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1. Fine Grained soles are______ with water
Continuous strip footings - isolated pad footings - drilled pier footings.
Sanding smooth the insulation boards for EIFS
Walls with vertical reinforcement
Cohesive

2. What are the 3 types of furnaces?
36 ksi
Flying forms
144^2 - 18ft.
EAF - OHF - BOF

3. This CMU type resists water infiltration - one ways
Force / Area
Highly Crosive - Extreme
Providing an impervious barrier to water
Metals that do not contain Metals

4. Three differenet types of cleaning Concrete surfaces is...
Exposed aggregate finish by water washing - Abrasive blasting - acid etching
Immediately above the flashing
The contained molds in which the concrete is cast
Weak in shear

5. Flashing in a drainage wall is a _____
Compressive strength and Flexural tensile bond strength
T section
Henry Bessemer in 1855
Continuious waterproof membrane which provides a continuous barrior that originates at the backup wall and penetrates through air space and cladding

6. The Horizontal Lines in the Middle are called ____
Square - rectangular or round
Plastic - and Steel chairs with plastic-coated feet
Average annual freezing cycle days - and average annual winter rainfall of the location
Beams

7. Which type of EIF is most used?
Structural concrete fill
W - S - HP - M
PB pg 703
True

8. Pile
The Long part extending from the Foundation into the bed rock - as shown in this picture is called _____
2 1/2 in
Supported by - and anchored to - the buildings structure
Open-Hearth furnace

9. Effloresecence
2.67 ft
Pipe Section
3/5/8x2/1/4x7/5/8
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall

10. The simplest cellular-type plan is a_______
Control joints - Isolation joints - Construction joints
Columns
Single-story - rectangular (box type)
A large formwork assembly for concrete walls

11. The dead load of brick vaneer may be borne by the wall foundation without any support at intermediate floors up to a maximum height of _____ above ground
30ft
3000 psi
Stress / strain = E
Hollow structural section

12. Plain-Masonry walls are _______
A sufficient number and adequate lengths of walls must be provided in both principal directions of a building
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.
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.
At each floor level and roof level

13. in a suspension bridge - Which member(s) is (are) in compression
Horizontal reinforcement
Support Pylons
Fibrous
2 in

14. in a typical stress-strain diagram of a material - the stress is generally plotted along the _________ axis
Is the Specified dimension plus one mortar joint thickness
Immediately above
Either tension or compression
Vertical

15. Name one of the types of foundations of tilt-up walls
cohesive
Grouted and reinforced with horizontal steel dowels
Drilled pier footing
A 100% solid unit

16. According to building codes - plain concrete (concrete without steel reinforement is not permitted in new construction.
Veneer wall
A992
False
Hollow structural section

17. The most common used 28 day strength of concrete of PC curtian wall panels is ______
A36
5000 psi
Barrier walls
3000 psi

18. Where the cutting of masontry units is discouraged - the wall dimensions are based on the masonry module. The module used in CMU walls is...
Head Joints
Peter Zumther
8 in
52-72

19. Bricks that are highly absorptive may need to be wetted before being laid in a wall
Column Footing
By Splitting I sections in half
Device that consists of a mesh made of polymeric strands witch trap the droppings and suspend them permanently above the weep hole
True

20. A masonry unit has 20% voids is referred to as a...
Open Headed joint
Pipe Section
Solid unit
True

21. The keyway between precast-concrete hollow core slabs runs ____________ to the bearing walls
Sloped - thinner
Flat-plate floor - and one-way joist floor
perpendicular
2 in

22. Most Structural Steel sections are produced using _______
Hot Rolling
7-5/8x7-5/8x15-5/8
Fire-resitive - mold-free - sound-insulating - relatively inexpensive and durable.
W - S - HP - M

23. Plymer based EIFS are also called...
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.
Soft-coat EIFS
Gravity - wind and surface tension
Modular

24. In a Flemish-bonded wall
Each course Consists of alternate headers and stretchers
Isolated pad footing
4
By functioning as a water reservior

25. Cast Iron is formed when _______
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.
Roof and Floor
Horizontal reinforcement
cohesive

26. In most masonry Beraing wall structures - the floors consist of precast_____
Isolated pad footing
Concrete hollow-core slabs - metal deck - or wood deck.
Reinfocing bars are provided at the top and bottom of the beams
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)

27. Z-flashing is effective in...
A horizontal butt join in cladding
A single 1/2 - 7 wire strand
The deflection of studs to withstand lateral loads
Composite

28. The clear height of openings in a CUM wall is...
Much lower
Cylinder measuring 6 inches in diameter x 12 in high
240 in =20ft
3/8 greater than the multiples of the masonry unit module.

