Steel Structure Design Questions

• A fillet weld may be termed as
• The rolled steel I-sections are most commonly used as beams because these provide
• For determination of allowable stress in axial compression, Indian Standard Institution has adopted
• Tongue plates are provided in a steel girder at
• The distance measured along one rivet line from the centre of a rivet to the centre of adjoining rivet on an adjacent parallel rivet line, is called
• The failure of a web plate takes place by yielding if the ratio of the clear depth to thickness of the web, is less than
• For a rectangular section, the ratio of the maximum and average shear stresses, is
• Web crippling generally occurs at the point where
• Slenderness ratio of a compression member is
• According to IS : 800 - 71, the minimum thickness of a vertically stiffened web plate, shall not be less than
• If flexural rigidity of a column whose length is L and the loaded end is free, is El, the critical load will be
• In plastic analysis, the shape factor for circular sections, is
• The allowable stress in axial tension for rolled I-sections and channels, is taken as
• If the moment of inertia of a section about its axis is I and its effective sectional area is A, its radius of gyration r about the axis, is
• The area Ap of cover plates in one flange of a built up beam, is given by
• To keep the intensity of bearing pressure between the column base and concrete compressive and to vary from zero to , the ratio of the moment M to the axial load P should be
• The method of design of steel framework for greatest rigidity and economy in weight, is known as
• In a tension member if b is width of plate, t is thickness of plate, p is staggered pitch, g is gauge distance, n is number of rivet holes in zig-zag line, n is number of gauge spaces, d is gross diameter of rivets, then the net sectional area Anet of the plate, is
• If d is the distance between the flange angles, the vertical stiffeners in plate girders are spaced not greater than
• The most economical section for a column, is