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1. The The Fourth Arrow is Pointing at
Shores
Exterior cladding - Air space - Flashing - Water resistant backup - and weep holes.
Exposed aggregate finish by water washing - Abrasive blasting - acid etching
Column Footing

2. A connection between a floor or roof and a wall must be adequate to sustain the 3 forces What is one of these forces?
2in pg 645
Out of Plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck
Lug
Stretcher Face

3. A ____ sized gap is needed between adjacent lengths to provide for the shelf angles expansion.
Better
FBX
Horizontal reinforcement
3/8 in

4. The simplest cellular-type plan is a_______
Force / Area
Individual elements - tha do not have continuity to resist diaphragm tension - and are anchored to to masonry beams.
Single-story - rectangular (box type)
HHS

5. The concrete tilt-up wall construction system is generally used in...
Angle section (L)
A continuous closure strip
Low rise building 1 to 4 stories
Iron ore and coke are mixed together in a Furnace

6. The structural integrity of a bearing wall building depends on ?
Brick ledge
10-13 feet.
Leveling Nut
The connections between the walls and the floor or roof decks

7. Where the concrete absorbs the heat from the day and slowly releases it during the night
Thermal Mass
The deflection of studs to withstand lateral loads
Floor decks
At each floor level and roof level

8. To protect reinforcment from corrosion - a minimum amount of concrete is ____
The size of the masonry that the manufacture would like to achieve.
3 in
Tougher pg 617
every floor

9. IN the steel joist designation 24LH10 the number 24 gives the _____
Bed Joints
Depth of the joist in inches
Capillary break
Grouted and reinforced with horizontal steel dowels

10. A 10 in deep joist can be used for a maximum span of _____
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall
Elevated Slabs
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.
240 in =20ft

11. During the time that the Empirical rules where in use - What is an important reason for progressively increasing wall thickness?
Open Headed joint
Stress at the point of failure
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.
To ensure stability against overturning by wind loads

12. What is ultimate stress?
Concave
Modular
8 and 30 in
Stress at the point of failure

13. The Horizontal Lines in the Middle are called ____
2in
Less than it's ultimate stress
Beams
Column Footing

14. A material that is weak in tension is...
Cylinder measuring 6 inches in diameter x 12 in high
To ensure stability against overturning by wind loads
Weak in shear
A36

15. Bricks and Blocks are called ____
Concrete masonry Units
Sanding smooth the insulation boards for EIFS
Live end
EAF - BOF - OHF

16. a curtain wall is separated form the structural fram of the building by a minimum of...
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it
2 in
Gas or arc
True

17. A GFRC curtain wall panel consists of...
A 100% solid unit
Open - vertical mortar joint in the veneer.
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors
A single 1/2 - 7 wire strand

18. 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?
Basic Oxygen Furnace
3000 psi
every floor
Brick ledge

19. This type of form work has gained favor in constructing high-rise reinforced-concrete bearing walls structures
Tunnel Form
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall
PB pg 703
That the thickness of exterior masonry walls progressively increase toward the lower floors.

20. In a tilt up wall constuction system - the walls are...
3/8
Stretcher Face
Water that may reach the backup by traveling over metal anchors or unintentional obstructions in the air space
Percast at the construction site

21. The minimum width of air space generally used between brick veneer and wood stud backup wall is...
Less than it's ultimate stress
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature
1in
Prevent the buckling of vertical reinforcement in columns

22. _______ is the Most important Ferrous Metal
Asymmetry
Steel
Cylinder measuring 6 inches in diameter x 12 in high
1. decking 2. membrane 3. insulation 4. flashing

23. Where the cutting of masontry units is discouraged - the wall dimensions are based on the masonry module. The module used in CMU walls is...
Elevated Slabs and arches - its formwork for arches
The Long part extending from the Foundation into the bed rock - as shown in this picture is called _____
That it is welded
8 in

24. Bricks that have core holes are ____
Width - W - of Unit
4000 psi
Walls with vertical reinforcement
Extruded Bricks

25. If you put less lime in Morar this decreases
Lapped members - clamped together with specially made clamps - and screw-based metal assembly
24
T section
Strength of it - and weakens the strength of the wall.

