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GATE Civil Engineering (CE) 2018 Shift 1 Solved Paper

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A steel column of ISHB 350 @ 72.4kg/m is subjected to a factored axial compressive load of 2000kN. The load is transferred to a concrete pedestal of grade M20 through a square base plate. Consider bearing of concrete as 0.45fck, where fck is the characteristic strength of concrete. Using limit state method and neglecting the self weight of base plate and steel column, the length of a side of the base plate to be provided is

39cm
42cm
45cm
48cm

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