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1. Deep foundations use what to ensure that the building does not move
The concrete is casted in controled enviroments and then transported to the contruction job.
Snap Tie
CMU backed brick veneer
Pile

2. Name one of the types of foundations of tilt-up walls
Deck that the load is transferred to all four walls - and are generally of site-cast concrete.
Drilled pier footing
Glass fiber-reinforced concrete
Stiff

3. Name one of the types of foundations of tilt-up walls
Plortland cement-based mix
Continuous Stip footing
ground supported slabs (a.k.a. slabs-on-ground or slabs-on-grade) bear directly on a compacted ground with organic top soil removed. 2. elevated slabs rest on and are part of the structural frame of the building. Therefore they are also referred to a
Leveling Nut

4. Metal anchors are needed to transfer lateral loads to the backup wall in...
Live end
Collect and channel any water that gets into the air space back to the exterior
Some veneer walls
Zero (0)

5. Z-flashing is effective in...
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.
A horizontal butt join in cladding
Steel Joist Institute
A325

6. The Veneer is generally supported at each floor using steel _______
False
True
Shelf angles
Square - rectangular or round

7. What are the 3 types of furnaces?
EAF - OHF - BOF
Immediately above the flashing
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes
8 in to 30 in

8. Water-resistant exterior walls may be divided into three types What is one of these?
Stiff
Allow water washing of concrete after stripping the forms
Walls with overhangs
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs

9. A joint screen is an
L-shaped sheet metal or plastic element - that has a vertical leg that has openings to let the water out
2 to 4 ft
Columns
Wider space in an otherwize narrow joint

10. Girder is...
Surface tension
240 in =20ft
Site cast concrete slabs
Pieces sticking out away from the columes

11. Hot-dipped galvanized the steel member is immersed in a kettle of molten _____
Zinc
Hoizontal bridging members at the bottom of the joists - and horizontal briging members at the top of the joists
Type S
Fire-resitive - mold-free - sound-insulating - relatively inexpensive and durable.

12. Retempering of motar means...
Increase the strength of beam in shear
A ductile material
Adding water to the mortar
A reinforced-masonry frame

13. Unfinished bolts are made from
Chairs
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs
Carbon steel
7-5/8x7-5/8x15-5/8

14. A snug-Tight condition is _____
Connected members have been bolted together using spud wretch with the full force of a person
4 to 6 ft
Tougher pg 617
As a structure that is made entirely of linear elements - columns and beams.

15. Plastic tubes work ____ than wicks
Solid unit
Better
Live ends
24

16. Who designed the kaunthaus bregenz?
Portland cement stucco
Hoizontal bridging members at the bottom of the joists - and horizontal briging members at the top of the joists
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature
Peter Zumther

17. High-strength bolts have the same charterisitcs as ____
Steel Grade
E = Change in length / original length = d / L
36 ksi
A325

18. Twist-off Bolt method is...
Width - W - of Unit
Snap Tie
A special electric wrench is used that induces a predetermined torque bolt
False

19. A snug-Tight Condiction is also called...
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together
Bearing connection
Gravity load support to the veneer
M -S -N -O

20. ____________________ is gerneally preferred over filed welding?
Compressive strength
Bearing connection
Solid unit
field bolting of steel member

21. A Soft story is a _______
3000 psi
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks
Discontinuity of walls at foundations and requires a heavy transfer structure.
30 ft

22. What are some advantages of using concrete for Load Bearing Walls?
Vertical
Beams and Columns
Fire-resitive - mold-free - sound-insulating - relatively inexpensive and durable.
The exterior cladding in a pressure equalized wall

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24. Rain screen is...
The exterior cladding in a pressure equalized wall
Less than it's ultimate stress
Elevated Slabs
Open-Hearth furnace

25. W shapes the interior serfaces of the flanges are ____ and are ____ than the S shape
Collect and channel any water that gets into the air space back to the exterior
False
Residential
Parallel - wider

26. Arch welding is where
Hot Rolling
Barrier walls
3/5/8x2/1/4x7/5/8
Two terminals of high-voltage electric circuit are brought close together and creating a sutained spark across the space between the terminals

