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1. An upright, relatively slender shaft or 8. A slender column subject to failure by

structure, usually of brick or stone, buckling rather than by crushing.
used as a building support or standing a. Slenderness ratio
alone as a monument. b. bifurcation
a. Post c. long column
b. Pillar d. short column
c. Short column 9. The ratio of the effective length of a
d. Long column column to its least radius of gyration.
2. A stiff vertical support, esp. a wooden a. Slenderness ratio
column in timber framing. b. bifurcation
a. Post c. effective length factor
b. Pillar d. P-delta effect
c. Short column 10. The maximum axial load that can
d. Long column theoretically be applied to a column
3. A thick column subjected to failure by without causing it to buckle.
crushing rather than by buckling. a. Buckling load
a. Column b. Critical buckling load
b. Short column c. Critical buckling stress
c. Long column d. buckling
d. Intermediate column 11. A column having a mode of failure
4. The sudden lateral or torsional between that of a short column and a
instability of slender structural long column, often party inelastic by
member induced by the action of a crushing and party elastic by buckling
compressive load. a. Intermediate column
a. Buckling load b. Critical buckling load
b. Critical buckling load c. Critical buckling stress
c. Buckling d. post
d. Critical buckling stress 12. The distance between inflection
5. The points in a column subject to buckling.
a. Buckling load a. Unbraced length
b. Critical buckling load b. Effective length
c. Buckling c. Effective length factor
d. Critical buckling stress d. None of the above
6. The critical buckling load for a column 13. The amount by which an axis deviates
divided by the area of its cross from another parallel axis.
section. a. kern
a. Buckling load b. kern point
b. Critical buckling load c. eccentricity
c. Buckling d. P-delta effect
d. Critical buckling stress 14. The bracing of a column or other
7. The critical point at which a column, compression member to reduce its
carrying its critical buckling load, may effective length
either buckle or remain undeflected. a. Lateral bracing
a. Critical buckling load b. Unbraced length
b. Buckling load c. bracing
c. Slenderness ratio d. cross bracing
d. bifurcation