UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN

Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture

CENG 311 Structural Analysis I

Term Project (2020-21-Semester 1)

Total Marks 20

Kindly solve the following problems and submit the solution as a one PDF file.

1. The balcony located on the third floor of a motel is shown in the photo. It is constructed using a 90 mm-thick
concrete (plain stone) slab which rests on the four simply supported floor beams, two cantilevered side girders
AB and HG, and the front and rear girders. The idealized framing plan with average dimensions is shown in
the adjacent figure. According to local code, the balcony live load is 2 kPa. Draw the shear and moment
diagrams for the front girder BG and a side girder AB. Assume the front girder is a channel that has a weight
of 0.4 kN/m and the side girders are wide flange sections that have a weight of 0.7 kN/m. Neglect the weight
of the floor beams and front railing. For this solution treat each of the five slabs as two-way slabs. Determine
the maximum deflection in the beam AB of the problem 1. Assume E=200GPa and I = 360 x 106 mm4.
[Marks: 10]

2. The Pratt roof trusses are uniformly spaced every 5.5 m. The deck, roofing material,
and the purlins have an average weight of 0.3 kPa. The Building is located in industrial
area and live load on the roof is 1.4 kPa. These loadings occur over the horizontal
projected area of the roof. Determine the force in each member due to dead and live
loads. Neglect the weight of the truss members and assume A is pinned and E is a roller.
[Marks 10]