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1. Galvanizing is...
3000 PSI
Cold-formed and light structural steel members - in zinc coating
Fire-resitive - mold-free - sound-insulating - relatively inexpensive and durable.
3/8 in

2. The form work used in constructing high-rse residential buildings in site-cast reinforced-concrete bearing walls generally consists of...
Hard coat EIFS
Water that may reach the backup by traveling over metal anchors or unintentional obstructions in the air space
Large - prefabricated - tunnel forms that allow walls and slabs to be cast simultaneously
every floor

3. A steel with a yeild strenth of 50 ksi is also called _____
Construction Joint
Grade 50 steel
Structural concrete fill
Basic Oxygen Furnace

4. The Veneer is generally supported at each floor using steel _______
Soon as possible to allow rapid turnover and reuse of the framework
2in pg 645
Shelf angles
Grouted and reinforced with horizontal steel dowels

5. If you are moving the prefabricated formwork for each bay of the floor as a complete unit and the put it into position with a crane This is refereed to as ____
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.
Flying forms
tempered glass
A 100% solid unit

6. Bricks that are highly absorptive may need to be wetted before being laid in a wall
In plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck
Each course Consists of alternate headers and stretchers
True
Peter Zumther

7. S shapes the interior surfaces of the flanges are ____ and are ____ than the W shape
3/5/8x2/1/4x7/5/8
Sloped - thinner
0.0025
I Section

8. A GFRC curtain wall panel consists of...
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
Gas or arc
50
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors

9. Tilt-up walls are connected to the slab on ground by one of the following two method - name one
Its strenth-to-weight ration is high - which reduces the weight of forms and shores.
Device that consists of a mesh made of polymeric strands witch trap the droppings and suspend them permanently above the weep hole
A continuous closure strip
Construction Joint

10. Horizontal Bridging Members are ?
A continuous concrete closure strip in the slab-on-ground.
Tube
a nonmovement joint in a large concrete slab. It is used when concrete cannot be placed in on continuous operation.
Stabilizing members that space across the joists

11. What is Core Holes?
AISC Type II Connection
Extruded bricks that have through-through hols.
Metals that do not contain Metals
Elastic-plastic

12. Semirigid Connection is also called...
A plastic cone and a loop at each end.
Interegral to the mix of the finish coat pg 702
AISC Type III Connection
Steel

13. The material in an arch is primarily in _________
Continuous strip footings - isolated pad footings - drilled pier footings.
Control joints in concrete do what?
Compression
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.

14. The thickness of a roof or floor deck is generally specified in terms of...
1/2 to 3/4 thick
The contained molds in which the concrete is cast
Gauge number
In plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck

15. 8in Thick CMU wall is ______

16. OHF full name is?
As a structure that is made entirely of linear elements - columns and beams.
Open-Hearth furnace
Reduced cracking in concret - and reduction in the dimensions of stuctural members
The size of the masonry that the manufacture would like to achieve.

17. Modulus of elasticity refers to how _____ a material is...
True
Stiff
Cinder Block
4000 psi

18. A sufficient number of weep holes must be provided for the drainage of the air space - gernerally - a weep hole spacing of ____ is used with open head joints
Lighter weight
24in
To ensure stability against overturning by wind loads
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

19. Arch welding is where
A single 1/2 - 7 wire strand
Two terminals of high-voltage electric circuit are brought close together and creating a sutained spark across the space between the terminals
Either tension or compression
True

20. In a cross-bearing wall structure - the load bearing walls are...
No. 3 or No. 4 bars
A conventional wood light frame building
Perpendicular to the main axis of the building.
Bed Joints

21. The Two bottom Left ones are called _____
EAF - OHF - BOF
Tube
Control joints - Isolation joints - Construction joints
AISC Type III Connection

22. 8in Thick CMU wall is ______

23. a backup wall is required in a...
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
Walls with vertical reinforcement
Porland cement - lime - and sand
Veneer wall

24. Benefits of reinforced masonry
Horizontal reinforcement
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.
1kip=1000psi
Is the Specified dimension plus one mortar joint thickness

25. The Term prestressed concrete refers to both pretensioned and posttensioned concret
Tube
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.
Columns
True