29. How high off the does glass have to remain tempered?

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30. a larger space - nearly 1/4 or wider - immediately beyond the capillary space is called what?
Capillary break
Pile
W - S - HP - M
Plastic - and Steel chairs with plastic-coated feet

31. The Very middle one is called _____
Vertical
Plortland cement-based mix
Leveling Nut
I Section

32. Gravity generally affects water penetration through an exposed horizontal surface of a wall and can counted by
Providing a anomalous slope in the surface.
Pipe Section
A special electric wrench is used that induces a predetermined torque bolt
The time between the end of concreting and the removal of the forms

33. Diagonal bridging may be used as an alternative to horizontal bridging to...
Encase steel sections in concrete - OR use a Spray-applied fire protection and gypsum board facing
General contractor
All exterior walls resisted the lateral loads individually
stablize joists

34. The coping on a roof parapet is generally
2.67 ft
Joists
Plortland cement-based mix
Sloped toward the interior roof

35. The most efficient weep hole in a brick veneer consists of a...
K-series - LH series - DHL series
Portland cement stucco
Open Headed joint
A felexible connection that allows the ends of the beam to rotate under the load.

36. The cost of a tilt up wall system compares _____ with that of a masonry bearing wall system
Favorably
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
Immediately about a flashing
Connected members have been bolted together using spud wretch with the full force of a person

37. The most common used size of brick is...
Footing
3/5/8x2/1/4x7/5/8
Mid- to-high rise masonry bearing wall residential buildings
Allow water washing of concrete after stripping the forms

38. Low carbon (mild) steel is a(an) __________ material
Live end
A 100% solid unit
Elastic-plastic
Sanding smooth the insulation boards for EIFS

39. Yeild strength of steel is also referred to as the ______
Metals that do not contain Metals
Plastic - and Steel chairs with plastic-coated feet
Steel Grade
Angle section (L)

40. The two Strength Properties of Mortar are ______
Water Proofing
Provide unifrom drying and firing of bricks
Greater than the cross-sectional area of the column
Compressive strength and Flexural tensile bond strength

41. The Long part extending from the Foundation into the bed rock - as shown in this picture is called _____
7-5/8x7-5/8x15-5/8
By functioning as a water reservior
Pile
Joists

42. HSS can be what Shape?
3/5/8x2/1/4x7/5/8
That it is welded
A sufficient number and adequate lengths of walls must be provided in both principal directions of a building
Square - rectangular or round

43. Retempering of mortar - if needed - should be generally done within
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks
Concrete masonry Units
2 1/2 hours of the initial preparations of mortar
Prevent the buckling of vertical reinforcement in columns

44. A masonry unit that has no voids is referred to as
False
Support Pylons
Approximately equal to the combined cost of concrete and steel
A 100% solid unit

45. Where are deep foundations used?
Stretcher Face
where soil is not strong.
To ensure stability against overturning by wind loads
4000 psi

46. TCA recommends a minimum slab thickness of _____ regarless of the loads
Pink
5 in
Cotton ropes - that absorb water from the airspace by capillary action and drain it to the outside.
field bolting of steel member

47. W section I beam with a nominal depth of 16' and a weight of 50 lbs for 2 foot
Peter Zumther
AISC Type II Connection
W16X25
Greater than the cross-sectional area of the column

48. Tilt-up walls are connected to the slab on ground by one of the following two method - name one
A plastic cone and a loop at each end.
That it is welded
Steel embeds in wall and slab welded together with steel plates
perpendicular

49. What is the maximum length of a shelf angle?
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.
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.
Soft-coat EIFS
20 ft

50. PT concrete is Also known as _______
Pre-tensioned concrete
A continuous concrete closure strip in the slab-on-ground.
Column Footing
4000 psi