27. A typical bond beam is provided with
36 ksi
Horizontal reinforcement
Concrete hollow-core slabs - metal deck - or wood deck.
same

28. Joists between the walls and the floor slabs of a site-cast reinforced concrete bearing wall are _______ than those in msonry wall and precast-concrete hollow-core slab structure.
16'
Tougher pg 617
Compression
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it

29. The backup wall in brick veneer wall assemby consists of a...
Sanding smooth the insulation boards for EIFS
Reinforced concrete wall - CMU wall - wood or steel stud wall
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature
Exterior cladding and a inner backup wall and a intervening air space between the cladding and the backup

30. Stripping time is ___
24
Mid- to-high rise masonry bearing wall residential buildings
The time between the end of concreting and the removal of the forms
Plortland cement-based mix

31. What is the Fill Made up of?
36 ksi
Gravel
1in
Lug

32. The Term Tendons includes Strands
Plortland cement-based mix
Modular
Upward deflection of a beam to counter downward deflection by a dead load
True

33. the most commonly used strength of concrete for tilt-up
Greater than the cross-sectional area of the column
Columns
4000 psi
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall

34. Concrete is a(an) ____________ material
Elastic
Two piece anchor - or which one is embedded in CMU backup and the other is embedded in the Veneers mortar joint
Noncohesive Soils
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall

35. Panelized construction eliminates _____ - increasing on-site workers' safety
Steel pipes
Scaffolding
Zero (0)
every floor

36. A GFRC curtain wall panel consists of...
control joints accomodate the shrinkage of concrete. their purpose is to provide weakness in the slab at predetermined locations to force the slab to crack there.
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors
Two flange plates

37. Stress Formula
Gas or arc
Bed Joints
F = Force/Area = P (Force) /A (Area)
Molten Limestone that floats over molten Iron

38. The combination of bond Beams and Vertically reinforced CMU cells forms _______
A continuous concrete closure strip in the slab-on-ground.
A reinforced-masonry frame
3000 PSI
Flying forms

39. The width of an expansion joint is ___
At foundation level - over a lintel angle - over a shelf angle - under a window sill.
3/8
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs
Structural concrete fill

40. Walers
The Horizontal members of this image for formwork is called ______
Two flange plates
24
Low rise building 1 to 4 stories

41. The grade of A992 yields strength of ____ksi
SJI
50
Molten Limestone that floats over molten Iron
Cross bearing Walls plane

42. A bond Beam in a Masonry bearing wall building is required for structural reasons
The concrete is casted in controled enviroments and then transported to the contruction job.
At each floor level and roof level
annealed glass
Providing a anomalous slope in the surface.

43. What is the formula for stress?
16'
stress=force/area
American Standard Shape
A horizontal butt join in cladding

44. They provide a weakness in the slab at predetermined locations to force the slab to crak there and not somewhere else.
Surface tension
Lug
Depth of the joist in inches
Control joints in concrete do what?

45. The most common thickness for mortar is____
3/8
Thermal Mass
Steel fabricator
Capillary break

46. When lintel angels and shelf angles are combined in the same angle in a brick veneer clad building - the angle should be treated as a...
Horizontal reinforcement
tempered glass
Shelf angle anchored to the structural frame of the building
F = Force/Area = P (Force) /A (Area)

47. In a brick veneer assembly with a steel stud backup wall - the design of studs is generally governed by
Live ends
field bolting of steel member
The deflection of studs to withstand lateral loads
3/8 in

48. The units of modulus of elasticity are _______
25 ft in the field of the wall and 10 ft from a wall's corner.
Immediately about a flashing
1. decking 2. membrane 3. insulation 4. flashing
Psi - ksi - Pa - and GPa

49. two types of facotry-blended mixes for this finish coat are available - name some
Two terminals of high-voltage electric circuit are brought close together and creating a sutained spark across the space between the terminals
Acrylic polymer-based mix
Stretcher Face
Highly Crosive - Extreme

50. Steel reinforcement in concrete elements that are permanently exposed to earth - such as in footing - must have a minimum concrete cover of ____
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.
3in
7-5/8x7-5/8x15-5/8
0.0025