The document is an exam for a structural analysis course. It contains 15 multi-part questions testing concepts like influence lines, reactions, bending moments, shear forces, arches, cables, frames and plastic analysis. Students are required to analyze structural elements under different loading conditions and constraints.
The document is an exam for a structural analysis course. It contains 15 multi-part questions testing concepts like influence lines, reactions, bending moments, shear forces, arches, cables, frames and plastic analysis. Students are required to analyze structural elements under different loading conditions and constraints.
The document is an exam for a structural analysis course. It contains 15 multi-part questions testing concepts like influence lines, reactions, bending moments, shear forces, arches, cables, frames and plastic analysis. Students are required to analyze structural elements under different loading conditions and constraints.
The document is an exam for a structural analysis course. It contains 15 multi-part questions testing concepts like influence lines, reactions, bending moments, shear forces, arches, cables, frames and plastic analysis. Students are required to analyze structural elements under different loading conditions and constraints.
B.E / B.Tech. (Full Time) DEGREE END SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS, APRIL/MAY 2012 CIVIL ENGINEERING BRANCH SIXTH SEMESTER C E 9351 - STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS II (REGULATIONS 2008) Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 Marks Answer ALL Questions
Part - A (10 x 2 = 20 marks)
1. Draw the IL for (a) Bending moment at quarter span of a simply supported beam. (b) Shear force at mid span of a cantilever beam.
2. What is meant by absolute maximum bending moment in a beam?
3. Sketch qualitatively the influence line for shear at D for the beam in Fig. Q.No.3 (Your sketch shall clearly distinguish between straight lines and curved lines)
1.61 Fig. Q.No.3
4. A beam ABC is supported at A, B and C as shown in Fig.Q.No.4. (D is an internal hinge). Draw
the influence lines for reactions at A and B.
X 4 • 3 X - 4 Fig.Q.No.4 4m 3m „ I \< 1\< •U- 8m *A
5. What is meant by Rib Shortening? How is it influencing the horizontal thrust?
6. Which of the two arches (circular and parabolic) is preferable to carry a uniformly distributed load? Why?
7. Distinguish between unstiffened cable and stiffened cable?
8. What is the minimum number of members required to develop a stable space truss having 4 joints?
9. What is meant by shape factor? What is the shape factor for the following sections (i) rectangle and (ii) circular.
10. Define Kinematic theorem or upper bound theorem.
P a r t - B (5x16 = 80)
11. Four wheel loads of 10, 12, 15 and 8 Tones, spaced at 5m and followed by a udl of 1.5 t/m extending over 10 m starting from a point 5 m behind 8t load, cross a girder of 75 m span from left to right. Calculate the maximum shear force and bending moment at a section 30 m from the right support.
12(a) Determine the influence line for the reaction at the middle support B of the continuous beam shown in Fig.Q.No.12(a). Compute and sketch the ordinates at every quarter of each span.
Ik, 10 m 5 m-
Fig.Q.No.12<a)
OR
12(b) Draw the influence line for reaction at B and for the support moment at A for the propped cantilever shown in Fig.Q.No. 12(b). Compute the IL ordinates at 1.5 m interval.
12 m - Fig.Q.No.12(b) 3^ 13(a) Derive the expression for horizontal thrust in a two hinged arch for the following loading cases, (i) Uniformly distributed load - w per meter throughout the span. (ii) Central concentrated load W.
OR
13(b) A parabolic 3 hinged arch shown in Fig. Q.No. 13(b) carries loads as indicated. Determine (i) resultant reactions at the end supports and (ii) bending moment, shear (radial) and normal thrust at D, 6 m from A.
20 kN 30 kN 25kN/m
3m 6m r i' /VVYVYVYVYX
Fig. Q.No.13(b) 14(a) A cable of horizontal span 21 m is to be used to support six equal loads of 40 kN each at 3 m spacing. The central dip of the cable is limited to 2 m. Find the length of the cable required and also its cross sectional area if the safe tensile stress is 750 N/mm . 2
OR 14(b) Using the method of Tension Coefficient, determine the forces in the members of the crane structure shown in Fig. Q.No.14(b).
Fig. Q.No.14(b)
15(a) A continuous beam ABC is loaded as shown in Fig.Q.No.15(a). Determine the required Mp if the load factor is 3.2.
5 kN/m 60 kN 90 kN S •• R D Fig.Q.No. 15(a)
Mp 2Mp / « ->H—: •H • -> 8m sm 8m 12 m
OR
15(b) Find the value of plastic moment for the portal frame shown in Fig. Q. No. 15(b), loaded upio collapse. |20kN ± _c 6kN
