Unlimited Exam in Sharjah Municipality

1. What is the deference between stress and strain?

2. What is the deference between elastic and plastic?
3. What is deference between linear and non-linear? What is the deference between ductile
and brittle materials?
4. What is modulus of elasticity, shear modulus and Poisson’s ratio?
5. What is factor R?
6. What is natural period, T?
7. What is the difference between strength and stiffness?
8. What are the types of irregularity in the building?
9. What is the difference between the soft and weak story?
10. What are the types of design due to seismic load?
11. What is the equation of the base shear in the equivalent static method?
12. What is the meaning of every term in the base shear equation?
13. What is P-∆ analysis?
14. What is sequential construction analysis?
15. Why do we need to assign modifiers for building elements?
16. What is the difference between SRSS, CQC and ABS modal combination?
17. How can we check the torsional irregularity?
18. How can we know the type of the soil?
19. What is the maximum value of Ax (Amplification Factor-Horizontal Torsion Moment)? and
what is the equation used to calculate it?
20. What is the difference between static and dynamic analysis method?
21. What is the difference between time history and response spectrum analysis?
22. How can we know that there is a soft story in the building from Etabs?
23. How can we know that there is a weak story in the building from Etabs?
24. How to increase ductility?
25. What is the difference between the building frame system and dual system?
26. What is the damping ratio? what are the values for concrete and steel?
27. What are the special topics between towers?
28. What can we do if the pile has tension force?
29. If you have torsion in the 1st mode, how can you solve this?
30. How can we calculate the distance between towers?
31. What is the effect of wind and seismic on building?
32. Why do we need the mode shapes?
33. When do we need the transfer slab? What are the main point you need to check?
34. what is the outrigger? What are the advantages and disadvantages?
35. What is the difference between drift and drift ratio?
36. What is the solution if the drift is unsafe?
37. What are the types of the seismic frames? What is the difference between them?
38. If you have core and moment resisting frame, which of the two has more stiffness? More
ductility? Will create more base shear?
39. What is the static-nonlinear seismic analysis?
40. Where can we put the mechanical floor in the high rise building?
41. What is the information that you have to check in the soil report? What should be the depth
of the borehole?
42. What is the role of the outrigger in the high rise building?
43. What is the effect of the vertical component of the seismic force?
44. The value of the Ca and Cv will be depend on what?
45. What is the output from push-over analysis?
46. Examiner will give different plans and ask you check if the location of the seismic system is
OK or Not?