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GATE Concrete Structures: Working stress and limit state design concepts – Previous Year Questions

5 GATE previous year questions on Working stress and limit state design concepts (Concrete Structures, Civil Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2024 CE (CE2) Q21 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – The structural design method that DOES NOT take into account the safety factors on the design loads is
  2. GATE 2025 CE (CE1) Q52 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Consider a reinforced concrete beam section of 300 mm width and 700 mm depth. The beam is reinforced with the tension steel of 2000 mm2 area at an…
  3. GATE 2026 CE (CE2) Q14 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – A rectangular singly reinforced concrete beam has a width of 300 mm and an effective depth of 550 mm. The grades of steel and concrete are Fe500 and…
  4. GATE 2026 CE (CE2) Q51 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A simply-supported rectangular reinforced concrete beam has a width 250 mm and an overall depth 600 mm. The effective span of the beam is 6.23 m. The…
  5. GATE 2026 CE (CE1) Q15 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Which one of the following is utilized to determine the long-term deformation of concrete under sustained loading?