Lapped splices in tensile reinforcement are generally not used for bars of size larger than______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Pick up the incorrect statement from the following: Tensile reinforcement bars of a rectangular beam_______________?

   A. Are curtailed if not required to resist the bending moment
   B. Are bent up at suitable places to serve as shear reinforcement
   C. Are bent down at suitable places to serve as shear reinforcement
   D. Are maintained at bottom to provide at least local bond stress

2. The system in which high tensile alloy steel bars (silica manganese steel) are used as prestressing tendons, is known as________________?

   A. Freyssinet system
   B. Magnel-Blaton system
   C. C.C.L. standard system
   D. Lee-McCall system

3. If the diameter of the main reinforcement in a slab is 16 mm, the concrete cover to main bars is_____________?

   A. 10 mm
   B. 12 mm
   C. 14 mm
   D. 16 mm

4. The amount of reinforcement for main bars in a slab, is based upon___________________?

   A. Minimum bending moment
   B. Maximum bending moment
   C. Maximum shear force
   D. Minimum shear force

5. Though the effective depth of a T-beam is the distance between the top compression edge to the centre of the tensile reinforcement, for heavy loads, it is taken as__________________?

   A. 1/8th of the span
   B. 1/10th of the span
   C. 1/12th of the span
   D. 1/16th of the span

6. Steel bars are generally connected together to get greater length than the standard length by providing_______________?

   A. Straight bar splice
   B. Hooked splice
   C. Dowel splice
   D. All the above

7. The width of the flange of a L-beam, should be less than______________?

   A. One- sixth of the effective span
   B. Breadth of the rib + four times thickness of the slab
   C. Breadth of the rib + half clear distance between ribs
   D. Least of the above

8. According to I.S.: 456, 1978 the thickness of reinforced concrete footing on piles at its edges, is kept less than______________?

   A. 5 cm
   B. 10 cm
   C. 15 cm
   D. 20 cm

9. According to I.S. 456, 1978 the thickness of reinforced concrete footing on piles at its edges, is kept less than______________?

   A. 20 cm
   B. 30 cm
   C. 40 cm
   D. 75 cm

10. Top bars are extended to the projecting parts of the combined footing of two columns Ldistance apart for a distance of_______________?

    A. 0.1 L from the outer edge of column
    B. 0.1 L from the centre edge of column
    C. Half the distance of projection
    D. One -fourth the distance of projection