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GATE Building Construction, Materials, and Structural Systems: Elastic and Limit State design – Previous Year Questions

5 GATE previous year questions on Elastic and Limit State design (Building Construction, Materials, and Structural Systems, Architecture and Planning) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2021 AR Q61 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A solid circular column has diameter 300 mm and effective length 3 m. Find slenderness ratio, as an integer.
  2. GATE 2022 AR — Planning Q23 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – A 600 mm wide masonry section has zero tensile capacity and a linear stress distribution. At what limiting eccentricity, in mm, does tensile cracking…
  3. GATE 2022 AR — Architecture Q23 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – A 600 mm wide masonry section has zero tensile capacity and a linear stress distribution. At what limiting eccentricity, in mm, does tensile cracking…
  4. GATE 2022 AR — Architecture Q63 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – The beam diagram shows supports W and Y 4 m apart, a 1 m overhang YZ, 20 kN/m UDL over WY and 120 kN downward at Z. Section X–X is 2 m from W. Taking…
  5. GATE 2023 AR — Architecture Q64 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A 5.65 mm diameter steel wire is 50 m long and carries a 200 kg mass. With E=2×10⁵ N/mm² and g=10 m/s², find elongation in mm, rounded to two decimal…