In a small gantry for unloading goods from a railway waggon, it is proposed to carry the lifting tackle on a steel joist, 24 cm by 10 cm, of weight 320 N/m, supported at the ends, and of effective length 5 m. The equivalent dead load on the joist due to the load to be raised is 30 kN, and this may act at any point of the middle 4 m. By considering the fiber stress and the shear, examine whether the joist is suitable. The flanges are 10 cm by 1.2 cm, and the web is 0.75 cm thick. The allowable fiber stress is 1 15 MN/m2, and the allowable shearing stress 75 MN/m2.