Briefly explain the key components that should be included in a detailed structural drawing.
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A piece of material is subjected to two perpendicular tensile stresses of 100MPa and 60MPa. Draw the Mohr’s stress circle and determine the plane on which the resultant stress has maximum obliquity with the normal. Also, find the resultant stress on this plane.
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A cantilever beam is 4 m long and carries a point load of 5 kN at the free end. The flexural stiffness is 53.3 MNm^2.
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Determine the slope and deflection at the free end.
A cantilever of 3 m span carries a uniformly distributed load of 5 kN per meter length over the entire span.
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Determine the deflection at the free end. E = 200 GPa and I = 80 x 10^6 mm^4.
What is Macaulay’s method of beam deflection analysis? What are its advantages over the direct integration method?
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A rectangular beam 100 mm wide and 250 mm deep is subjected to a maximum shear force of 50 kN.
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Determine;
i. Average shear stress
ii. Maximum shear stress, and
iii. Shear stress at a distance of 25 mm above the neutral axis.
A pad foundation is required to support a single square column transferring an axial loads only.
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Using the data provided:
i. Determine a suitable base size,
ii. Check the base with respect to: bending and designing suitable reinforcement where
necessary.
Design Data:
Characteristic dead load on column ; ...
A reinforced concrete beam has a rectangular section of breadth (b) = 250 mm and effective depth (d) = 500 mm. It has to carry a design moment of 305 kNm and fcu=25 N/mm2 and fy=460 N/mm2.
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Prove that the compression reinforcements are required or not. If
required, find out the number of 16mm diameter steel bars that will be required as
compression reinforcements.
The distance of the center of the compression reinforcements
from the compression concrete surface may take as ...
A simply supported rectangular beam of 6m span carries a characteristic dead load (gk) including self-weight of the beam and imposed load (qk) of 8 kN/m and 6 kN/m respectively.
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Calculate the area of reinforcements required by assuming fcu = 30 N/mm2 and fy = 460 N/mm2 and beam dimensions as breadth (b) = 225 mm and effective depth (d) = 425 mm.
Explain the reason for limiting the depth of the neutral axis of a reinforced concrete beam section to 0.5d, according to the BS 8110. Let consider the “d” as the effective depth of the section
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