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1. Clay is _______
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature
Adding water to the mortar
W-shaped beams - Steel joints
cohesive

2. The most commonly used steel for framming menbers is_______
Construction Joint
Veneer wall
W-Shaped Columns and Beams
Sloped - thinner

3. Plain-Masonry walls are _______
More easily constructable.
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.
Tension
Open-Hearth furnace

4. What does HHS stand for?
Scratch coat
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.
Connections are tightened to a high tensil stress so that shear resistance is provided though fiction between the connect surfaces
Hollow structural section

5. A wall footing is also called _____
Solid unit
Strip Footing
0.0025
Width - W - of Unit

6. The most water tight joint is ____
True
All the walls of the building have been erected - all the walls have been anchored to the slab-on-ground - the roof structure is complete
All the walls of the building have been erected - all the walls have been anchored to the slab-on-ground - the roof structure is complete
Concave

7. Where the concrete absorbs the heat from the day and slowly releases it during the night
No. 3 or No. 4 bars
Thermal Mass
Low rise building 1 to 4 stories
AISC Type I Connection

8. Weep holes must be provided ______ to the flashing
Average annual freezing cycle days - and average annual winter rainfall of the location
Control joints in concrete do what?
Immediately above
Control joints - Isolation joints - Construction joints

9. In an English-bonded Wall
A continuous concrete closure strip in the slab-on-ground.
Noncohesive Soils
Each course consists of Strechers
The courses alternate between headers ans stretchers

10. Shores are used for...
True
Elevated Slabs and arches - its formwork for arches
Exterior cladding and a inner backup wall and a intervening air space between the cladding and the backup
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11. In a steel fram building - the secondary framing member for a roof or floor generally consist of ____ and ____
Open-Hearth furnace
W-shaped beams - Steel joints
1kip=1000psi
8

12. In specifying the dimensions of a masonry unit - which dimension is states last?
Roof and Floor
Length - L - of unit
Site cast concrete slabs
That it is welded

13. A 1 1/2 depression is commonly created in foundation to receive the first course of the veneer - What is the name of the ledge?
W16X25
Brick ledge
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs
Type S

14. a curtian wal is typically used in buildings whose structural system consists of...
Reinforced concrete or steel frame structure
Its strenth-to-weight ration is high - which reduces the weight of forms and shores.
2 1/2 in
Metals that do not contain Metals

15. Where the cutting of masontry units is discouraged - the wall dimensions are based on the masonry module. The module used in CMU walls is...
shear force=force/area
Modular
A single 1/2 - 7 wire strand
8 in

16. Modulus of elasticity refers to how _____ a material is...
annealed glass
Steel pipes
Pile
Stiff

17. How high off the does glass have to remain tempered?

18. S-Shape is also called ____
3 in
Drilled pier footing
stress=force/area
American Standard Shape

19. Is directly underneith the concrete Slab
Mild
Angle section (L)
Water Proofing
Grade 50 steel

20. Joists Girders has ______ than a Joist
Heavier members and spans from column to column
To ensure the absence of tensile stress in masonry - the resultant of gravity load and the wind load at any horizontal section of the wall must remain within the middle third of the section.
Comressive Strength = load at failure / area = ksi or psi
Grouted Space

21. A material that is weak in tension is...
Weak in shear
Roof and Floor
Lintel angle
Each floor level

22. In a brick veneer assembly - weep holes are required at...
Is the Specified dimension plus one mortar joint thickness
Immediately above the flashing
Plastic - and Steel chairs with plastic-coated feet
36 ksi

23. a construction join in a concrete slab on ground is required if the concrete in the slab connot be placed in one continuous operation
Pipe Section
True
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall
Reinforced concrete wall - CMU wall - wood or steel stud wall

24. Bricks are anchored to the frame on every floor or every other floor?
Gravity load support to the veneer
Molten Limestone that floats over molten Iron
Gravity - wind and surface tension
every floor

25. High-strength bolts have the same charterisitcs as ____
Compressive strength and Flexural tensile bond strength
Deck that the load is transferred to all four walls - and are generally of site-cast concrete.
A325
field bolting of steel member

26. List the Mortar types from greatest Comprssive strength to The lowest compressive strength
Greater Floor to Floor height - COncentrated Loads - Complex layout floor and roof frame - and Fire protection
M -S -N -O
Beams
Provide unifrom drying and firing of bricks

