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Use the Steel Construction Manual to determine the plastic moment capacity, Mp, of a W18x106 beam made of A36 steel.

Use the Steel Construction Manual to determine the plastic moment capacity, Mp, of a W24x131 beam made of A572 Grade 42 steel.

The beam is braced at A, B, and C. Determine the lateral-torsional-buckling modification factor, Cb, for the unbraced length AB. Let P = 85 kip, L1 = 12 ft, and L2 = 8 ft.

Which of the following was Ida B. Wells’s purpose as a journalist and lecturer?

Although suburban communities were segregated in the 1950s, today, communities such as Levittown on Long Island are completely racially integrated. 

Using ASD, determine the nominal flexural strength of a W14x53 beam made from A992 steel that has lateral support at 3-ft intervals. Assume Cb = 1.0.

While preparing for Brown v. Board of Education, Thurgood Marshall decided that the time had come to attack the “separate but equal” doctrine itself. 

A W8x31 beam made from A992 steel would be classified as _______.

The National Organization for Women (NOW) campaigned for which of the following? 

Holes should only be placed in a beam web at sections of _______ .