GATE Concrete Structures: Design and detailing of beams and slabs – Previous Year Questions
14 GATE previous year questions on Design and detailing of beams and slabs (Concrete Structures, Civil Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.
- GATE 2023 CE (CE1) Q14 – A singly reinforced concrete beam of balanced section is made of M20 grade concrete and Fe415 grade steel bars. The magnitudes of the maximum…
- GATE 2023 CE (CE1) Q37 – Consider a doubly reinforced RCC beam with the option of using either Fe250 plain bars or Fe500 deformed bars in the compression zone. The modulus of…
- GATE 2024 CE (CE2) Q20 – A simply supported, uniformly loaded, two-way slab panel is torsionally unrestrained. The effective span lengths along the short span (x) and long…
- GATE 2024 CE (CE1) Q17 – The following figure shows the arrangement of formwork for casting a cantilever RC beam. [Figure: a cantilever RC beam projecting from an RC column,…
- GATE 2024 CE (CE1) Q30 – Consider a balanced doubly-reinforced concrete section. If the material and other sectional properties remain unchanged, for which of the following…
- GATE 2024 CE (CE1) Q50 – An inverted T-shaped concrete beam (B1) in the figure, with centroidal axis X − X, is subjected to an effective prestressing force of 1000 kN acting…
- GATE 2024 CE (CE1) Q52 – A slab panel with an effective depth of 250 mm is reinforced with 0.2% main reinforcement using 8 mm diameter steel bars. The uniform center-to-center…
- GATE 2025 CE (CE2) Q30 – The design shear strength of a reinforced concrete rectangular beam with a width of 250 mm and an effective depth of 500 mm, is 0.3 MPa. The torsional…
- GATE 2025 CE (CE2) Q40 – Consider a reinforced concrete beam section of 350 mm width and 600 mm depth. The beam is reinforced with the tension steel of 800 mm2 area at an…
- GATE 2025 CE (CE2) Q54 – A reinforced concrete beam has a support section with width of 300 mm and effective depth of 500 mm. The support section is reinforced with 3 bars of…
- GATE 2025 CE (CE1) Q15 – As per IS 456:2000 provisions for two-way slabs with continuous edges, the longitudinal steel reinforcement to be provided in the edge strip is based…
- GATE 2026 CE (CE2) Q48 – A 250 mm wide × 600 mm deep rectangular concrete beam is prestressed by means of 4 high-tensile tendons, each of 14 mm diameter. The centre of the…
- GATE 2026 CE (CE1) Q29 – The required centre-to-centre spacing of 10 mm diameter bars is 150 mm to resist the design moment in a concrete slab. Instead of 10 mm diameter bars,…
- GATE 2026 CE (CE1) Q45 – Select ALL CORRECT option(s) which can be considered to check whether the flexural stresses in a prestressed concrete beam are within the allowable…