In a doubly-reinforced beam if ‘c’ and ‘t’ are stresses in concrete and tension reinforcement, ‘d’ is the effective depth and ‘n’ is depth of critical neutral axis, the following relationship holds good mc/t = n/(d - n) (m + c)/t = n/(d + n) mc/t = (d - n)/t (t + c)/n = (d + n)/n TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
The weight of a foundation is assumed as 10% of wall weight 12% of wall weight 5% of wall weight 7% of wall weight TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
If the permissible compressive stress for a concrete in bending is C kg/m², the modular ratio is 2800/C² 2800/3C 2800/C 2300/2C TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
If the diameter of the main reinforcement in a slab is 16 mm, the concrete cover to main bars is 10 mm 12 mm 16 mm 14 mm TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Columns may be made of plain concrete if their unsupported lengths do not exceed their least lateral dimension Four times Two times Five times Three times TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
To ensure uniform pressure distribution, the thickness of the foundation, is Kept uniform throughout Increased gradually towards the edge Decreased gradually towards the edge Kept zero at the edge TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
The system in which high tensile alloy steel bars (silica manganese steel) are used as pre-stressing tendons, is known as Freyssinet system Magnel-Blaton system C.L. standard system Lee-McCall system TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Based on punching shear consideration, the overall depth of a combined footing under a column A, is (Perimeter of column A × Safe punching stress)/(Load on column A × Upward pressure × Area of the column) None of these (Perimeter of column A × Safe punching stress)/(Load on column A + Upward pressure × Area of the column) (Area of the column A × Safe punching stress)/Load on column A TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
A continuous beam shall be deemed to be a deep beam if the ratio of effective span to overall depth, is Less than 2.5 2 2.5 Less than 2 TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
For the design of a simply supported T-beam the ratio of the effective span to the overall depth of the beam is limited to 10 15 20 25 TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?