26. two types of facotry-blended mixes for this finish coat are available - name some
Horizontal reinforcement
every floor
Masonry Bearing Wall Structure
Acrylic polymer-based mix

27. The freeze-thaw resistance of bricks has been found to be a function of the
Tunnel Form
Steel Joist Institute
Flat-plate floor - and one-way joist floor
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks

28. Joist spacing is generally between ___ and ___ for ceilings?
Perpendicular to the main axis of the building.
4 to 6 ft
Cohesive
Zero (0)

29. What type of noise did Juliard use to see if noise was reflected back?
Low rise building 1 to 4 stories
4000 psi
The exterior cladding in a pressure equalized wall
Pink

30. 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?
1kip=1000psi
Metals that do not contain Metals
Shores
FBX

31. Most of the cost comes from _____
Much lower
25 ft in the field of the wall and 10 ft from a wall's corner.
The Framework
Pipe Section

32. Where the cutting of masontry units is discouraged - the wall dimensions are based on the masonry module. The module used in CMU walls is...
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
8 in
24
Stiff

33. one piece - corrigated anchor or an adjustable - two piece wire anchor should not be spaced more than ____
Comressive Strength = load at failure / area = ksi or psi
32 in on center and not more than 18 in vertically
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.
The industry's standard for masonry bearing wall structures.

34. Details of connection between Steel Framing members are generally prepared by the buildings
Steel fabricator
Each course Consists of alternate headers and stretchers
Shores
Drainage Walls

35. The thicker the wall the larger the _______ needs to be
Cinder Block
Steel embeds in wall and slab welded together with steel plates
Masonry Bearing Wall Structure
Reservoir

36. The primary purpose of steel reinforments is to increase the tensile strenth of concrete elements - however - steel reinforcments is also used to increase the shear strength and compressive strenght of concrete elements
Glass fiber-reinforced concrete
True
Vertical reinforcing bars
Better

37. In a brick veneer assembly - flashing is required
Gauge number
General contractor
Tension
At foundation level - over a lintel angle - over a shelf angle - under a window sill.

38. A shelf angle in a brick veneer assembly must provide
Gravity load support to the veneer
W - S - HP - M
5 in
Steel

39. In high-rised residential buildings with site cast reinforced concrete bearing walls - the floors and the roofs are generally constructed of...
Site cast concrete slabs
Deck that spans between two opposite walls - and the gravity load on the deck is carried in one direction across the two opposite walls.
2in
Zero (0)

40. Plain-Masonry walls are _______
Psi - ksi - Pa - and GPa
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.
Longitudinal bearing Wall Plan.
144^2 - 18ft.

41. Two-way deck is a ____
A continuous concrete closure strip in the slab-on-ground.
Deck that the load is transferred to all four walls - and are generally of site-cast concrete.
Failure stress / allowable stress
Construction Joint

42. the coping on a masonry fence wall is generally...
Sloped on both sides
Steel
Continuous strip footings - isolated pad footings - drilled pier footings.
2 to 4 ft

43. DLH series has a depth range of...
Deck that spans between two opposite walls - and the gravity load on the deck is carried in one direction across the two opposite walls.
2
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes
52-72

44. IN the steel joist designation 24LH10 the number 24 gives the _____
Depth of the joist in inches
8
That it is welded
Snap Tie

45. What is the first thing a contractor does at a construction site?
excavation
windward face
Water Proofing
The size of the masonry that the manufacture would like to achieve.

46. A bond beam in masonry bearing wall building
Thermal Mass
7 in
Actual strength / required strength
Is embedded in the walls

47. The Bottom Right hand Picture is a ______
connection beam flanges
Steel fabricator
Mock-up
Pipe Section

48. Bricks that are highly absorptive may need to be wetted before being laid in a wall
True
Hard coat EIFS
As a structure that is made entirely of linear elements - columns and beams.
T section

49. Who designed the kaunthaus bregenz?
Peter Zumther
Iron ore and coke are mixed together in a Furnace
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes

50. Scaffold-types shores are usally made from
Zero (0)
stress=force/area
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.
Steel pipes