Principles

of Structural Analysis and Design

Situation 1: From the figure shown with the loads acting on 10. Compute the force in member AB.
the beam. 11. Compute the force in member AC.
12. Compute the force in member AD.

Situation 5: The parabolic cable shown carries a uniform
horizontal load of 20 kN/m.

1. Which of the following gives the simplest resultant for
the given loads.
2. Which of the following gives the intercept of the resultant
with the beam from the left support.
3. Which of the following gives the angle that the resultant
makes with the horizontal beam. 13. Compute the distance of the lowest part of the cable from
the left support.
Situation 2: The cantilever truss shown in the figure below 14. Compute the tension of the cable at the left support.
carries a vertical load of 2400 kN. The truss is supported by 15. Compute the tension of the cable at the right support.
bearings at A and B. If the bearing at B is then changed into a
roller support, Situation 6: The cross section shown in the figure is a
structural member known as a z-section.

4. Determine the magnitude of the vertical reaction at A.
5. Determine the magnitude of the reaction at B.
6. Determine the magnitude of the horizontal reaction at A.

16. Compute the cross-sectional area.
Situation 3: A 150 kg man stands on the middle rung of a 50 17. Compute the centroidal moment of inertia Ix.
kg ladder as shown. Assuming the floor and wall are perfectly 18. Compute the centroidal moment of inertia Iy.
smooth and that slipping is prevented by a string DE,
Situation 7: A stone is thrown vertically upwards and returns
to earth in 10 seconds.

19. What was its initial velocity?
20. How high did it go?
21. At what time did it travel until it reaches the highest
point?

Situation 8: Starting from rest, an elevator weighing 9000 N
attains an upward velocity of 5 m/s in 4 seconds with uniform
acceleration.

22. Which of the following most nearly gives the uniform
acceleration of the elevator.
7. Which of the following gives the reaction at B? 23. Which of the following most nearly gives the apparent
8. Which of the following gives the reaction at A? weight of a 600 N man standing inside the elevator
9. Which of the following gives the tension in the string DE? during its accent.
24. Which of the following most nearly gives the tension in
Situation 4: The framework shown consists of three members the supporting cable.
AB, AC, and AD whose lower ends are in the same horizontal
plane, 6 m vertically from A. A horizontal force of 1000 kN Situation 9: A ball is shot at a ground level at an angle of 60°
acting parallel to the x-axis is applied at A. with the horizontal with an initial velocity of 100 m/s.

25. Which of the following gives the height of the ball after 2
sec.
26. Which of the following gives the velocity of the ball after
2 seconds.
27. Which of the following gives the time it will take for the
ball to hit the ground.

Jemar Angelo G. Viloria, CE, SO2 Page 1 of 2

Situation 10: When the angular velocity of a 4 ft. diameter 19. 49.05 m/s
pulley is 3 rad/sec., the total acceleration of a point on its rim 20. 122.625 m
is 30 fps2. 21. 5 sec

28. Determine the normal acceleration of the pulley at this 22. 1.25 m/s2
instant. 23. 676.45 N
29. Determine the tangential acceleration of the pulley at 24. 10823.24 N
this instant.
30. Determine the angular acceleration of the pulley at this 25. 153.59m
instant. 26. 83.58 m/s
27. 17.66 sec
Situation 11: A boy slides down a water chute, starting from
rest from an elevation of 10 m. Neglect friction. 28. 18 fps2
29. 24 fps2
31. Which of the following gives the velocity at the end of the 30. 12 rad/s2
chute if it has an elevation of 2m.
32. Which of the following gives the velocity on entering the 31. 12.5284 m/s
water when the chute ends at an angle of 30° from the 32. 14.0071 m/s
horizontal. Assume that the water level is at elevation 33. 16.73 m
zero.
33. Which of the following gives the horizontal distance from 34. 1200.29 N
the end of the chute to the point where the boy enters the 35. 1.8434 m/s
water. 36. 2.1698 sec

Situation 12: A crate is placed on an inclined plane which 37. 2 m/s
makes an angle of 30° with the horizontal and is supported by 38. 4 m/s
a cable attached to the winch placed at the top of the inclined 39. 0.20
plane. The crate has a mass of 120 kg and the coefficient of
friction between it and the inclined plane are µs = 0.60 and
µk = 0.50.

34. What tension must the winch exert on the cable to start
the stationary crate sliding up the inclined plane?
35. What is the velocity of the crate when it has moved 2 m
up the inclined plane?
36. Determine the time for the crate to move 2 m up the
inclined plane.

Situation 13: Objects A and B with the same mass of 2 kg
undergo a direct central impact. Before the impact, A is
moving to the right with a velocity of 4 m/s and B is
stationary.

37. Determine the velocity of A after impact if the impact is
perfectly plastic.
38. Determine the velocity of B after impact if the impact is
perfectly elastic.
39. If the velocity of B after the impact is 2.4 m/s, compute
the coefficient of restitution.


Answers:
1. 125 kN
2. 2.3667 m
3. 36.8699°

4. 2400 kN upward
5. 2600 kN to the right
6. 3600 kN to the left

7. 689.56 kN
8. 2360.12 kN
9. 796.24 kN

10. 1118.03 kN C
11. 765.47 kN T
12. 522.91 kN T

13. 17.5736 m
14. 436.62 kN
15. 357.76 kN

16. 8.625 m2
17. 42.1172 m4
18. 15.4436 m4

Jemar Angelo G. Viloria, CE, SO2 Page 2 of 2