List of top Civil Structural and Transport Engineering Questions on Principles of the design of machine elements such as bolted, riveted and welded joints

Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Chlorides should be absent in drinking water.
Reason (R): Chlorides give salty taste to water.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

A tie bar of 100 mm width and 16 mm thickness is to be welded to another plate using "8 mm fillet weld" (as shown in figure below). If the tensile capacity of plate is 240 kN and the shear stress in weld is 110.0 N/mm$^2$, the minimum overlap required will be: