SSC JE Civil Engineering 2017 Set 1 Solved Paper

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In a truss girder of a bridge, a diagonal consists of mild steel flat 400 ISF and carries a pull of 800 kN. If the gross diameter of the rivets is 26 mm, then the number of rivets required in the splice is ........ .

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Solution:

Strength in bearing,

=2×100×π/4×26^2

= 106kN
Number of rivets,

=800/106=7.54 ≈ 8

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