26. A 10 in deep joist can be used for a maximum span of _____
240 in =20ft
2
Average annual freezing cycle days - and average annual winter rainfall of the location
Deck that the load is transferred to all four walls - and are generally of site-cast concrete.

27. Floor deck is usally topped with a _____
FBX
Plortland cement-based mix
Beams and Columns
Structural concrete fill

28. Diagonal bridging may be used as an alternative to horizontal bridging to...
SJI
Device that consists of a mesh made of polymeric strands witch trap the droppings and suspend them permanently above the weep hole
3000 PSI
stablize joists

29. 1 kip = ____psi
20 ft
Getting Iron and Meling it - Then when the Ore is soft - Silica is beat out with a hammer
1kip=1000psi
HHS

30. Wicks consist of...
Water and resistant to puncture - tear - and abrasion
Cotton ropes - that absorb water from the airspace by capillary action and drain it to the outside.
Bearing connection
10-13 feet.

31. Per ASTM standars - facing bricks are classiffied as Types FBS - FBX. amd FBA. Which of these types has the most stringent requirements for dimensional tolerance - chippage - and warpage?
Extruded bricks that have through-through hols.
FBX
Residential
stress=force/area

32. What are the 3 types of furnaces?
Highly Crosive - Extreme
EAF - OHF - BOF
A conventional wood light frame building
Mock-up

33. Use of the load bearing masonry wall system became extinct for a while and was revived
structural frame
Brown coat
In plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck
After World War 2

34. __________ are vertical supports used in the forming of concrete.
3/8
Hollow structural section
Modular
Shores

35. A shear connection between a steel beam and a steel column can be made without _________ to the column
Iron ore melts and then is cooled to a solid state by casting it on a sand bed - the shape of the casting resembles a little of new born pigs.
connection beam flanges
Provide unifrom drying and firing of bricks
8

36. An isolated concrete slab-on-ground requires what types of joints?
Peter Zumther
Control joints - Isolation joints - Construction joints
Construction Joint
Compression

37. What is one of the Empirical rules?
That the thickness of exterior masonry walls progressively increase toward the lower floors.
16'
Alkali resistant
General contractor

38. Vertical Mortar joints are also called _____
Head Joints
Fire-resitive - mold-free - sound-insulating - relatively inexpensive and durable.
A Waffle Slab
Square - rectangular or round

39. Modulus of elasticity refers to how _____ a material is...
Lighter weight
Workablity - water rentivity - and water tightness
G30 - G60 - G120
Stiff

40. A snug-Tight Connection between framing members is obtained by
tempered glass
perpendicular
Encase steel sections in concrete - OR use a Spray-applied fire protection and gypsum board facing
Bolting the member and rightening them with a spud wrench using full force

41. This Grade of Steel is The most popular in use in buildings
Live ends
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together
Fibrous
A992

42. If you put less lime in Morar this decreases
Soon as possible to allow rapid turnover and reuse of the framework
True
Grouted Space
Strength of it - and weakens the strength of the wall.

43. Strain Formula
Steel Joist Institute
Depth of the joist in inches
E = Change in length / original length = d / L
CMU backed brick veneer

44. Hot-dipped galvanized the steel member is immersed in a kettle of molten _____
Zinc
Footing
SJI
Is embedded in the walls

45. Camber refers to...
Weep holes
Steel embeds in wall and slab welded together with steel plates
Upward deflection of a beam to counter downward deflection by a dead load
Column Footing

46. Clay is _______
False
cohesive
Soft-coat EIFS
Steel embeds in wall and slab welded together with steel plates

47. Unfinished bolts are made from
Glass fiber-reinforced concrete
Low rise building 1 to 4 stories
AISC Type I Connection
Carbon steel

48. The Slag is what?
25 ft in the field of the wall and 10 ft from a wall's corner.
Molten Limestone that floats over molten Iron
Greater than the cross-sectional area of the column
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors

49. the GFRC skin is obtained by
High-treated carbon steel
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.
Gravel
Spraying the mix over a mold

50. Rinforced-Masonry walls are ________
Steel pipes
Walls with vertical reinforcement
Compression
5 in