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Problem 1. Structural Design “CE Board Exam Nov.

1992″

A steel cylinder 12 inches outside and a wall thickness of 1 in. is filled with concrete and used
as a pier to support an axial load in compression If the allowable stress are 40,000 psi for steel
and 3,500 psi for concrete and the youns modulus for steel is 30 x 106 psi and for concrete is
2.8 x 106 psi, what is the allowable load on the pier?

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