☰ Steel Structure (Civil Engineering) - MCQs

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Q13.

Web crippling due to excessive bearing stress can be avoided by :

  • A. increasing web thickness
  • B. providing suitable stiffeners
  • C. increasing length of the bearing plates
  • D. none of these

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Q14.

Intermediate vertical stiffeners in a plate girder need be provided if depth of web exceed :

  • A. 50 t
  • B. 85 t
  • C. 200 t
  • D. 250 t

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Q15.

The external wind pressure acting on a roof depends on :

  • A. degree of permeability of roof
  • B. slope of roof
  • C. both (a) and (b)
  • D. none of these

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Q16.

Generally purlins are placed at the penal points so as to avoid :

  • A. axial force in rafter
  • B. shear force in rafter
  • C. deflection of rafter
  • D. bending moment in rafter

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Q17.

At a section along the span of a welded plate girder, where web is spliced, the bending moments is M. If girder has top flange, web and bottom flange plates of equal area, than share of the bending moment which would be taken by the splice plates would be :

  • A. M
  • B. M/3
  • C. M/7
  • D. M/13

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Q18.

Intermediate vertical stiffeners are provided in plate girders to :

  • A. eliminate web bucking
  • B. eliminate local bucking
  • C. transfer concentrated loads
  • D. prevent excessive deflection

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