Problem Set 1

1.) The floor system of an apartment building 2.) The roof system of an office building
consists of a 100-mm-thick reinforced consists of a 100 mm-thick reinforced
concrete slab resting on three steel floor concrete slab resting on four steel beams
beams, which in turn are supported by two (A = 10,450 mm²), which are supported
steel girders, as shown in the figure. The by two steel girders (A = 27,700 mm²).
areas of cross section of the beams and the The girders, in turn, are supported by four
girders are 11,800 mm² and 21,000 mm², columns, as shown in the figure.
respectively. Determine the following: Determine the following:
a.) Dead load acting on the beam CD a.) Dead load acting on girder AG
b.) Dead load acting on the girder AE. b.) If live load is applied with the intensity of 1
c.) If a 150-mm-thick brick wall, which is 2.1 m kN/m², determine the load acting on the beam
high and 7.5 m long, bears directly on the top EF
of beam CD. Determine the dead load acting c.) The load acting upon Girder AG
on beam CD d.) The reaction at column A

Unit Weights of Construction Materials

Concrete = 23.6 kN/m³
Steel = 77.0 kN/m³
Brick = 18.8 kN/m³
 b.) The reaction at A
3.) The beam is loaded with a uniform c.) The maximum moment of the frame
load of 20 kN/m and two concentrated
loads of 50 kN as shown in the figure.
Determine the following:
a.) The value of the “W” kN/m so that it will
be in equilibrium.
b.) The maximum moment of the beam
c.) Location of the nearest point of inflection
from A.

4.) The given frame shown is pin

connected at A and supported by a
roller at C. It is subjected to a 5.) For the given section, determine
concentrated load of 60 kN at the the following:
midspan of BC and a horizontal a.) Moment of Inertia along x-axis from
uniformly distributed wind load of 40 the neutral axis
kN/m. Determine the following: b.) Moment of Inertia along y-axis from
a.) The reaction at C the neutral axis
c.) Neutral Axis along x-axis and y-axis c.) Neutral Axis along x-axis and y-axis

6.) For the given section, determine

the following:
a.) Moment of Inertia along x at the 7.) A truck and trailer combination
neutral axis crossing a 12-m span has axle loads
b.) Moment of Inertia along y at the of 10, 20, and 30 kN separated
neutral axis respectively by distances of 3 and 5
m. Determine the following:
a.) The maximum moment value.
b.) The maximum shear value.
c.) The center of gravity of the
loadings

9.) A truck with axle loads of 40 kN and

60 kN on a wheel base of 5 m rolls across
a 10-m span. Compute the following:
8.) Determine the reactions in the
supports and the maximum shear and
a.) maximum bending moment
moment values through illustrating the
b.) the maximum shearing force.
shear and moment diagram.
 Problem Set 2
1.) The 18-ft long floor beams in a
building are simply supported at their
ends and carry a floor load of 0.6 lb/in2. If
the beams have W10 × 30 sections with
section modulus of 32.4 in³, and
considering E = 1.6x106 psi and b = d.
10.) a.) Compute the value of Determine the following center-line
deflection at the point where moment spacing (neglect own weight) using:
is applied when E = 200 GPa. a.) allowable flexural stress of 18 ksi.
b.) allowable shearing stress of 3 ksi.
b.) Compute the value of slope at the point
c.) allowable deflection of span/50.
where the uniform load starts (left support)
when E = 140 GPa.
 3.) A cantilever beam, 50 mm wide by
150 mm high and 6 m long, carries a load
that varies uniformly from zero at the free
end to 1000 N/m at the wall. Determine
the following
a.) The magnitude and location of the
maximum flexural stress.
b.) The type and magnitude of the stress
in a fiber 20 mm from the top of the
beam at a section 2 m from the free
end.
c.) Check if the structure is safe for
deflection when E = 75 GPa and

2.) Timbers 12 inches by 12 inches, spaced

3 feet apart on centers, are driven into the
ground and act as cantilever beams to back-
up the sheet piling of a coffer dam.
Determine the maximum safe height of water
behind the dam if water weighs = 62.5 lb/ft3
and the following are considered:
a.) (fb)max = 1200 psi
b.) (fv)max = 300 psi
c.) max deflection = L/40.
 allowable deflection is L/200.

