When a load crosses a through type Pratt truss in the direction left to right, the nature of force in any diagonal member in the left half of the span would Always be compression Always be tension Change from compression to tension Change from tension to compression TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
For stable structures, one of the important properties of flexibility and stiffness matrices is that the elements on the main diagonal<br/>(i) Of a stiffness matrix must be positive<br/>(ii) Of a stiffness matrix must be negative<br/>(iii) Of a flexibility matrix must be positive<br/>(iv) Of a flexibility matrix must be negative<br/>The correct answer is (i) and (iv) (i) and (iii) (ii) and (iv) (ii) and (iii) TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
A single rolling load of 8 kN rolls along a girder of 15 m span. The absolute maximum bending moment will be 8 kN.m 15 kN.m 30 kN.m 60 kN.m TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Muller Breslau’s principle for obtaining influence lines is applicable to i) trusses ii) statically determinate beams and frames iii) statically indeterminate structures, the material of which is elastic and follows Hooke’s law iv) any statically indeterminate structure The correct answer is (i), (ii) and (iii) (i), (ii) and (iv) (i) and (ii) only (i) TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
A load W is moving from left to right support on a simply supported beam of span T. The maximum bending moment at 0.4 1 from the left support is 0.25 Wl 0.20 Wl 0.16 Wl 0.24 Wl TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Degree of static indeterminacy of a rigid-jointed plane frame having 15 members, 3 reaction components and 14 joints is 9 8 6 7 TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Castigliano’s first theorem is applicable None of these for statically determinate structures only only when principle of superposition is valid when the system behaves elastically TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
In the displacement method of structural analysis, the basic unknowns are displacements displacements and forces force None of these TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Effects of shear force and axial force on plastic moment capacity of a structure are respectively to increase and decrease increase and increase decrease and decrease decrease and increase TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
The Castigliano's second theorem can be used to compute deflections For beams and frames only For any type of structure In statically determinate structures only At the point under the load only TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?