In: Civil Engineering
Q5: Experiments were conducted to determine the deflection on a T- section steel girder 200 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm and a rectangular beam made up of concrete having breadth 15 cm and depth equal to 25 cm. T- section girder is used as a simply supported beam for a span of 4 meters but rectangular beam is used as a cantilever beam for span of 6 meters. Both beams are subjected to a uniformly distributed load ‘w’ N/mm run over the entire span. Suggest a suitable value for ‘w’ so that the maximum deflection in the simply supported beam does not exceed 17.65 mm. Compare the maximum value of slope and deflection for both steel and concrete beams. Modulus of Elasticity, E for steel = 2 x 107 N/cm2, E for concrete = 2.5 x 107 kg/cm2. What will be your suggestions to minimize the deflection on both steel and concrete beams based on the results obtained for the slope and the deflection of beams