5.) A timber beam in the figure is made

from 80% stress-grade Antipolo wood
with following properties of:
Bending & Tension Parallel to Grade= 18.60 MPa
Modulus of Elasticity in Bending = 5.35 GPa
Compression Parallel to Grain = 10.80 GPa
Compression Perpendicular to Grain= 3.90 MPa
4.) A square timber beam used as a railroad Shear Parallel to Grain = 2.06 MPa
tie is supported by a uniformly distributed Allowable deflection = span/360
loads and carries two uniformly distributed Unit Weight of the material = 10.10 kN/m³
loads each totaling 48 kN as shown.
Neglecting the weight of the beam. Determine Check the following:
the following a.) safe against flexural stress
a.) Size of the section if the maximum b.) safe against shearing stress
flexural stress is limited to 8 MPa. c.) safe against deflection
b.) Size of the section if the maximum
shearing stress is limited to 2 MPa.
c.) Size of the section if the max
deflection is span/300.
6.) A truck with axle loads of 30 kN and 50
kN on a wheel base of 4 m rolls across a 8-m
span. Investigate whether a 250 x 500 mm 7.) A rectangular wooden beam has a
beam is safe to carry the moving loads span of 6 m. and carries a total uniform
shown. Add 10% of the load to account for load of 25 kN/m including its own weight.
impact due to moving loads. Use Fball = The beam is made up of 80% stress
15MPa, Fvall = 1.3MPa, allowable deflection grade Apitong with allowable stresses
is span/300 and unit weight of the material 10 shown on table TM-6.
kN/m3. The weight of the beam hasn’t Allowable Stress for Apitong 80% Stress Grade:
considered yet. Allowable bending =16.5 MPa
Compression parallel to grain = 9.56 MPa
Compression perpendicular to grain= 2.20MPa
Shear parallel to grain = 1.73 MPa
Modulus of elasticity = 7310 MPa
Allowable deflection = L/240
b = h/2
Which of the following gives the smallest
dimension when the:
a.) beam that will not exceed the
allowable bending stress?
b.) beam that will not exceed the allowable
shearing stress?
c.) that will not exceed the allowable deflection?
 b.) the maximum shear stress if the depth
of water is 2.0 m, in MPa.
c.) the maximum depth of water if the
allowable bending stress is 4.6 MPa,
in m.

8.) A small dam of height h = 2.5 m is

constructed of vertical wood beams, as shown in
the figure TD-RE001. The wood beams, which
have thickness t = 75 mm are simply supported
by horizontal steel beams at A and B. Calculate
the following:
a.) the maximum bending stress if the
depth of water is 2.0 m, in MPa.

9.) A wooden beam having a span of 4 m.

Is subjected to a uniform load of 10 kN/m.
lt has a triangular cross section having a
base width of 140 mm and an altitude of
300 mm. Neglecting the weight of the
beam. Which of the following gives:
a.) the section modulus of the beam?
b.) the flexural stress of the beam?
c.) the max. shearing stress developed planks. Which of the following gives:
on the beam? a.) the moment capacity (kN.m) of the
lower plank?
b.) the flexural stress (MPa) of the upper
plank?
c.) the radius of curvature of the whole
plank?

10.) A simply supported beam spanning

3m is made of two planks on top of the
other respectively with the following Problem Set 3
dimensions of 100x50mm and
100x75mm. The beam is subjected to a 1.) An I cross-section timber material is used
uniform load of 5 kN/m on the whole span as a 2.8 m simply supported beam
and a concentrated load of 10 kN at the consisting of 3-75x250mm arranged as
midspan. Use Ew = 5000 MPa for both shown with a unit weight of 10 kN/m3. The
 size of the bolt is 12 mm in diameter with 6m span with 2-40 mm diameter holes
a strength in shear for 90 MPa. It is are bored as shown. Neglecting the
spaced at 200 mm o.c. in row. Determine weight and considering the following Fball
the following: = 23,000 kPa, Fvall = 700 kPa, max =
a.) The maximum shear load based on the L/250. Check for the following:
strength of the bolts a.) Shear stress at the support
b.) The additional uniform load (kN/m) that b.) Flexural stress at the midspan
the beam can support based on the c.) Deflection at the midspan lacking: E
strength of the bolts. d.) Shear stress at 1.5m from the supports
c.) If the beam is carrying a uniform load of e.) Flexural stress at 1.5m from the supports
20 kN/m (including its own weight),
compute the new spacing of the bolts on
centers.

