Q. The floor slab of a building is supported on reinforced cement floor beams. The ratio of the end and intermediate spans is kept

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Q. For a continuous floor slab supported on beams, the ratio of end span length and intermediate span length, is

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Q. Steel bars are generally connected together to get greater length than the standard length by providing

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Q. By over-reinforcing a beam, the moment of resistance can be increased not more than

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Q. In a cantilever retaining wall without a heel slab

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Q. The design of heel slab of a retaining wall, is based on the maximum bending moment due to:

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Q. A per IS : 1343, total shrinkage for a pretensioned beam, is

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Q. The weight of reinforced concrete, is generally taken as

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Q. The zone in which transverse bending is likely to occur may be obtained by drawing a line from the faces of the column making an angle θ° with horizontal where θ° is

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Q. If P kg/m² is the upward pressure on the slab of a plain concrete footing whose projection on either side of the wall is a cm, the depth of foundation D is given by

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Q. According to load factor method, the permissible load W on a short column reinforced with longitudinal bars and lateral stirrups, is

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Q. If the bearing capacity of soil is 10 tonnes/cm² and the projection of plain concrete footing from walls, is a cm, the depth D of footing is

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Q. An R.C.C. lintel is spanning an opening of 2 m span in a brick wall. The height of the roof is 2.9 m above the floor level and that of the opening is 2.1 m above the floor level. The lintel is to be designed for self weight plus

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Q. The pitch of the main bars in a simply supported slab, should not exceed its effective depth by

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Q. In a singly reinforced beam

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Q. A pre-cast pile generally used, is

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Q. On an absolutely rigid foundation base, the pressure will

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Q. As per IS : 456, the reinforcement in a column should not be less than

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Q. The stresses developed in concrete and steel in reinforced concrete beam 25 cm width and 70 cm effective depth, are 62.5 kg/cm² and 250 kg/cm² respectively. If m = 15, the depth of its neutral axis is

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Q. The angle of repose of a soil is the maximum angle which the outer face of the soil mass makes

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