List of top Civil Engineering Questions

Compression members always tends to buckle in the direction of
A long Column with fixed ends can carry load as compared to one end fixed and the other free is
If a truss consists of 6 joints and 3 reaction components, then the number of members required for determinate truss is
A three-member isosceles right-angle triangular truss is hinged at A and roller support at B such that the vertical member AB is perpendicular to the horizontal member AC. If a vertical force of 100 kN is acting at C, the force in the member AC is equal to
The ratio of effective length of a column and minimum radius of gyration of its cross-sectional area is known as
A column whose slenderness ratio is greater than 120 is known as
The nature of bending moment developed at the intermediate supports of a continuous beam carrying downward loads is
Continuous beam is a
A propped cantilever AB of span 8 m is fixed at A and supported by a prop at B. It is subjected to a concentrated load of 64 kN acting at mid span. The reaction of the prop is
A simply supported beam of span L and flexural rigidity EI is subjected to a concentrated load of W at mid span. The ratio of maximum deflection to maximum slope anywhere in the beam is
A fixed beam of span 8 m and flexural rigidity $EI = 51,200$ kNm$^2$ is subjected to a concentrated load of 96 kN at mid span. The maximum deflection under the load is
The expression $EI \frac{d^2y}{dx^2}$ at a section of a beam represents
A cantilever beam of span 2 m carries a concentrated load of 48 kN at the free end. If the flexural rigidity of beam EI = 20,000 kNm$^2$, the slope at the free end is
A simply supported beam of span 2L and flexural rigidity EI is subjected to a uniformly distributed load of w/m throughout the span. The deflection at mid span is
According to moment area method, the vertical intercept at a point between the tangents drawn from two points is equal to moment of the area of
A simply supported rectangular beam of span 6 m having width of 100 mm and depth of 200 mm is subjected to a uniformly distributed load of 20 kN/m over the entire span. The maximum shear stress induced in the beam is
Theory of simple bending equation is applicable for
A point in a circular beam of diameter D is subjected to a shear force of F. The ratio of average shear stress to maximum shear stress is
The ratio of moment of inertia of the section about neutral axis to the extreme fibre distance from the neutral axis is
If the maximum shear stress in a rectangular beam cross section is 120 N/mm$^2$, then the average shear stress is
At the free end of a cantilever beam subjected to downward loads,
At the centroid of a loaded beam cross section,
For a cantilever beam of T cross section subjected to uniformly distributed load throughout the length, the maximum bending stress occurs at
The maximum bending stress induced in a beam of rectangular section is 160 N/mm$^2$. If the depth of beam is increased by two times, keeping all the parameters same, the maximum bending stress induced in the beam is
A plate of 100 mm wide and 10 mm thick is bent into an arc of a circle of radius 10 m. If the modulus of elasticity of the material is 200 GPa, then the maximum bending stress induced in the plate is