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1. A GFRC curtain wall panel consists of...
Noncombustible and is similar to fiberglass - manufacture of insulation.
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors
Henry Bessemer in 1855
Strip Footing

2. According to building codes - plain concrete (concrete without steel reinforement is not permitted in new construction.
Connected members have been bolted together using spud wretch with the full force of a person
Extruded Bricks
Mild
False

3. The Dark things in the Corner are ____
Hoizontal bridging members at the bottom of the joists - and horizontal briging members at the top of the joists
Control joints - Isolation joints - Construction joints
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall
Columns

4. 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?
90 to 180 degress
Some interior concrete slabs-on-ground
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall
Brick ledge

5. What is the First arrow point at?
Exterior cladding - Air space - Flashing - Water resistant backup - and weep holes.
L-shaped sheet metal or plastic element - that has a vertical leg that has openings to let the water out
Leveling Nut
Upward deflection of a beam to counter downward deflection by a dead load

6. CMU is _____
Metals that do not contain Metals
same
Cinder Block
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks

7. In most masonry Beraing wall structures - the floors consist of precast_____
Type S
Concrete hollow-core slabs - metal deck - or wood deck.
Support Pylons
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

8. StiffBacks
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it
Low-rise buildings generally up to 50 ft
The Vertical lumber on this image of formwork is called ______
Copper and stainless steel

9. The freeze-thaw resistance of bricks has been found to be a function of the
Roof and Floor
S50X30
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks
Elevated Slabs and arches - its formwork for arches

10. The Tendons used for prestressing a PT concrete slab on ground gernally consist of...
Wood and Plywood - Steel - Aluminum - Glass Fiber
A single 1/2 - 7 wire strand
Drilled pier footing
Flying forms

11. A doubly rienforced beam is one in which
A sufficient number and adequate lengths of walls must be provided in both principal directions of a building
W - S - HP - M
Reinfocing bars are provided at the top and bottom of the beams
Grouted Space

12. The Two bottom Left ones are called _____
Tube
3 in
Prefabricated and collapsible inverted- L forms that allow the walls and slabs for a floor to be cast simultaneously - usually in a 7 day cycle.
Drilled pier footing

13. Aluminum is commonly used as form and shore material because___
Lighter Weight - Easier Erection
Is the Specified dimension plus one mortar joint thickness
The Framework
Its strenth-to-weight ration is high - which reduces the weight of forms and shores.

14. The Horizontal Lines in the Middle are called ____
125psi
All exterior walls resisted the lateral loads individually
30 ft
Beams

15. A concrete member containing reinfrocing bars is called _____
8 and 30 in
Reinforced concrete member
MOre Crrosive Enviroment - Hot
At foundation level - over a lintel angle - over a shelf angle - under a window sill.

16. In connecting the upper-Column shaft with a lower-column shaft in a multistory steel frame building - we generally require?
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall
Adding water to the mortar
Snap Tie
Two flange plates

17. What are some advantages of using concrete for Load Bearing Walls?
Fire-resitive - mold-free - sound-insulating - relatively inexpensive and durable.
Grouted and reinforced with horizontal steel dowels
I Section
3000 psi

18. one piece - corrigated anchor or an adjustable - two piece wire anchor should not be spaced more than ____
32 in on center and not more than 18 in vertically
windward face
Scratch coat
MOre Crrosive Enviroment - Hot

19. The use of ______ concrete is customary
Cross bearing Walls plane
True
4000 psi
The courses alternate between headers ans stretchers

20. A K-series steel joist that is 20 in deep cannot space more than ____
2in
40 ft
4
Getting Iron and Meling it - Then when the Ore is soft - Silica is beat out with a hammer

21. Wicks consist of...
Zero (0)
Roof and Floor
Cotton ropes - that absorb water from the airspace by capillary action and drain it to the outside.
2in

22. Plastic tubes work ____ than wicks
A felexible connection that allows the ends of the beam to rotate under the load.
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature
Better
The Horizontal members of this image for formwork is called ______

23. How is a T section made?
Perpendicular to the main axis of the building.
By Splitting I sections in half
Immediately above
General contractor

24. The Top Left hand Corner is a ____ Beam
3/8
Roof and Floor
laminated glass - so that glass shards don't rain down death.
Angle section (L)

