Questions Of State Final Exam

Metal Members

1. Basic principles of metal structures design. Limit state design. Eurocodes. Reliability of steel structures. Typical cases of steel members' actions. Combination of actions. Load caring structures' types. Application field of steel structures. Fabrication. Transportation. Erection. Corrosion and fire protection. 

2. Normal and shear stresses of steel load-bearing members under various actions. Beams under bending, columns under compression, and members under combined compression and bending: design and assessment according EN1993-1-1. Cross-section class types. 

3. Built-up steel members. Laced and battened compression members. Principles and design. Assessment of chords, lacings and battens. 

4. Basics of creating of steel structures connections, joints. Constructional basics, drawings and technology of bolded, slip-resistant and riveted connections. Principles and the design of bolted (of different categories) and riveted connections. 

5. Basics of creating of steel structures connections, joints. Constructional basics, drawings and technology of welded connections. Principles and the design of welded connections (directional and simplified method). 

6. Conceptual design of single-storey buildings. Structure types. Building layout. Main parts of a single-storey building. Actions and transfer of loads to foundations. Main frame. Types of Girders. 

7. Multi-storey buildings. Conceptual design. Basic load-bearing framework. Analysis of multi-storey buildings. Columns and Beams. Stabilizing systems of multi-storey buildings. Truss bracings. 

8. Floor design. Primary and secondary beams. Connections. Composite structures. Composite behaviour. Influence of joints. Fire protection. 

9. Steel industrial halls. Conceptual design. Basic load-bearing framework. Actions and transfer of loads to foundations. Columns, secondary and primary roof beams. Stabilizing systems and truss bracings. Crane types. Crane runway girders. 

10. Bracings of buildings. Bracings of steel industrial halls. Stabilizing systems and truss bracings. 

11. Bridge terminology. Bridge types. Substructure and superstructure. Structural bridge systems. Clearance requirements. Actions on bridges. Bridge equipment. Methods of erection. 

12. Beam girder highway/road bridges. Cross-section. Bridge deck of road bridges. Orthotropic steel decks. Composite steel and concrete deck. Shear lag. Box girder bridges. Truss girder bridges. 

13. Stability problems of columns. Ideal and real column. Equivalent column method. Imperfections of columns. 

14. Stability problems and assessment of beams under bending. Lateral-torsional buckling. Assessment of members under combination of compression and bending. 

15. Local buckling of members of typical cross-sections under various actions. Stability problems of plates and its assessment. Conception of effective^p width of plates. Local buckling of webs and flanges.