GATE Steel Structures: Design of beams, beam-columns and column bases – Previous Year Questions

2 GATE previous year questions on Design of beams, beam-columns and column bases (Steel Structures, Civil Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

1. GATE 2023 CE (CE1) Q38 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Consider the horizontal axis passing through the centroid of the steel beam cross-section shown in the figure. What is the shape factor (rounded off…
2. GATE 2026 CE (CE2) Q15 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – As per IS:800-2007, design of a cantilever steel beam section for its moment capacity requires fulfilment of an upper bound, expressed as: M d 1.5\, Z…