Steel Structure Design Questions

• The equivalent axial load may be defined as the load which produces a stress equal to
• According to I.S. : 800 - 1871, lacing bars resist transverse shear equal to
• Working shear stress on the gross area of a rivet as recommended by Indian Standards, is
• For the economical design of a combined footing to support two equal column loads, the projections of beams in lower tier are kept such that bending moment under column is equal to
• Maximum permissible slenderness ratio of compression members which carry dead and superimposed load, is
• Water pressure in a 80 cm water main is 10 kg/cm2. The minimum thickness of the metal required for the water main, not to be stressed more than 200 kg/cm2, is
• The main type of butt joints, is a double cover
• 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 grossdiameter of the rivet is 26 mm, the number of rivets required in the splice, is
• The channels get twisted symmetrically with regard to its axis
• Outstanding length of a compression member consisting of a channel, is measured as
• The ratio of hydrostatic stress to the volumetric strain within the elastic range, is called
• In a built up section carrying a tensile force, the flanges of two channels are turned outward
• Effective length of a column effectively held in position at both ends and restrained in direction at one end, is
• Cold driven rivets range from
• The greatest gauge of long rivets should not exceed (where d is the diameter of the holes).
• Design of a riveted joint, is based on the assumption:
• When the depth of a plate girder is at least n times the depth of vertical leg of the flange angles, the girder is known as deep plate girder, if n is
• Pick up the correct statement from the following:
• If the area of cross-section of a single angle discontinuous strut is 30 cm2 and allowable working stress corresponding to its slenderness ratio is 625 kg/cm2, the safe load carrying capacity of the member, is
• The economical depth d of a web plate in which allowable bearing stress is fb, and the maximum bending moment is M, as suggested by Rawater and Clark, is