CE 424: STEEL DESIGN 2019

1. The yield stress of the steel beam is 250 N/mm2. The beam must be designed for plastic
moment capacity of 288 KN-m. What is the required plastic section modulus?
2. A hollow circular section has an outside diameter of 300 mm and an inside diameter of
208 mm. this section is used as a cantilever beam 2 m long to carry a concentrated
load at the unsupported end. What is the plastic section modulus of the hollow
section?
3. The plastic section modulus of a wide flange section is 3 x 10 6 mm3 with a shape factor
of 1.126. If Fy = 250 MPa, what is the yield moment capacity of the wide flange
section?
4. The shape factor of a compact wide flange section is 1.12. What is the load factor?
5. Consider a W 760 x 284 steel beam. Compute the plastic section modulus about the
principal axis.
6. Determine the plastic moment capacity of a T-section made up of two 300 mm x 20
mm if Fy = 250 MPa.
7. A fixed ended structural steel beam is used to carry a uniform ultimate load distributed
uniformly throughout its span. The beam has a span of 6 m and has a plastic moment
capacity of 500 KN-m. Compute the uniform load it can carry at collapse load.
8. A simply supported steel beam has a span of 1.8 m and a rectangular cross section of
25 mm x 50 mm deep. If the beam is uniformly loaded over the full span, what is the
intensity of load “W” in N/m which induces a plastic hinge at the midpoint? Consider
Fy = 250 MPa.
9. A hollow box beam has an outside dimension of 400 mm x 600 mm and inside
dimension of 300 mm x 500 mm (uniform thickness of 50 mm) has a fixed ended span
of 6m. Compute for the safe uniform load distributed horizontally that the beam could
carry before collapse if Fy = 250 MPa.
10. A hollow box beam has an outside dimension of 400 mm x 600 mm and inside
dimension of 300 mm x 500 mm (uniform thickness of 50 mm) has one end fixed and
the other end simply supported with a total beam span of 6m. Compute for the safe
uniform load distributed horizontally that the beam could carry before collapse if Fy =
250 MPa.
11. A hollow box beam has an outside dimension of 400 mm x 600 mm and inside
dimension of 300 mm x 500 mm (uniform thickness of 50 mm) has a fixed ended span
of 6m. Compute for the concentrated at midspan that the beam could carry before
collapse if Fy = 250 MPa.
12. A steel propped beam having a span of 4 m is fixed at one end and simply supported
at the other end. It carries a concentrated load of 200 KN at its midspan. Determine
the plastic moment capacity using a load factor of 1.5.

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