UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS FACULTY OF ENGINEERING PAPER NO EXAMINATION DATE Yearly 2006/07 BECE/06S/11 | BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering Friday 18 May 2007 Level 1 SERIES PAPER TIME May 2007 Structural Analysis 1 9:30 - 12:30 Hours [CIVE 1004Y(1)] This paper contains SEVEN (7) Questions. Candidates are required to answer ANY FIVE (5) Questions. Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 are attached. Figure 7 can be used for any of the questions.Question 1 A 2m long column is formed by welding together four steel plates to form a square hollow section with internal side dimensions of 250mm. The steel plates are 10mm thick. The steel hollow section is then filled with concrete. ‘The column has to support a load of 400 KN. Determine (a) the stress in the concrete; [14 marks] () _ thestress in the steel; (6) __ the change in length of the column. [6 marks] Modulus of elasticity of steel = 200 GN/m? Modulus of elasticity of concrete = 20 GN/m? Question 2 The beam ABCDE of Figure 1 is simply supported at A and D and loaded as shown. (2) Calculate the reactions at the supports A and D; [6 marks] (6) Sketch the shear force and bending moment diagrams for the beam, showing the essential values. [14 marks] Question 3 Figure 2 shows a steel post 6m high from which a 0.5m high by 1m long signboard is. suspended. The post is made from a circular hollow section of external diameter = 200mm and thickness = 6mm and is fixed rigidly in the ground. The post has a shear modulus G = 80 kN/mm?, (2) Determine the torsional stress in the post due to a wind pressure of 1kN/m? acting normal to the signboard. [12 marks] (6) Estimate the rotation of the top of the post. [8 marks] Page 1 of 2Question 4 Figure 3 shows a T-section which is 100mm wide and 125mm deep with a flange thickness of 25mm and web thickness of 12.5mm. (@) Determine its Second Moment of Area about the horizontal axis through the centroid. [8 marks] (6) A built-in beam with the above section property spans over a length of 5m. If the maximum bending stresses of the beam are 50 MN/m? in compression and 100 MN/m? in tension, calculate the maximum uniformly distributed load (inclusive of the self weight of the beam) that the beam could support. [12 marks] Question 5 a For the two-dimensional pin-jointed frame shown in Figure 4, determine: (a) _ The horizontal and vertical components of reaction at the supports A and G; [6 marks] (b) The nature and values of axial force in each member of the frame, and indicate these on a sketch of the frame. [14 marks] Question 6 ‘The beam ABCDE of Figure 5 is simply supported at A and E and loaded as shown. Determine (a) the deflection of the beam under the 20 kN load; [10 marks] (b) _ the position and magnitude of the maximum deflection. Assume the flexural rigidity (El) for the beam = 1.0 x 10 KNm?. [10 marks] X QuestionZ The continuous beam ABC of Figure 6 carries the loads indicated. The flexural rigidity (El) for span AB is 1 x 10 kNm? and that for span BC is 2 x 10 kNm. Draw the shear force diagram for the beam. [20 marks] END OF QUESTION PAPER Page 2 of 2TACK CA Figure 22Senm 125mm 125m Eiguce 2. Big wre 4Bolen 2okN. 60kNA simply supported beam with a single concentrated load : At section X. | Shearing force [Bending moment A simply supported beam with a uniformly distributed’ load ‘At section X_ | Shearing force [Bending moment when Q, My, x, wperunit length - Pe on nav cr A= 0 x 8 ilar tp z 0 Re Io ing reli