GATE Steel Structures: Connections: simple, eccentric, beam-column – Previous Year Questions

4 GATE previous year questions on Connections: simple, eccentric, beam-column (Steel Structures, Civil Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

1. GATE 2023 CE (CE1) Q31 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – Consider the fillet-welded lap joint shown in the figure (not to scale). The length of the weld shown is the effective length. The welded surfaces…
2. GATE 2025 CE (CE2) Q37 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – A circular tube of thickness 10 mm and diameter 250 mm is welded to a flat plate using 5 mm fillet weld along the circumference. Assume Fe410 steel…
3. GATE 2025 CE (CE1) Q54 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Consider the built-up column made of two I-sections as shown in the figure, with each batten plate bolted to a component I-section of the column…
4. GATE 2026 CE (CE1) Q30 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – Two steel plates are to be connected together by a 5 mm fillet weld of length 150 mm to transfer a design load. If the size of the fillet weld used to…