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1. Rest on and are part of the structural frame of the building - they are used for 2nd and higher floors.
field bolting of steel member
Elevated Slabs
Bolting the member and rightening them with a spud wrench using full force
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors

2. The concrete tilt-up wall construction system is generally used in...
Compressive strength
Concave
Low rise building 1 to 4 stories
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes

3. Wicks or Tubes need a spacing of ____ to go with open-head joints
Lateral load support to the veneer
Increase the strength of beam in shear
Gas or arc
16 in

4. Bricks are anchored to the frame on every floor or every other floor?
every floor
structural frame
Construction Joint
Collect and channel any water that gets into the air space back to the exterior

5. Hooks in bars are produced by turning the bars through
Hoizontal bridging members at the bottom of the joists - and horizontal briging members at the top of the joists
Hollow structural section
90 to 180 degress
Modular

6. Plain-Masonry walls are _______
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.
Highly Crosive - Extreme
5000 psi
they extend the entire thickness of the slab - they isolate the slab from the building's structural componants.

7. Extend the entire thickness of the slab and they ensure that the slab is isolated from the buildings structural componenst so that their movments is not transfered to the slab
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
Isolation Joints
W-shaped beams - Steel joints
American Standard Shape

8. The test specimens used for determining the compressive strength of concrete in the united states is a...
Ground-Supported slabs area____
Residential
Cylinder measuring 6 inches in diameter x 12 in high
The time between the end of concreting and the removal of the forms

9. The first coat of stucco is called...
American Standard Shape
Scratch coat
The contained molds in which the concrete is cast
Barrier walls

10. A bond beam in masonry bearing wall building
Is embedded in the walls
Lateral load support to the veneer
The deflection of studs to withstand lateral loads
W-Shaped Columns and Beams

11. Reinforcement increases a masonry's walls ________ and _______ strength
Exterior cladding and a inner backup wall and a intervening air space between the cladding and the backup
Flexural and Shear.
Control joints - Isolation joints - Construction joints
Workablity - water rentivity - and water tightness

12. S-Shapes are mostly used for_____
Pipe Section
Portland cement stucco
Cranes and rails
4

13. What is the 2 arrow?
Tube
Base Plate
Concrete hollow-core slabs - metal deck - or wood deck.
Greater than the cross-sectional area of the column

14. A snape Tie consits of...
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
W-shaped beams - Steel joints
The deflection of studs to withstand lateral loads
A plastic cone and a loop at each end.

15. A Column Spice is approximately ___ ft above the lower floor so that the erector can use the floor as a platform to make the connection.
Grouted Space
4
24in
Hollow structural section

16. 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?
FBX
Concrete masonry Units
50
1in

17. a curtain wall is separated form the structural fram of the building by a minimum of...
24in
field bolting of steel member
2 in
Cold-formed and light structural steel members - in zinc coating

18. PC curtain wall panels are removed from the form as____
The concrete is cast at the site
Soon as possible to allow rapid turnover and reuse of the framework
Capillary break
American Standard Shape

19. Regarless of the type of footing - the bottom of panel is typically about ____ above top of the footing?
Provide unifrom drying and firing of bricks
20 ft
2in
Percast at the construction site

20. To protect reinforcment from corrosion - a minimum amount of concrete is ____
3 in
2 in
FBX
Support Pylons

21. Capillary break is a...
Pile
Wider space in an otherwize narrow joint
That the thickness of exterior masonry walls progressively increase toward the lower floors.
Bed Joints

22. Iron is _______ in character - unlike steel
HHS
Unequal distribution of air pressure on the exterior of the wall and in the airspace between the cladding an d the backup wall.
Fibrous
Brick ledge

23. The Very middle one is called _____
I Section
Head Joints
Dead End
Individual elements - tha do not have continuity to resist diaphragm tension - and are anchored to to masonry beams.

24. the most commonly used strength of concrete for the slab-on ground in concrete tilt- up wall buildings is...
Joists
Ties are generally not provided in a concrete wall
4000 psi
Pink

25. The term FLying form refers to...
Force / Area
Within the plane of the veneer
A large formwork assembly for concrete walls
4000 psi

26. In a brick veneer assembly - flashing is required
Basic Oxygen Furnace
Sloped - thinner
Supported by - and anchored to - the buildings structure
At foundation level - over a lintel angle - over a shelf angle - under a window sill.

