Gate Crash Course Quiz 3

During earthquake, soft storey failure in a building is due to

• a) Shear failure initiated by short column effect

• b) stress discontinuity initiated by abrupt changes of stiffness

• c) Failure of column initiated by weak column-strong beam effect

• d) Drift of building storey innitiated by pounding effect

• a) P-4, Q-1, R-5, S-2

• b) P-3, Q-5, R-4, S-1

• c) P-3, Q-5, R-1, S-2

• d) P-4, Q-5, R-1, S-3

• a) P-5, Q-3, R-4, S-1

• b) P-2, Q-4, R-3, S-1

• c) P-2, Q-4, R-5, S-3

• d) P-5, Q-3, R-4, S-2

• a) P-1, Q-4, R-3, S-2

• b) P-4, Q-3, R-1, S-5

• c) P-4, Q-3, R-5, S-2

• d) P-3, Q-1, R-5, S-2

• a) P-1, Q-3, R-5, S-4

• b) P-4, Q-1, R-2, S-3

• c) P-4, Q-5, R-2, S-1

• d) P-5, Q-4, R-3, S-2

• a) P-3, Q-4, R-1, S-2

• b) P-5, Q-4, R-3, S-1

• c) P-3, Q-2, R-1, S-5

• d) P-1, Q-3, R-4, S-2

"Mushroom column" is a typical feature of

• a) Pantheon, Rome

• b) Parthenon, Athens

• c) Chrysler Building, New York

• d) Johnson wax building, Racine

in a flat slab the load is transferred through

• a) Beam action

• b) membrane action

• c) plate action

• d) vector action