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APJ ABDUL KALAM TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
SEVENTH SEMESTER B.TECH DEGREE EXAMINATION(S), MAY 2019

Course Code: CE403
Course Name: STRUCTURL ANALYSIS - III

Max. Marks: 100 Duration: 3 Hours
PARTA
Answer any two full questions, each carries 15 marks. Marks
1 a) What are the assumptions in portal method of analysis? (2)
b) Analyse the frame shown in figure 1 using portal method (13)
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Fig 1
2 a) Explain static, external and internal indeterminacy with examples. (5)
b) Explain the concept of physical approach (5)

c) Define kinematic indeterminacy. Compute the kinematic indeterminacy of a rigid (5)
jointed frame of column height ‘h’ and beam span “1? with one end fixed and other
end hinged, if only the beam axial deformations are neglected.
3 ஐ Compare the analysis by flexibility and stiffness matrix (10)
b) Explain the formulae to find out the static indeterminacy of pin-jointed and rigid- (5)

jointed frames

PART B
Answer any two full questions, each carries 15 marks.
4 a) Explain the load transformation matrix approach in flexibility method (8)
b) Explain analysis of plane trusses by flexibility method (7)

5 a) Analyse the plane frame shown in figure 2 by flexibility matrix method and draw (15)

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