24-Bld-A1 Elementary Structural Analysis
Worked solutions to 3 past sittings (2016–2018), 24 questions. Pick a sitting, or start from a topic below.
Topics across the sittings
Topics that come up in more than one sitting, taken from the headings of our worked solutions. A topic counts once per sitting.
- Classify each structure (3 sittings): May 2018 Q1 · December 2017 Q1 · December 2016 Q1
- Or statically indeterminate (3 sittings): May 2018 Q1 · December 2017 Q1 · December 2016 Q1
- Reactions (3 sittings): May 2018 Q2 · December 2017 Q2 · December 2016 Q2
- Shear (3 sittings): May 2018 Q2 · December 2017 Q2 · December 2016 Q2
- Statically determinate (3 sittings): May 2018 Q1 · December 2017 Q1 · December 2016 Q1
- Unstable (3 sittings): May 2018 Q1 · December 2017 Q1 · December 2016 Q1
- Bending-moment diagrams for three structures (2 sittings): May 2018 Q2 · December 2017 Q2
- Influence lines for a truss (2 sittings): December 2017 Q5 · December 2016 Q7
Questions by sitting
May 2018
- Question 1: Classify each structure — unstable, statically determinate, or statically indeterminate
- Question 2: Reactions, shear and bending-moment diagrams for three structures
- Question 3: Vertical deflection at B of a non-prismatic beam
- Question 4: Truss member forces by the method of sections/joints
- Question 5: Influence lines
- Question 6: Moment distribution — symmetric two-hinge portal frame
- Question 7: Moment distribution/slope-deflection — asymmetric frame with mixed relative EI
- Question 8: Virtual work — truss deflections at L 1 and L 2
December 2017
- Question 1: Classify each structure — unstable, statically determinate, or statically indeterminate
- Question 2: Reactions, shear and bending-moment diagrams for three structures
- Question 3: Vertical deflection at point 2 of a two-span beam with an overhang
- Question 4: Truss member forces by method of sections
- Question 5: Influence lines for a truss, and shear influence line under a moving vehicle
- Question 6: Slope-deflection analysis of a propped frame with a cantilever overhang
- Question 7: Virtual-work horizontal deflection of a hinged portal frame
- Question 8: Moment distribution for a symmetric multi-bay frame with two internal hinges
December 2016
- Question 1: Classify each structure — unstable, statically determinate, or statically indeterminate
- Question 2: Reactions, shear and bending-moment diagrams for three determinate structures
- Question 3: Vertical deflection at the overhang tip of a symmetric two-span beam
- Question 4: Truss member forces by method of sections
- Question 5: Shear and moment diagrams for a 4°-indeterminate rigid frame
- Question 6: Reactions and diagrams for members 2–3 and 3–4 of a hinged gable frame
- Question 7: Influence lines for a truss and for a hinged (Gerber) beam under a moving vehicle
- Question 8: Virtual-work deflection of a trapezoidal frame