27. G30 is for _____ corrosive enviroment
False
To ensure stability against overturning by wind loads
Elevated Slabs and arches - its formwork for arches
Mildly

28. Unfinished bolts are made from
Carbon steel
Angle section (L)
cohesive
A992

29. A common type of Form Tie is ____
Surface tension
Snap Tie
A continuous concrete closure strip in the slab-on-ground.
Zero (0)

30. a 20-ft high column shortens by 0.6 in. under a load. What is the resulting strain in 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.
0.0025
All exterior walls resisted the lateral loads individually
Increases the strength of a wall against bending - increases the sliding resistance of the wall to in-plane lateral loads - reducing horizontal displacement between floors - helps to resist the tension caused by overturning of the Wall.

31. A GFRC curtain wall panel consists of...
Live end
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors
Concrete hollow-core slabs - metal deck - or wood deck.
Prevent the buckling of vertical reinforcement in columns

32. The structural design of formwork design is the reponsibility of the
The size of the masonry that the manufacture would like to achieve.
Out of Plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck
Reinfocing bars are provided at the top and bottom of the beams
General contractor

33. The thickness of a roof or floor deck is generally specified in terms of...
3000 psi
Gauge number
Grouted and reinforced with horizontal steel dowels
Connections are tightened to a high tensil stress so that shear resistance is provided though fiction between the connect surfaces

34. Thermal Mass is _____
Some interior concrete slabs-on-ground
Where the concrete absorbs the heat from the day and slowly releases it during the night
2 1/2 hours of the initial preparations of mortar
2 1/2 in

35. Weep holes must be provided ______ to the flashing
Immediately above
Fibrous
Beams and Columns
No. 3 or No. 4 bars

36. List the Mortar types from greatest Comprssive strength to The lowest compressive strength
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.
Extruded bricks that have through-through hols.
M -S -N -O

37. In a Flemish-bonded wall
Concrete masonry Units
Joists
Is the Specified dimension plus one mortar joint thickness
Each course Consists of alternate headers and stretchers

38. Z-flashing is effective in...
Snap Tie
EAF - BOF - OHF
A horizontal butt join in cladding
Upward deflection of a beam to counter downward deflection by a dead load

39. IN the steel joist designation 24LH10 the number 24 gives the _____
Percast at the construction site
Veneer wall
Strip Footing
Depth of the joist in inches

40. What are the two benifits of pressing concret?
Support Pylons
One piece anchors
Each floor level
Reduced cracking in concret - and reduction in the dimensions of stuctural members

41. The most commonly used steel for framming menbers is_______
Tougher pg 617
Beams and Columns
W-Shaped Columns and Beams
Stretcher Face

42. 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?
Brick ledge
Gravity - wind and surface tension
Alkali resistant
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.

43. This CMU type resists water infiltration - one ways
Two terminals of high-voltage electric circuit are brought close together and creating a sutained spark across the space between the terminals
2
Alkali resistant
Providing an impervious barrier to water

44. The Vertical Lines that are not connected to Beams are called ____
Barrier walls
Exposed aggregate finish by water washing - Abrasive blasting - acid etching
Joists
2in

45. Retempering of motar means...
True
That it is welded
Adding water to the mortar
Grade 50 steel

46. The Top Left hand Corner is a ____ Beam
Footing
Tension
Angle section (L)
they extend the entire thickness of the slab - they isolate the slab from the building's structural componants.

47. The combination of bond Beams and Vertically reinforced CMU cells forms _______
The connections between the walls and the floor or roof decks
A reinforced-masonry frame
Support Pylons
3in

48. HSS can be what Shape?
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together
Square - rectangular or round
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it
Pre-cast concrete hollow-core slabs

49. Benefits of reinforced masonry
Floor decks
laminated glass - so that glass shards don't rain down death.
Masonry Bearing Wall Structure
Increases the strength of a wall against bending - increases the sliding resistance of the wall to in-plane lateral loads - reducing horizontal displacement between floors - helps to resist the tension caused by overturning of the Wall.

50. Hot-dipped galvanized the steel member is immersed in a kettle of molten _____
Continuious waterproof membrane which provides a continuous barrior that originates at the backup wall and penetrates through air space and cladding
Brick ledge
Zinc
Capillary break