Practice Test: Question Set - 01
1. Select the correct statement
- (A) Material cost of a rivet is higher than that
of a bolt
- (B) Tensile strength of a bolt is lesser than that of a
rivet
- (C) Bolts are used as a temporary fastening whereas
rivets are used as permanent fastenings
- (D) Riveting is less noisy than bolting
2. The forces acting on the web splice of a plate girder are
- (A) Axial forces
- (B) Shear and axial forces
- (C) Shear and bending forces
- (D) Axial and bending forces
3. Generally the purlins are placed at the panel points so as to avoid
- (A) Axial force in rafter
- (B) Shear force in rafter
- (C) Deflection of rafter
- (D) Bending moment in rafter
4. Which of the following sections should preferably be used at places where torsion occurs?
- (A) Angle section
- (B) Channel section
- (C) Box type section
- (D) Any of the above
5. 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
- (D) Unpredictable
6. Rivets connecting flange angles to cover plates in a plate girder are subjected to
- (A) Horizontal shear only
- (B) Vertical load only
- (C) Both (A) and (B)
- (D) None of the above
7. The effective length of a fillet weld should not be less than
- (A) Two times the weld size
- (B) Four times the weld size
- (C) Six times the weld size
- (D) Weld size
8. 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
9. If the floor is supported at or near the bottom but top chords of a bridge is not braced, then the bridge is called
- (A) Deck type
- (B) Through type
- (C) Half through type
- (D) Double deck type
10. The elastic strain for steel is about
- (A) 1/12 of strain at the initiation of strain
hardening and about 1/120 of maximum strain
- (B) 1/2 of strain at the initiation of strain hardening
and about 1/12 of maximum strain
- (C) 1/12 of strain at the initiation of strain
hardening and 1/200 of maximum strain
- (D) 1/24 of strain at the initiation of strain
hardening and about 1/200 of maximum strain
11. In the virtual work method, the virtual quantity is
- (A) Displacement
- (B) Load
- (C) Slope
- (D) Moment
12. In moment resistant connections, the moment resistance of riveted connection depends upon
- (A) Shear in rivets
- (B) Compression in rivets
- (C) Tension in rivets
- (D) Strength of rivets in bearing
13. The portal bracing in a truss bridge is used to
- (A) Transfer load from top of end posts to
bearings
- (B) Keep the rectangular shape of the bridge cross-section
- (C) Stiffen the structure laterally
- (D) Prevent the sides-way buckling of top chord
14. The maximum permissible span of asbestos cement sheets is
- (A) 650 mm
- (B) 810 mm
- (C) 1250 mm
- (D) 1680 mm
15. Lacing bars in a steel column should be designed to resist
- (A) Bending moment due to 2.5% of the column
load
- (B) Shear force due to 2.5% of the column load
- (C) 2.5% of the column load
- (D) Both (A) and (B)
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