REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

SULTAN KUDARAT STATE UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
ISULAN CAMPUS, ISULAN, SULTAN KUDARAT

CE-512 REINFORCED CONCRETE 2
MIDTERM EXAMINATION PART 1


Name: _______________________ Course/Year: _____________ Score: ______

A. IDENTIFICATION. Identify the terms/specs defined below. Write your answers on
the space provided before each numeral. (2pts each)

____________1. Members primarily used to support axial compressive loads & have a ratio of
height to least lateral dimension of not less than 3.
____________2. A compression member that contains steel ties to confine the main column
which are spaced uniformly along the height of the column.
____________3. A compression member that contains spirals to hold the main longitudinal
bars in the column & to help increase the column ductility before failure.
____________4. A compression member reinforced longitudinally with structural steel shapes,
pipes, or tubing, with or without longitudinal bars and various types of lateral
reinforcements.
____________5. A column in which failure is due to the crushing of concrete or the yielding of
the steel bars under the full load capacity of the column.
____________6. A column in which buckling effects and slenderness ratio must be taken into
consideration in the design, thus reducing the load capacity of the column
relative to that of the short column.
____________7. A column in which the loads are assumed acting @ the center of column.
____________8. A column in which the loads are to be eccentric relative to the center of
columns.
____________9. A column in which the load is applied @ any point on the column section,
causing moment about both the x & y axes simultaneously.
____________10. The minimum number of longitudinal bars within rectangular ties.
____________11. The minimum clear spacing of longitudinal bars in tied columns.
____________12. What is the condition for the diameter of ties of tied column if the diameter
of longitudinal bars used is equal or less than 32mm.
____________13. What is the condition for the diameter of ties of tied column if the diameter
of longitudinal bars used is equal to 36mm;42mm;58mm; and bundled bars.
_______14. _______15. _______16. The conditions for vertical spacing of ties.
____________17. What is the minimum steel ratio for longitudinal reinforcement bars.
____________18. What is the maximum steel ratio for longitudinal reinforcement bars.
____________19. The min. number of longitudinal bars in compression members for bars
enclosed by spirals.
____________20. The min. diameter of spirals.
____________21. The min. clear spacing of spirals.
____________22. The max. clear spacing of spirals.
____________23. The point through which the resultant column load must pass to produce
uniform strain in failure.
____________24. The distance from the load to the plastic centroid of the column.
____________25. A chart used to obtain the value of effective length factor k.

B. Write down the formulas of the following: (3 pts each)

1. The maximum factored capacity of short tied column (specify the value of phi
based on NSCP 2001).
2. The trial area for short tied column.
3. The maximum factored capacity of short spiral column (specify the value of phi
based on NSCP 2001).
4. The trial area for short spiral column.
5. The minimum spiral ratio.
6. The spacing of spiral.
7. The maximum factored capacity of short composite column considering the
longitudinal bars.
8. The maximum factored capacity of short composite column neglecting the
longitudinal bars.
9. The minimum thickness of steel pipe filled with concrete.
10. The neutral axis for balanced condition.
11. The depth of compression block for balanced condition.
12. The Breslers Reciprocal Load Equation.
13. The maximum factored capacity of bi-axially loaded column.
14. The Magnified Moment for frames braced against sidesway assuming that the
moment due to lateral load (sway) is zero.
15. The Magnified Moment for frames braced against sidesway.
16. The radius of gyration for rectangular compression members.
17. The radius of gyration for circular compression members.
18. The moment magnification factor that takes into account the effect of member
curvature in a frame braced against sidesway.
19. Moment magnification factor that takes into account the effect of member
curvature in a frame braced against sidesway
20. Eulers critical buckling load.
21. Modification factor C
m
for members without transverse loads between
supports.
22. Conservative formula of EI.
23. The modulus of elastic of normal weight concrete.
24. The Maximum Magnified Moment for frames unbraced against sidesway.
25. Moment magnification factor that takes into account the lateral drift of a
column caused by lateral and gravity.

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