvature of track is assumed to act on the bridge at a height of
A. 1.23 m above the rail level
B. 1.50 m above the rail level
C. 1.83 m above the rail level
D. 2.13 m above the rail level
What is the correct answer?
4
Hudson's formula gives the dead weight of a truss bridge as a function of
C. Effective span of bridge
D. Heaviest axle load of engine
What is the correct answer?
4
To the calculated area of cover plates of a built-up beam, an allowance for rivet holes to be added, is
What is the correct answer?
4
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 Fm is the shearing load due to moment in any rivet.)
A. Is at the maximum distance from CG of the rivet group
B. Is at the minimum distance from CG of the rivet group
C. Gives the maximum angle between the two forces Fa and Fm
D. Gives the minimum angle between the two forces Fa and Fm
What is the correct answer?
4
Pick up the incorrect statement from the following:
A. The nominal diameter of a rivet is its diameter before driving
B. The gross diameter of a rivet is the diameter of rivet hole
C. The gross area of a rivet is the cross-sectional area of the rivet hole
D. The diameter of a rivet hole is equal to the nominal diameter of the rivet plus 1.5 mm
What is the correct answer?
4
Other conditions being same, the load factor in indeterminate structures is
A. Equal to load factor in determinate structures
B. More than the load factor in determinate structures
C. Less than the load factor in determinate structures