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1. How is a T section made?
By Splitting I sections in half
Ground-Supported slabs area____
Gravel
Stress at the point of failure

2. A fully cured Stucco is ___ thick
Cotton ropes - that absorb water from the airspace by capillary action and drain it to the outside.
7/8in
Wide-Flange section
Where the concrete absorbs the heat from the day and slowly releases it during the night

3. The primary reason for providing core hols in bricks is to...
Provide unifrom drying and firing of bricks
Actual strength / required strength
every floor
All exterior walls resisted the lateral loads individually

4. Shelf angles are...
Scaffolding
True
Supported by - and anchored to - the buildings structure
Is the Specified dimension plus one mortar joint thickness

5. Hot-dipped galvanized the steel member is immersed in a kettle of molten _____
Steel
T section
W16X25
Zinc

6. Is that the walls that are required for load-bearing purposes may also function as shear walls in addition to enclosing and dividing spaces.
Type N
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.
Masonry Bearing Wall Structure
20 ft

7. the coping on a masonry fence wall is generally...
Sloped on both sides
Glass fiber-reinforced concrete
Better
Low rise building 1 to 4 stories

8. Inside of Pressed concret the prestressing cables are called____
Elevated Slabs and arches - its formwork for arches
Strands
40 ft
Base Plate

9. The Term Tendons includes Strands
tempered glass
Encase steel sections in concrete - OR use a Spray-applied fire protection and gypsum board facing
EAF - BOF - OHF
True

10. The simplest and most effective weep hols is a _____
A ductile material
T section
Solid unit
Open - vertical mortar joint in the veneer.

11. Effloresecence
Individual elements - tha do not have continuity to resist diaphragm tension - and are anchored to to masonry beams.
Shores
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall
True

12. The use of ONe-way decks yields the following two types of bearing wall planes name one?
Reservoir
Longitudinal bearing Wall Plan.
W16X25
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.

13. Plymer based EIFS are also called...
F = Force/Area = P (Force) /A (Area)
Sanding smooth the insulation boards for EIFS
Reinforced concrete or steel frame structure
Soft-coat EIFS

14. The structural design of formwork design is the reponsibility of the
General contractor
Reservoir
A plastic cone and a loop at each end.
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall

15. In most masonry Beraing wall structures - the floors consist of precast_____
Concrete hollow-core slabs - metal deck - or wood deck.
Steel embeds in wall and slab welded together with steel plates
Zero (0)
The ground-floor slab of the building is too small to accommodate the precasting of all the walls

16. Molten iron from the blast furnace is converted to molten steel by one of three ways - which is the Three?
EAF - BOF - OHF
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.
Water Proofing
perpendicular

17. What is the Fill Made up of?
Rain-screen wall
Pipe Section
Gravel
Compression

18. The Two bottom Left ones are called _____
In plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck
Alkali resistant
Base Plate
Tube

19. _______ is the Most important Ferrous Metal
Wider space in an otherwize narrow joint
Steel
Each course consists of Strechers
Structural concrete fill

20. Which gives greater warning before failure - a brittle or ductile material?
A ductile material
Is embedded in the walls
Stiff
T section

21. Two-way deck is a ____
4 to 6 ft
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature
Is the Specified dimension plus one mortar joint thickness
Deck that the load is transferred to all four walls - and are generally of site-cast concrete.

22. A major benefit of a steel stud backup wall in a in a brick veneer assembly as compaired with a CMU backup wall is its ______
Mild
The deflection of studs to withstand lateral loads
Lighter weight
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks

23. Flashing must be accompanied by _____
Greater than the cross-sectional area of the column
Stiff
Type N
Weep holes

24. Where are deep foundations used?
Elevated Slabs
where soil is not strong.
True
shear force=force/area

25. Effloresecence
3in
The contained molds in which the concrete is cast
Stiff
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall

26. What is the priority of a girder - beam - and joist floor in order.
Site cast concrete slabs
1. Girder-primary 2. Beam-secondary 3. joist-tertiary
Strands
A large formwork assembly for concrete walls

27. The Term Tendons includes Strands
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together
G30 - G60 - G120
All exterior walls resisted the lateral loads individually
True

