Pick up the incorrect statement from the following: Tensile reinforcement bars of a rectangular beam Are bent up at suitable places to serve as shear reinforcement Are curtailed if not required to resist the bending moment Are maintained at bottom to provide at least local bond stress Are bent down at suitable places to serve as shear reinforcement TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
A raft foundation is provided if its area exceeds the plan area of the building by 40 % 10 % 20 % 50 % TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
A T-beam behaves as a rectangular beam of a width equal to its flange if its neutral axis Remains within the flange Remains below the slab None of these Coincides the geometrical centre of the beam TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
The width of the flange of a L-beam, should be less than Breadth of the rib + half clear distance between ribs One-sixth of the effective span Breadth of the rib + four times thickness of the slab Least of the above TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
Total pressure on the vertical face of a retaining wall of height h acts parallel to free surface and from the base at a distance of h/3 h/2 h/4 2h/3 TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
The number of treads in a flight is equal to Risers minus one None of these Risers plus one Risers in the flight TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
An R.C.C. roof slab is designed as a two way slab if The slab is continuous over two supports The ratio of spans in two directions is less than 2 It supports live loads in both directions The slab is discontinuous at edges TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
If ‘W’ is weight of a retaining wall and ‘P’ is the horizontal earth pressure, the factor of safety against sliding, is 2.0 1.5 3.0 1.0 TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
According to I.S. : 456 specifications, the safe diagonal tensile stress for M 150 grade concrete, is 5 kg/cm² 20 kg/cm² 15 kg/cm² 10 kg/cm² TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?
A simply supported beam 6 m long and of effective depth 50 cm, carries a uniformly distributed load 2400 kg/m including its self weight. If the lever arm factor is 0.85 and permissible tensile stress of steel is 1400 kg/cm², the area of steel required, is 17 cm² 14 cm² 16 cm² 15 cm² TRUE ANSWER : ? YOUR ANSWER : ?