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This section includes 8 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Prestressed Concrete Structures knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Concrete is weak in? |
| A. | Compression |
| B. | Tension |
| C. | Loading |
| D. | Bending |
| Answer» C. Loading | |
| 2. |
Development of early cracks in reinforced concrete is due to ___________ |
| A. | Strains of steel |
| B. | Stresses of steel |
| C. | Ultimate load |
| D. | Bending of steel |
| Answer» B. Stresses of steel | |
| 3. |
In reinforced concrete members, the prestress commonly introduced is ___________ |
| A. | Tensioning steel reinforcement |
| B. | Tensioning wood reinforcement |
| C. | Tensioning rings |
| D. | Tensioning plates |
| Answer» B. Tensioning wood reinforcement | |
| 4. |
The attempt to introduce permanently acting forces in concrete to resist the elastic forces is ___________ |
| A. | Prestressing |
| B. | Loading |
| C. | Pre-straining |
| D. | Bending |
| Answer» B. Loading | |
| 5. |
The earliest examples of wooden barrel construction by force-fitting of metal bands and shrink-fitting of metal tiers of wooden wheels indicate the art of ___________ |
| A. | Prestressing |
| B. | Tensioning |
| C. | Stress |
| D. | Straining |
| Answer» B. Tensioning | |
| 6. |
The prestressing of concrete member is carried out to reduce ___________ |
| A. | Compressive stresses |
| B. | Tensile stresses |
| C. | Bending stresses |
| D. | Shear force |
| Answer» B. Tensile stresses | |
| 7. |
In reinforced concrete members the prestress is commonly introduced by ___________ |
| A. | Tensioning the steel reinforcement |
| B. | Tendons |
| C. | Shortening of concrete |
| D. | Rings |
| Answer» B. Tendons | |
| 8. |
The phenomena of development of internal tensile stresses in a concrete member by means of tensioning devices are called as ____________ |
| A. | Pre-tensioning |
| B. | Post-tensioning |
| C. | Prestressing of concrete |
| D. | Thermoelectric prestressing |
| Answer» D. Thermoelectric prestressing | |