27. The Horizontal Lines in the Middle are called ____
Beams
Joists
Connected members have been bolted together using spud wretch with the full force of a person
Veneer wall

28. The thicker the wall the larger the _______ needs to be
Reservoir
Lighter weight
Elevated Slabs
Tube

29. Wicks consist of...
Cotton ropes - that absorb water from the airspace by capillary action and drain it to the outside.
Encase steel sections in concrete - OR use a Spray-applied fire protection and gypsum board facing
4000 psi
Zero (0)

30. The 'perfect' amount of carbon is from .01 to 1.7% - this metal is called ______
Force / Area
Continuous Stip footing
1/2 to 3/4 thick
Steel

31. OHF full name is?
Footing
Open-Hearth furnace
AISC Type II Connection
The concrete is cast at the site

32. The Bottom Right hand Picture is a ______
A992
Within the plane of the veneer
Lighter member that spans between the girders
Pipe Section

33. Iron is _______ in character - unlike steel
Length - L - of unit
Isolation Joints
False
Fibrous

34. Height adjustablilty in shores made of dimension lumber is provided through___
1. decking 2. membrane 3. insulation 4. flashing
Lapped members - clamped together with specially made clamps - and screw-based metal assembly
Live end
Scratch coat

35. What is the formula for stress?
Brown coat
field bolting of steel member
stress=force/area
laminated glass - so that glass shards don't rain down death.

36. What is one of the Empirical rules?
Reinforced concrete or steel frame structure
SJI
Favorably
That the thickness of exterior masonry walls progressively increase toward the lower floors.

37. In a cross-bearing wall structure - the load bearing walls are...
A suitable base on which the roof or floor trusses and joist can be supported ans anchored
connection beam flanges
Perpendicular to the main axis of the building.
1/2 to 3/4 thick

38. In a brick veneer assembly - weep holes are required at...
Each course Consists of alternate headers and stretchers
Type N
Immediately above the flashing
Concave

39. Ferrous Metals are...
Failure stress / allowable stress
Metals that contain Iron
Lighter Weight - Easier Erection
Highly Crosive - Extreme

40. A GFRC curtain wall panel consists of...
Flying forms
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors
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Length - L - of unit

41. The structural design of formwork design is the reponsibility of the
Gas or arc
Failure stress / allowable stress
General contractor
Increase the strength of beam in shear

42. List the Mortar types from greatest Comprssive strength to The lowest compressive strength
Pipe Section
M -S -N -O
Actual strength / required strength
I Section

43. Suction that pulls wind driven rain into the airspace of a drainage wall takes place on the __________ of the wall
windward face
Shores
Iron ore and coke are mixed together in a Furnace
True

44. A rain screen classing system addresses the issue of water penetration due to...
Lug
Unequal distribution of air pressure on the exterior of the wall and in the airspace between the cladding an d the backup wall.
AISC Type I Connection
Grouted Space

45. Rest on and are part of the structural frame of the building - they are used for 2nd and higher floors.
2in
Beams
Temporary structural steel bracing members can also be used to strengthen an opening - they are attached to a panel before lifting and removed after the panel's erections Pg. 620
Elevated Slabs

46. Basic Oxygen Furnace did what?
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it
Open Headed joint
To ensure stability against overturning by wind loads
Exterior cladding - Air space - Flashing - Water resistant backup - and weep holes.

47. What is an Isolation Joint?

48. The oldest Method is also called Turn-of-Nut methos is where...
Isolation Joints
Footing
The exterior cladding in a pressure equalized wall
The bolt shank and nut are marked after the joint has been snugged. Then a specific amount of rotation is induced in the nut with repect to the bolt - generally 1/3 to a full turn beyond the snug-tight condition

49. If you put more lime in Mortar this increases
Bed Joints
Isolation Joints
Workablity - water rentivity - and water tightness
Huge - steel cylinder whose interior is lined with refractory bricks - and the materials are stacked on the inside and then heated to mix them all together.

50. Panelized construction eliminates _____ - increasing on-site workers' safety
Grouted and reinforced with horizontal steel dowels
Scaffolding
Alkali resistant
The Framework