Q. A major beam in a building structure, is known as

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Q. Rolled steel Tee-sections are used

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Q. When the length of a tension member is too long

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Q. An imaginary line along which rivets are placed, is known as

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Q. The allowable stress in axial tension is generally kept less if thickness of the member is more than

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Q. The maximum permissible slenderness ratio of compression member carrying dead and superimposed load, is

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Q. The safe working pressure for a spherical vessel 1.5 m diameter and having 1.5 cm thick wall not to exceed tensile stress 50kg/cm² , is

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Q. Diameter of a rivet hole is made larger than the diameter of the rivet by

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Q. When a tension member consists of two channel sections, the allowance for rivet hole is made for two holes from

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Q. If d is the distance between the flange angles, the vertical stiffeners in plate girders without horizontal stiffeners, are spaced at a distance not less than

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Q. A column splice is used to increase

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Q. To the calculated area of cover plates of a built-up beam, an allowance for rivet holes to be added, is

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Q. The connection of one beam to another beam by means of an angle at the bottom and an angle at the top, is known as

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Q. Allowable working stress corresponding to the slenderness ratio of double angles placed back to back and connected to one side of a gusset plate, is reduced to

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Q. Bulb angles are used in

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Q. Effective sectional area of a compression member is :

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Q. A fillet weld whose axis is parallel to the direction of the applied load, is known as

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Q. Assuming the values of maximum deviation ΔP and ΔE to be 25% of the computed value of P and E respectively, the minimum value of the factor of safety is

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Q. In case horizontal stiffeners are not used, the distance between vertical legs of flange angles at the top and bottom of a plate girder, is known as

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Q. Rolled steel angle sections are classified as

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