3.) A flitch beam is composed of two

50x300mm planks reinforced with a
12.5mm steel plate as shown. Assume
that continuous lateral support is
furnished by a floor system supported by
the beam. Use A36 steel with an
allowable bending stress of 150 MPa, Fy
= 250 MPa. Es = 200,00MPa, Ew =
7692MPa, fw = 4.3 MPa. The beam is on
a simple span of 4.8m and supports a
uniformly distributed load of 7.3 kN/m
which includes the weight of the beam.
Allowable stresses for shear:
Steel: fv = 0.60Fy MPa
Wood: fv = 0.58 MPa
2.) A simply supported timber beam with a Determine the following:
200x300 mm dimension is carrying a a.) The resisting moment of the flitch beam
uniform load of 25 kN/m all throughout the b.) The applied moment to the flitch beam
c.) The shear capacity of the flitch beam a.) The size of the gangplank to be placed on
top of the 75x300mm gangplank.
b.) The flexural stress of the old gangplank
after the placement of the new gangplank
on top of it.
c.) The flexural stress of the new gangplank
placed on top of the 75x300mm
gangplank.

5.) A timber beam 150 mm wide by 250 mm

deep is to be reinforced at the top and
4.) A 75x300mm wooden beam is not bottom by the steel plates 10 mm thick.
sufficient to carry the loads imposed upon Assume that n = 15, the beam is to resist
it. It has a simple span of 7.2m. It is to be a moment of 40 kN.m and the beam
used by two men in removing concrete details as shown.
forms on the side of a reinforced concrete a.) Which of the following gives the width of
structure. Each man has a weight of 55 the steel plates without exceeding the
kg but one of them can carry 80 kg while stress in the wood of 10 MPa.
the other can carry only 35 kg. The two b.) Which of the following gives the width of
men will at no time be closer than 1.2m the steel plates without exceeding the
while moving along the plank. Neglect the stress in steel of 120 MPa.
weight of the planks, it is desired to place c.) Which of the following gives the section
another plank of equal length and width of modulus of the composite beam.
the gangplank to be placed on top of the
75x300mm gang plank. Allowable
bending stress = 9.68 MPa. Start the
dimension of your material at 50 mm.
Compute the following:
6.) From the sections shown, the simply 7.) A wooden rectangular beam has been
supported beam spanning to 2 m is notched 1.75m from the supports. The
subjected to a uniform loading of 1kN/m cross-section of the cut section is shown
on the whole span and a 2kN in the figure. The wooden structure has
concentrated load at the midspan. the following properties: Unit weight
a.) Determine the section modulus (mm3) of equivalent to 15 kN/m3 and modulus of
the section shown elasticity to 70 GPa. Which of the
b.) Determine the moment of inertia (mm4) following:
c.) Determine the shearing force in each a.) Will give the value of the additional
nails given that the spacing of each nails uniform load that the beam could carry if
is 20 mm. we are considering the left cross-section
of the beam with
shearing stress
equivalent to
1.50 MPa.
b.) Will give the
value of the
additional
uniform load that
 the beam could carry if we are
considering the right cross-section of the
beam with shearing stress equivalent to
1.50 MPa.
c.) Will give the value of the additional
uniform load that the beam could carry if
we are considering the left cross-section
of the beam with flexural stress equivalent
to 10.50 MPa.

9.) Four 50 mm x 200 mm section is to be

framed to carry maximum shear on a
cantilever span of 4 m. neglecting the
weight of the beam. Allowable shear
stress is 0.70 MPa.

a.) Compute the safe concentrated load that

the beam could carry at a distance of 1.5
m. from the fixed support if the beam is
arranged as shown.

8.) Four pieces of wooden plank is placed on

top of one another. The plank has the
same dimension of 300x75 mm, length
and has the same material having
E = 8000 MPa. The super imposed beam is
subjected to a total moment of 50 kN.m. The
beam is a 6m simply supported. Which of the
following gives the following:
a.) Moment carried by the lowest plank
b.) Moment carried by the 3rd plank from the
bottom
c.) Radius of curvature of all the planks
b.) Compute the safe concentrated load that
the beam could carry at distance of 1.5
m. from the fixed if the beam is arranged
as shown.
 c.) Compute the safe concentrated load that
the beam could carry at a distance of 1.5
m. from the fixed support if it is arranged
as shown.

10.) A box beam which is secured by screws

spaced at 100mm horizontally apart along
the length of the beam. The beam is a
simply supported structure with a
concentrated load (P) at 1.2 m distance
from the left support. Neglecting the weight
of the beam, determine the following

a.) Maximum allowable value of P that will

not exceed the shearing stress of the
timber structure to 800 kPa
b.) Maximum allowable value of P that will
not exceed the total shearing force of the
screw by 1200 N.
c.) The maximum flexural stress of the beam