28. Modulus of elasticity
Discontinuity of walls at foundations and requires a heavy transfer structure.
2in
Stress / strain = E
Live end

29. A Blast Furnace is a ______
Asymmetry
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.
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.
Gravity load support to the veneer

30. Fine Grained soles are______ with water
Flexural and Shear.
Strands
Cohesive
Prevent the buckling of longitudinal column bars

31. A shelf angle in a brick veneer assembly must provide
Greater Floor to Floor height - COncentrated Loads - Complex layout floor and roof frame - and Fire protection
Gravity load support to the veneer
Vertical
Sanding smooth the insulation boards for EIFS

32. Galvanizing is...
Providing an impervious barrier to water
Pile
Cold-formed and light structural steel members - in zinc coating
A sufficient number and adequate lengths of walls must be provided in both principal directions of a building

33. W section I beam with a nominal depth of 16' and a weight of 50 lbs for 2 foot
shear force=force/area
W16X25
Flexural and Shear.
Connections are tightened to a high tensil stress so that shear resistance is provided though fiction between the connect surfaces

34. The arrows next to the Column and the base plate are indications of what?
Modular
Walls with overhangs
That it is welded
Exterior cladding - Air space - Flashing - Water resistant backup - and weep holes.

35. Laminated glass can be made with ____________ or annealed glass
The courses alternate between headers ans stretchers
tempered glass
Sloped on both sides
2in

36. If you put more lime in Mortar this increases
Workablity - water rentivity - and water tightness
4000 psi
2 1/2 hours of the initial preparations of mortar
Base Plate

37. Horizontal Mortar joints are also called ______
Steel Joist Institute
Continuious waterproof membrane which provides a continuous barrior that originates at the backup wall and penetrates through air space and cladding
Fibrous
Bed Joints

38. The Very middle one is called _____
I Section
Allow water washing of concrete after stripping the forms
The connections between the walls and the floor or roof decks
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

39. In a multisory building - shelf angles are typically used at...
Reservoir
Exposed aggregate finish by water washing - Abrasive blasting - acid etching
Each floor level
Getting Iron and Meling it - Then when the Ore is soft - Silica is beat out with a hammer

40. A typical anchor used with brick veneer and CMU backup wall assembly consist of...
Discontinuity of walls at foundations and requires a heavy transfer structure.
Drilled pier footing
Two piece anchor - or which one is embedded in CMU backup and the other is embedded in the Veneers mortar joint
Base Plate

41. A concrete member containing reinfrocing bars is called _____
Strip Footing
Strength of it - and weakens the strength of the wall.
Reinforced concrete member
Construction Joint

42. The most common thickness for mortar is____
Plortland cement-based mix
Wide-Flange section
Rain-screen wall
3/8

43. Repetitive floor planes are not only structurally more efficient but also _____
1in
Soon as possible to allow rapid turnover and reuse of the framework
More easily constructable.
Barrier walls

44. HSS can be what Shape?
Square - rectangular or round
3/8 greater than the multiples of the masonry unit module.
I Section
24in

45. Which type of EIF is most used?
Compression
PB pg 703
Scratch coat
Acrylic polymer-based mix

46. 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.
Portland cement stucco
Walls that are distributed almost uniformly in both principle and directions - walls at the uper floor that align with the walls at the lower floor - walls that are continuous up to the foundations
Tougher pg 617
Cotton ropes - that absorb water from the airspace by capillary action and drain it to the outside.

47. A drainage wall is a wall that consists of an
1. Girder-primary 2. Beam-secondary 3. joist-tertiary
Exterior cladding and a inner backup wall and a intervening air space between the cladding and the backup
Deck that spans between two opposite walls - and the gravity load on the deck is carried in one direction across the two opposite walls.
A continuous closure strip

48. Metal anchors are needed to transfer lateral loads to the backup wall in...
Acrylic polymer-based mix
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
Strip Footing
Some veneer walls

49. A tube is referred to as a ____
Bolting the member and rightening them with a spud wrench using full force
HHS
2.67 ft
Henry Bessemer in 1855

50. The test specimens used for determining the compressive strength of concrete in the united states is a...
Large - prefabricated - tunnel forms that allow walls and slabs to be cast simultaneously
Cylinder measuring 6 inches in diameter x 12 in high
PB pg 703
Type N