Design of steel structures questions with answers
91 multiple-choice questions. Open any question for its answer and explanation.
- Normally, the angle of roof truss with asbestos sheets should not be less than
- Pitch of tacking rivets, when double angles connected back to back and acting as tension members should not be more than
- Efficiency of a riveted joint, having the minimum pitch as per IS : 800, is
- The moment-curvature relation at a plastic hinge is
- The forces acting on the web splice of a plate girder are
- The actual thickness of butt weld as compared to the thickness of plate is usually
- A circular column section is generally not used in actual practice because
- To minimize the total cost of a roof truss, the ratio of the cost of truss to the cost of purlins shall be
- The connection of intermediate vertical stiffeners to the web, not subjected to external loads, shall be designed for a minimum shear force (kN/m) of (where, t = the web thickness in mm h = the outstand of stiffener in mm)
- Diameter of a bolt hole is usually taken as
- If the thickness of thinnest outside plate is 10 mm, then the maximum pitch of rivets in tension will be taken as
- The difference between gross diameter and nominal diameter for the rivets up to 25 mm diameter is
- The slenderness ratio of a column supported throughout its length by a masonry wall is
- The external wind pressure acting on a roof depends on
- 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
- Minimum pitch provided in riveted steel tanks is (where d is diameter of rivets)
- The allowable tensile stress in structural mild steel plates for steel tank is assumed as
- Other conditions being same, the load factor in indeterminate structures is
- In case of timber structures, the simple bending formula M = fz may be applied for
- As per IS : 875, for the purposes of specifying basic wind velocity, the country has been divided into
- The portal bracing in a truss bridge is used to
- The ratio of plastic section modulus to elastic section modulus
- The web crippling due to excessive bearing stress can be avoided by
- 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
- Bearing stiffeners are provided at i) the supports ii) the mid span iii) the point of application of concentrated loads The correct answer is