GATE Civil Engineering (CE) 2017 Shift 2 Solved Paper

A simply supported rectangular concrete beam of span 8 m has to be prestressed with a force of 1600 kN. The tendon is of parabolic profile having zero eccentricity at the supports. The beam has to carry an external uniformly distributed load of intensity 30 kN/m. Neglecting the self-weight of the beam, the maximum dip (in meters upto two decimal place) of the tendon at the mid-span to balance the external load should be ________.