LAGUNA COLLEGE

SAN PABLO CITY, LAGUNA

ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
STEEL DESIGN PRELIM GRADING

General Instructions: Kindly show your complete solution for every problem. Box your
final answer. Observe proper units. STRICLY NO CHEATING.

Q1-Fill in the Blanks: Complete the following statements below (1 point each)

1. ______________ are steel members readily produced by the steel mills. They are
manufactured in standard shapes and sizes.
2. ______________ is the ratio of second moment of area and distance from N.A
(Neutral axis) to the extreme fiber.
3. Shear Stress is due to the ______________ forces acting on the section. It differs to
tensile and compressive stresses, which are caused by ______________ forces acting
to the area on which they act.
4. Material Fibers located at the ______________ do not elongate nor experience
decrease in length during bending due to loadings.
5. Bending Stress at the Neutral Axis of a given section is equal to ______________.
6. Built steel sections are assembled steel plates commonly joint by means of
______________.
7. In testing the compatibility of anchor bolt thread and nuts, specimens are assembled to
the UTM which will exert tensile forces to the sample. UTM means ______________.
8. ______________are structural members that will support the roofing of the certain
structure.
9. ______________ are commonly used as steel decking and base support for suspended
slabs and mezzanines.
10. For I Beams, average shear stresses are carried by its ______________.

Q2-Steel Section Nomenclature: Name the steel sections provided below. (10 points)

1.

Properties:
Nominal Depth:417 mm
Steel Section Label:
Flange Width: 181 mm
Total Mass: 850 kg
2 points
Beam Length: 10 m

Prepared by: GPOE, RCE

 2.
Properties:
L1: 200 mm Steel Section Label:

L2: 200 mm
Thickness: 25mm

4
L
3. Properties:
Nominal Depth:300 mm
Total Weight: 11,703.33 N
L: 10 meters Steel Section Label:

2 points

4.

A B
Fa Fb

Properties:
Nominal Depth: 318mm
Steel Section Label:
Superimposed Load: 15 KN/m
L: 10 meters
Ay= 78.64932 KN 4 points

By= 78.64932 KN

Problem Solving: Solve for the following problems provided below. Show your complete
and neat solution. (80 points)
1. Considering a circular section with radius r is subjected to a shear force V. Find the
following: (Q3)
(a) Maximum Shear Stress (15 Points)
(b) Maximum Bending Stress (15 Points)
 V

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y
N.A
Center

2. The structural I Beams supporting a floor carries a floor load of 4.6 KN/m2. The beam
span is 6.0 m and simply supported at both ends. Determine the center to center
spacing of the beam if the allowable bending stress of the beam is 120 Mpa and its
section Modulus is 534 x 10 3 mm3. (20 points)

Spacing (s) Spacing (s) Spacing (s)

Slab
Hint: Tributary loadings are at s/2
of both sides of a beam since the
design is one-way type of slab
s/2 s/2

I beams

FRONT VIEW

6 meters
ISOMETRIC VIEW

3. A Flange and a Channel have the following properties:

Wide Flange Channel

Area= 18, 400 mm2 Area= 6, 430 mm2
Ix= 726x10 6mm4 Ix= 131x10 6mm4
Iy= 93.6 x106 mm4 Iy= 3.4 x106 mm4
tw=12 mm tw=10 mm
d=470 mm x=20mm (Centroid of section)
Fb= 138 Mpa Fb=118 Mpa

(a) Find the moment of inertia of the section. (10 points)

(b) Determine the moment capacity of the section (10
Points)
(c) Determine the safe uniform load that the beam could
carry over a 9m simple span.
(10 Points)

SECTION
****BONUS (5 POINTS)

Find the area of the shaded region given that the pattern continues infinitely.

10 cm

10 cm