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School of Engineering
MIDTERM EXAMINATION
Steel and Timber Design
1st Semester SY 2021 - 2022

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General Instructions:
1. Read test instructions carefully
2. Use of mobile phones and other electronic gadgets during examinations is strictly prohibited.
3. Any forms of cheating is equivalent to 0% in the exam.
4. Use blue or black pen only.
5. No erasures.
6. Show your complete solution

1. A single span beam having a span of 6.5m and has a cross section of 250mm x 450mm. And the
beam is made up of visually stress-graded unseasoned Apitong with 80% stress grade with an
allowable bending stress of 16.5 MPa, modulus of elasticity of 7.31 GPa and allowable deflection
1 kN
of the beam is of span . If the weight of the beam is 6.8 3 and it carries a uniformly distributed
240 m
load through out the span and a concentrated load of 52.75kN at the middle of the span.
a. What is the slenderness factor of the beam (10pts)
b. Allowable bending stress (10pts)
c. Uniformly distributed load it could carry by; bending (10pts) and deflection (10pts)

2. Three planks 120mm x 160mm are arranged as shown and supported by bolts 0.35m apart are
used to support a concentrated load P at the center of a simply supported span of 5m long.
a. What is the value of P (in kN) which causes a maximum flexural stress of 10MPa.(15pts)
b. What is the shear capacity (in kN) of bolts (15pts)

3. A composite beam as shown is to be constructed from wood and reinforced with steel trap. The
beam is subjected to a moment of 90 kN m and a maximum vertical shear of 50kN and modular
ratio is 10
a. What is the max. flexural stress of wood? (10pts)
b. What is the max. flexural stress of steel strap? (10pts)
c. What is the max. shearing stress in the beam? (10pts)

Prepared by: Approved by:

ENGR. MA. ANGELICA CORPUZ-AVILLANOSA, MSCE ENGR. CHRISTOPHER V. GONZALES, CpE

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