Sample Question Paper for 9210-111

Graduate/Post Graduate Diploma in Civil Engineering

Structural analysis
Duration: three hours

You should have the
following for this examination
one answer book
non-programmable calculator
pen, pencil, drawing
instruments
Design codes: The code of
practice BS 5950: part 1:2000
The following data are
attached
Standard beam displacements
Fixed end moments
General instructions
This paper consists of seven questions over three sections.
Answer five questions with only one question from Section C.
A non-programmable electronic calculator may be used but candidates must show
sufficient steps to justify their answers.
Drawings should be clear, in good proportion and in pencil. Do not use red ink.
All questions carry equal marks. The maximum marks for each section within a
question are shown.
Section A Elastic analysis
1 A continuous beam (ABCD) carries loads and is supported as shown in Figure Q1.
Use the slope deflection method to analyse this beam.
a) Calculate the support moments and draw the support moment diagram. (10 marks)
b) Draw the bending moment diagram for the beam. (5 marks)
c) Draw the shear force diagram for the beam. (5 marks)
Figure Q1
2 A frame (ABCD) carries loads and is supported as shown in Figure Q2. Use the moment
distribution method to analyse this frame.
a) Calculate the support and joint moments at A, B, C, and D. (10 marks)
b) Draw the bending moment diagram for the frame. (5 marks)
c) Draw the shear force diagram for the frame. (5 marks)
Figure Q2
2
3 Two cantilever beams AB and CD are connected at their free ends using a vertical spring
of stiffness 12EI/L
3
. Flexural rigidities of beams are given in the Figure Q3.
a) Determine the force in the spring using the stiffness method of analysis.
b) Calculate the end translations of the cantilevers. (20 marks)
Hint: you may consider only the bending deformations of the cantilevers.
Figure Q3
3 See next page
Section B Plastic analysis
4 a) Explain the need for the yield line analysis method in structural analysis. (4 marks)
b) A square (3.0 m 3.0 m) isotropic reinforced concrete slab is simply supported
along all four edges and subjected to a uniformly distributed load (Figure Q4).
It has been proposed to use the yield line analysis method to analyse this slab.
i) If the effective depth of the slab is 0.12 m, and equal amounts of reinforcement
are provided in both directions (X, Y) which have thefollowing properties:
As = 314 mm
2
/m, f
cu
= 30 N/mm
2
, f
y
= 460 N/mm
2
, determine the yield
moment in both the X and Y directions (m).
Clearly state the assumptions that you have made in this analysis. (6 marks)
ii) Draw the yield line pattern at collapse. (4 marks)
iii) Determine the collapse load of the slab. (6 marks)
Figure Q4
5 A continuous beam (ABCD) is subjected to the loading system as shown in Figure Q5.
It has been proposed to use the plastic theory of collapse to analyse this beam.
The plastic moment resistance capacity and flexural rigidity of the beam are M
p
and
EI respectively.
a) Determine the independent collapse mechanisms of the beam. (6 marks)
b) Determine the collapse load of possible collapse mechanisms and hence
determine the global collapse load of the beam. (6 marks)
c) Draw the bending moment diagram at collapse. (8 marks)
Figure Q5
4
Section C Basic design
[The use of code of practice BS 5950: part 1: 2000 for design in simple and continuous
construction: hot rolled section will be allowed for this section]
6 a) Giving examples, briefly explain the following load types.
i) Dead loads.
ii) Live loads.
iii) Dynamic loads. (3 marks)
b) What is meant by redundancy in structural analysis? (3 marks)
c) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of having redundancies in structures. (3 marks)
d) Clearly explain the reasons for using different overall load factor (
f
) when
calculating ultimate limit state loading. (3 marks)
e) Briefly explain what is meant by limit state design in the design of steel structures. (3 marks)
f) In the design of a multi-storey building structure, one structural engineer has
recommended the use of steel sections compared to reinforced concrete.
Identify some of the attributes required for a multi-storey building structure
and list the advantages of using steel as a construction material. (5 marks)
5 See next page
7 a) Briefly explain the advantages of designing buildings as statically indeterminate
rather than statically determinate. (3 marks)
b) The roof of a building is flat, 18.0 m wide and supported by steel trusses at
4.0 m centres. These trusses are made of steel square hollow sections (SHS)
carrying roof purlins at 3.0 m centres as shown in Figures Q7a and Q7b.
The total dead load of the roof covering (including purlins) is 1.25 kN/m
2
and
live load on the roof is 1.5 kN/m
2
.
i) Analyse the truss using joint resolution for factored loading in accordance
with BS 5950. (10 marks)
ii) Select suitable square hollow sections for the top chord and bottom chord
members in the truss in accordance with BS 5950. (7 marks)
N.B: You can refer to Table Q7 for the extracted Table 3 of BS 4848: Part 2:1991:
Specifications for hot-finished hollow sections for section properties.
Figure Q7a
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Data Attachments
CITY & GUILDS 9210-111






CITY & GUILDS 9210-111
JULY SERIES 2013
D
DISPLACEMENTS OF PRISMATIC MEMBERS
The following table gives the displacement in beams of constant flexural rigidity EI and constant
torsional rigidity GJ, subjected to the loading shown on each beam. The displacement (translations
& rotations) directions are shown in the diagrams. The deformation due to shearing forces are
neglected.

























f
1
f
5 f
2 f
3 f
4
l/4 l/4 l/4 l/4
Beam
5
384

19
2048


Displacement

f
5
f
3
q per unit length
f
4
f
2
f
1
l/4
l/4 l/4 l/4

11
768




f
5
f
3
f
4
f
2
f
1
l/4
l/4 l/4 l/4
P





f
5
f
3
f
4
f
1
f
2
l/4
l/4 l/4 l/4
P
M
































Beam Displacement
f
1
T


(Eect of warping ignored)
l

P
f
3
f
2
f
1
l/2 l/2



f
3
f
2
f
1



l/2 l/2
q per unit length
f
3
f
2
f
1



l/2 l/2
M
Data Attachments
CITY & GUILDS 9210-111