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15ce4156: Bridge Engineering: Student Id: Student Name: Set-1

1. The document is a student exam for a bridge engineering course. It contains 8 questions across 4 compulsory objectives assessing different topics in bridge engineering. 2. The questions assess topics like site selection for bridges, design of bridge deck slabs, longitudinal girders, T-beam bridges, forces on piers and abutments, well foundations, and expansion bearings. 3. Students are required to calculate, analyze, explain and design various bridge components based on given data under different loading conditions.

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15ce4156: Bridge Engineering: Student Id: Student Name: Set-1

1. The document is a student exam for a bridge engineering course. It contains 8 questions across 4 compulsory objectives assessing different topics in bridge engineering. 2. The questions assess topics like site selection for bridges, design of bridge deck slabs, longitudinal girders, T-beam bridges, forces on piers and abutments, well foundations, and expansion bearings. 3. Students are required to calculate, analyze, explain and design various bridge components based on given data under different loading conditions.

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Student Id: Student Name: Set-1

Odd Semester, 2018-19


Sem-End Examinations, Dec 2018
B. Tech. (CE), 2015/2016 Batch
IV/IV, 7th Semester
15CE4156: BRIDGE ENGINEERING
Time: 3 hours Max. Marks: 60
Answer all questions sequentially (Internal choice for each Question)
CO: 1 BTL: 1,2 Marks: 15

1.

a) Explain briefly the procedure of selection of site for Construction of a bridge. 5M


b) Calculate and Analyze the deck slab of a R.C.C Slab culvert without foot path for IRC:
Class AA Wheeled loading using the given data 10M
With of the culvert is: 12 m
Clear span: 5 m
Thickness of wearing course: 56 mm
Moderate exposure, Materials used: M20 Concrete, Fe415 steel

Or
2.
a) Write a short note on Cable Stayed Bridge. 5M
b) Calculate and Analyze the deck slab of a R.C.C Slab culvert without foot path for IRC:
Class A loading using the given data 9M
With of the culvert is: 10 m
Clear span: 5 m
Thickness of wearing course: 56 mm
Moderate exposure, Materials used: M20 Concrete, Fe415 steel

CO: 2 BTL: Marks


1,2,3 : 15
3.
a) Explain briefly the design procedure of Longitudinal girders of a R.C.C T-Beam bridge
5M
Student Id: Student Name: Set-1

b) Calculate and Analyze the deck slab for one span of a R.C.C T-Beam bridge to be built
on a rural section of State Highway for IRC: Class AA Wheeled loading using the given
data 10M

The bridge consists of 5spans of 14.5 m


Clear roadway: 7.5 m
Thickness of concrete wearing course: 75 mm
Moderate exposure, Materials used: M25 Concrete, Fe415

Or
4
a) Draw the typical cross sections of T-Beam bridges 5M
b) Explain in detail about the design procedure of a T- Beam Bridge 10M

CO: 3 BTL: 3,4 Marks: 15

5
a) Write a short note on the forces to be considered in design of abutments 5M
b) Analyze the stresses at the base of the pier due to 10M
i) Resistance in bearings to movement due to temperature
ii) Wind load
iii) Water current
Data is as follows
1. T-Beam of 21.3 m span
2. Dead load on each span = 2150 kN
3. Reaction due to live load on one span = 650 kN
4. Width of pier at H.F.L = 1.89m, Height of pier at H.F.L = 8.1 m
5. Width of pier at top = 1.8 m, Width at bottom = 2.7 m
Loading: IRC Class AA tracked

Or
6
a) Explain briefly the effect of forces due to wave action and collision of water current
on piers. 5M
b) Calculate the stresses and check the stresses to design an abutment. 10M
Data as follows
1. T-Beam of 16.1 m span
2. Overall length = 17.26 m, Overall height of abutment = 5.6 m
3. Breast wall width = 1.2 m
Student Id: Student Name: Set-1

4. Heel and toe thickness = 700 mm, Width of heel = 2.8 m, Width of Toe = 1.5 m
5. Thickness of dirt wall =300 mm, Height of Dirt wall = 1.3 m
6. Angle of repose = 30o
7. Unit weight of backfill = 18 kN/m3
8. Angle of internal friction of soil = 19o
9. Approach slab thickness = 300 m
10. Dead load = 180 kN/m
11. Live load = 90 kN/m
12. Neoprene bearings of size 320 x 500 x 65 mm, embedding 5 plates of 3 mm
thickness and 6 mm clearance, G = 1kN/mm2

CO: 4 BTL: 3,4,5 Marks: 15


7

a) What are the problems associated with well sinking? 5M


b) Explain in detail the components of well foundation with neat sketches. 10M

Or
8
a) List out the different types of expansion bearings for girder bridges. 5M
b) Analyze the stresses required to design an elastomeric pad bearing for a two-lane R.C
T-beam bridge of 15 m clear span with following data 10M

i) Maximum dead load reaction per bearing = 280 kN


ii) Maximum live load reaction per bearing = 520 kN
iii) Vertical reaction by longitudinal forces per bearing = 12 kN
iv) Longitudinal force per bearing = 33 kN
v) Rotation at bearing of super structure = 0.0025 radians

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