25. The most common used size of brick is...
Footing
3/8 in
3/5/8x2/1/4x7/5/8
Two piece anchor - or which one is embedded in CMU backup and the other is embedded in the Veneers mortar joint

26. Effloresecence
=change in length/original length
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors

27. During the erection of concrete tilt up walls - a gap is left between the bottom of a wall panel the top of the footing. The gap is approximately
2in
Chairs
field bolting of steel member
Lighter weight

28. _____ are generally kept at the construction site and become the basis for judgement of all panels produced by the precast plant
Wood and Plywood - Steel - Aluminum - Glass Fiber
Extruded Bricks
Prefabricated and collapsible inverted- L forms that allow the walls and slabs for a floor to be cast simultaneously - usually in a 7 day cycle.
Mock-up

29. If you put more lime in Mortar this increases
Control joints - Isolation joints - Construction joints
Workablity - water rentivity - and water tightness
Percast at the construction site
1in

30. Joist spacing is generally between ___ and ___ for floors
2 to 4 ft
Cylinder measuring 6 inches in diameter x 12 in high
W16X25
Carbon steel

31. A masonry unit that has no voids is referred to as
American Standard Shape
Its strenth-to-weight ration is high - which reduces the weight of forms and shores.
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks
A 100% solid unit

32. A shelf angle must be anchored to the building's...
4 to 6 ft
connection beam flanges
structural frame
The size of the masonry that the manufacture would like to achieve.

33. IRA is a measure of the Tensile Stregth of a brick?
field bolting of steel member
False
Basic Oxygen Furnace
Steel embeds in wall and slab welded together with steel plates

34. What is the first thing a contractor does at a construction site?
Acrylic polymer-based mix
excavation
Molded bricks
The Long part extending from the Foundation into the bed rock - as shown in this picture is called _____

35. In a PT concrete slab on groud - the tendons are stressed from the
Percast at the construction site
Bearing connection
Live end
F = Force/Area = P (Force) /A (Area)

36. Water-resistant exterior walls may be divided into three types What is one of these?
Drainage Walls
20 ft
A large formwork assembly for concrete walls
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

37. Details of connection between Steel Framing members are generally prepared by the buildings
annealed glass
Steel fabricator
Support Pylons
Bolting the member and rightening them with a spud wrench using full force

38. A masonry unit has 20% voids is referred to as a...
Columns
Horizontal reinforcement
At each floor level and roof level
Solid unit

39. Water-resistant exterior walls may be divided into three types What is one of these?
Two flange plates
Control joints - Isolation joints - Construction joints
Barrier walls
Molten Limestone that floats over molten Iron

40. What is one of the Empirical rules?
That the thickness of exterior masonry walls progressively increase toward the lower floors.
Some veneer walls
Grouted Space
Noncohesive Soils

41. What are some advantages of using concrete for Load Bearing Walls?
Two piece anchor - or which one is embedded in CMU backup and the other is embedded in the Veneers mortar joint
2in
Concrete masonry Units
Fire-resitive - mold-free - sound-insulating - relatively inexpensive and durable.

42. In a brick veneer assembly vertical expansion joints should be provided at a maximum distance of...

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43. in terms of water infiltration - the exterior walls in historical buildings functioned as
Carbon steel
Fibrous
True
Barrier walls

44. Stripping time is ___
Out of Plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck
Approximately equal to the combined cost of concrete and steel
The time between the end of concreting and the removal of the forms
5000 psi

45. A load-bearing wall structure works best when the floor plan of the building has
As a structure that is made entirely of linear elements - columns and beams.
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
52-72
24

46. The Slag is what?
Control joints in concrete do what?
Molten Limestone that floats over molten Iron
At foundation level - over a lintel angle - over a shelf angle - under a window sill.
Noncohesive Soils

47. Camber refers to...
Upward deflection of a beam to counter downward deflection by a dead load
Support Pylons
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors
Wide-Flange section

48. a curtain wall is separated form the structural fram of the building by a minimum of...
Ground-Supported slabs area____
2 in
Bolting the member and rightening them with a spud wrench using full force
Supported by - and anchored to - the buildings structure

49. Standard CMU size
Zinc
A small opening at the bottom of cladding
True
7-5/8x7-5/8x15-5/8

50. Two-way deck is a ____
Deck that the load is transferred to all four walls - and are generally of site-cast concrete.
The time between the end of concreting and the removal of the forms
The deflection of studs to withstand lateral loads
High-treated carbon steel