STEELWORK / CON4334
Past papers

2023 past paper: complete solution navigator

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Chinese–English terminology

Original paper: Pastpaper/22ENGTY033.pdf. All 16 printed subquestions have a teaching solution linked below. Keep the original diagram beside the calculation and attempt the question before opening the compact answer.

Printed examination format

Time allowed: 2 hours. Answer compulsory Section A (40 marks) and any TWO Section B questions (30 marks each). Required total: 100 marks; 130 marks are offered. The printed marks below are official question allocations. No official worked solutions or marking schemes were supplied. Every model solution, method-mark suggestion and exam strategy on this website is independently written teaching guidance.

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Planning suggestion, not an official rule: allow 8 minutes to read/select, 42 minutes for Section A, 32 minutes for each selected Section B question, and 6 minutes to check units, omissions and conclusions.

Section A Q1: floor beams and short theory

Section B Q2: connections

PartTask / full teaching solutionPrinted marks
b 2-aiDouble welded angle tension capacity6
b 2-aiiFinal weld lengths9
b 2-biBolt shear and tension capacities5
b 2-biiBracket bolt adequacy10

Section B Q3: columns

PartTask / full teaching solutionPrinted marks
b 3-aColumn class4
b 3-bColumn cross-section capacity6
b 3-cColumn member buckling20

Section B Q4: unrestrained beams

PartTask / full teaching solutionPrinted marks
b 4-aBeam shear and moment2
b 4-bBeam LTB with support restraints14
b 4-cBeam LTB with added midspan restraint14

Review an attempt

  1. Mark incorrect decisions separately from arithmetic slips: wrong load factor, wrong support span, wrong restraint, wrong table, wrong units.
  2. Use the detailed solution to find the first wrong line; redo everything downstream without copying.
  3. Close the original solution and change one input. Predict whether the result should rise or fall before calculating.
  4. Record conditional assumptions and missing data. A plausible answer must not become a fabricated official answer.

Graduated practice and unseen variants · A new timed mock in the supplied format