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This document contains 12 questions about structural analysis for a tutorial. It includes figures showing structures like trusses and beams. Students are asked to identify forces, draw free body diagrams, determine degrees of determinacy, classify structures as determinate or indeterminate, calculate reactions, bending moments, and shear forces, and identify members in tension or compression. The goal of the tutorial is to analyze different structural configurations and practice fundamental concepts in structural analysis.

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Structural Analysis Tutorial 1

This document contains 12 questions about structural analysis for a tutorial. It includes figures showing structures like trusses and beams. Students are asked to identify forces, draw free body diagrams, determine degrees of determinacy, classify structures as determinate or indeterminate, calculate reactions, bending moments, and shear forces, and identify members in tension or compression. The goal of the tutorial is to analyze different structural configurations and practice fundamental concepts in structural analysis.

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Tutorial-1

Structural Analysis (CE21004)


Department of Civil Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Due Date: 22/01/2019

January 14, 2019

Question 1: Look at the figure 1. Answer the following questions: (i)


Draw the free body diagram of each component. (ii) Can this structure be
assumed to be a truss? Explain with reasoning. (iii) Identify the degree of
determinacy. If determinate, solve for the unknown reactions at the support.

Figure 1: Structure for Question 1.

Question 2: For the truss shown in figure 2 below, identify the forces in
all the members. Identify the members in tension and compression:

Figure 2: Truss for Question 2.

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Question 3: Consider a flat desktop monitor lying on a table top. Draw
a two-dimensional representation of the problem. Assuming appropriate di-
mensions. For preventing toppling, at what distance does the (equivalent)
normal force act from the center of the base plate?

Question 4: Draw the bending and shear force diagram for the structures
shown in figure 3.

Figure 3: For Question 4.

Question 5: Identify the degree of indeterminacy for the three trusses


shown in figure 4. Classify the indeterminate ones into externally and inter-
nally indeterminate structures. Can a structure be determinate yet unsta-
ble?

Figure 4: For Question 5.

Question 6: Find the forces in members AC, AD and DE. Assume that
AC, AD and DE have a length of L and the applied force has a magnitude
of P .?
Question 7: Draw free body diagrams for the members AB, BC and CD as
shown in figure 6. The self weight of the members is 0.2KN/m. Determine
shear force, bending momemt at A.
Question 8: Draw the bending and shear force diagram for the structures
shown in figure 7.
Question 9: Draw the bending and shear force diagram for the structures
shown in figure 8. Neglect axial deformation.
Question 10: Determine the degree of external and internal indetermi-
nancy of the bow-string girder shown in figure 9. Assume all joints to be
rigid.

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Figure 5: For Question 6.

Figure 6: For Question 7.

Question 11: Which of the beams shown in figure 10 are statically deter-
minate and indeterminate ? Calculate degrees of indeterminancies. Which
beams are unstable ?
Question 12: Which of the plane frames shown in figure 11 are statically
determinate and indeterminate ? Calculate degrees of indeterminancies.
Which frames are unstable ?

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Figure 7: For Question 8.

Figure 8: For Question 9.

Figure 9: For Question 10.

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Figure 10: For Question 11.

Figure 11: For Question 12.

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