THE FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC, OFFA ,

P.M.B. 420, OFFA, KWARA STATE.

SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES,
BUILDING TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT.
2ND SEMESTER EXAMINATION 2012/2013
ACADEMIC SESSION
COURSE TITLE: INTRODUCTION TO STRUCTURAL
DESIGN AND DETAILING
COURSE CODE: BLD 202 CLASS: B/T ND YR III DURATION: 2HRS 30Mins.
INSTRUCTION: Attempt any FOUR questions in All.You are advised to show all
necessary workings and write legibly.

1. (a) Technically and in a tabular form, differentiate between a long column and a short
column.
(b) A hollow alloy tube 4m long with external and internal diameters of 40mm and
25mm respectively was found to extend 4.8mm under a tensile load of 60KN.
(i) Find the Buckling Load for the tube with both ends pinned.
(ii) Find the safe Load on the tube, taking a factor of safety of 5.
2. (a) What are Statically determinate Frames?
(b) What are the Two classes of Statically indeterminate Frames
(c) A 9m Span truss is loaded as shown below:
(i) Show whether the Truss is statically determinate or not
(ii) Find the reactions at the Supports
(iii) Find the Forces in all the members of the truss and tabulate the results

3. (a) Briefly describe the following with examples in relation to Building Structures
(i) Dead Loads (ii) Live Loads (iii) Wind Loads
(b) Determine the maximum moment of resistance and area of steel required for the L-
Beam Shown. Take Fcu = 30N/mm2 and Fy = 425N/mm2.
 (c) Two tie bars each 12cm X 1cm are to be connected by a butt welded joint. Calculate
the safe load that the joint can carry if the permissible stress in the weld is 140N/mm 2. (i)
if the butt weld is of full penetration (b) if the butt weld is not of full penetration.
4. (a) What is meant by Welding?
(b) Mention 5 advantages of Welding.
(c) Determine the critical load of a wooden stick column which is 0.9m long and has
35mm by 30mm cross section under the FOUR different end conditions available in
columns. (E = 12GPa)

5. (a) A simply supported rectangular beam of 7m Span carries characteristic dead load of
12KNm-1 and Live Load of 8KNm-1. The beam dimensions are breadth b, 275mm and
effective depth,d, 450mm.Assuming the following material strengths and using BS8110
formulae, calculate the area of reinforcement required.( Fy = 460N/mm2 and Fcu =
30N/mm2 ).
(b)Describe with diagrams only the following types of weld (i) V-butt Weld (ii) T-butt
Weld (iii) Plug or Slot Weld.
6. (a) The beam section shown below has characteristic material strengths of f cu = 30N/mm2
for concrete and fy = 460N/mm2 for the Steel.The design moment at the ultimate limit
state is 165KNm which causes sagging of the Beam.Calculate the area of reinforcement
required.