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1. How is a T section made?
By Splitting I sections in half
AISC Type I Connection
General contractor
Basic Oxygen Furnace

2. What is the formula for strain?
=change in length/original length
Composite
Pink
K-series - LH series - DHL series

3. IRA is a measure of the Tensile Stregth of a brick?
Reinfocing bars are provided at the top and bottom of the beams
Connected members have been bolted together using spud wretch with the full force of a person
False
The concrete is casted in controled enviroments and then transported to the contruction job.

4. Water resistant layer on the backup wall protects it from
5 in
Elevated Slabs
Steel
Water that may reach the backup by traveling over metal anchors or unintentional obstructions in the air space

5. Unfinished bolts have the same charateristics as ____ steel
A36
Unequal distribution of air pressure on the exterior of the wall and in the airspace between the cladding an d the backup wall.
Leveling Nut
Cross bearing Walls plane

6. a curtain wall is separated form the structural fram of the building by a minimum of...
2 in
Extruded bricks that have through-through hols.
Surface tension
Approximately equal to the combined cost of concrete and steel

7. G120 is for ____ corrosive enviroment
Soft-coat EIFS
Mid- to-high rise masonry bearing wall residential buildings
3in
Highly Crosive - Extreme

8. In most masonry Beraing wall structures - the floors consist of precast_____
Concrete hollow-core slabs - metal deck - or wood deck.
Mid- to-high rise masonry bearing wall residential buildings
50
SJI

9. The simplest and most effective weep hols is a _____
Extruded bricks that have through-through hols.
Open - vertical mortar joint in the veneer.
Connections are tightened to a high tensil stress so that shear resistance is provided though fiction between the connect surfaces
Beams

10. K-series has a depth range of?
8 in to 30 in
Pile
Reinfocing bars are provided at the top and bottom of the beams
Collect and channel any water that gets into the air space back to the exterior

11. Strain Formula
Isolated pad footing
Out of Plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck
E = Change in length / original length = d / L
Strands

12. Bond beams are _____
Grouted Space
annealed glass
4
Individual elements - tha do not have continuity to resist diaphragm tension - and are anchored to to masonry beams.

13. in a simple three-member truss consisting of two rafters and a tie - each member is in...
Stretcher Face
Either tension or compression
Mock-up
Steel

14. The Two bottom Left ones are called _____
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs
The bolt shank and nut are marked after the joint has been snugged. Then a specific amount of rotation is induced in the nut with repect to the bolt - generally 1/3 to a full turn beyond the snug-tight condition
A single 1/2 - 7 wire strand
Tube

15. An ideal pressure-equailzed drainage wall is also referred to as
Drilled pier footing
Rain-screen wall
Hard coat EIFS
Pink

16. The anchors used to anchor the brick veneer to the backup wall are generally two-piece achors to allow differential movement between the veneer and the backup
Rain-screen wall
Alkali resistant
Within the plane of the veneer
Tube

17. The two Strength Properties of Mortar are ______
Elevated Slabs
Compressive strength and Flexural tensile bond strength
Veneer wall
I Section

18. What is the yield stress of A36 steel?
36 ksi
Strength of it - and weakens the strength of the wall.
Sloped - thinner
1in

19. Joists between the walls and the floor slabs of a site-cast reinforced concrete bearing wall are _______ than those in msonry wall and precast-concrete hollow-core slab structure.
Deck that spans between two opposite walls - and the gravity load on the deck is carried in one direction across the two opposite walls.
Asymmetry
Tougher pg 617
2

20. Bricks that are highly absorptive may need to be wetted before being laid in a wall
Scaffolding
Soft-coat EIFS
True
HHS

21. Capillary break is a...
Residential
Wider space in an otherwize narrow joint
Construction Joint
Pink

22. In a Multisotry steel frame building - the columns are generally spiced every ____ floors
Large - prefabricated - tunnel forms that allow walls and slabs to be cast simultaneously
Soon as possible to allow rapid turnover and reuse of the framework
2
Each floor level

23. __________ are vertical supports used in the forming of concrete.
Greater Floor to Floor height - COncentrated Loads - Complex layout floor and roof frame - and Fire protection
Elastic
A992
Shores

24. Camber refers to...
Average annual freezing cycle days - and average annual winter rainfall of the location
Upward deflection of a beam to counter downward deflection by a dead load
I Section
3 in

25. BOF full name is _______
Alkali resistant
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall
Basic Oxygen Furnace
25 ft and not more than 10 ft from the walls corner

26. The Horizontal Lines in the Middle are called ____
Iron ore and coke are mixed together in a Furnace
Columns
Beams
Beams and Columns

27. A masonry unit has 20% voids is referred to as a...
a nonmovement joint in a large concrete slab. It is used when concrete cannot be placed in on continuous operation.
Isolated pad footing
Solid unit
No. 3 or No. 4 bars

28. Wicks or Tubes need a spacing of ____ to go with open-head joints
16 in
True
Beams
excavation

29. What does SJI stand for?
A plastic cone and a loop at each end.
5 in
Water that may reach the backup by traveling over metal anchors or unintentional obstructions in the air space
Steel Joist Institute

30. in terms of water infiltration - the exterior walls in historical buildings functioned as
Much lower
Barrier walls
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors
Simple Connection

31. Who Manufactureres joists and joist girders?
MOre Crrosive Enviroment - Hot
Its strenth-to-weight ration is high - which reduces the weight of forms and shores.
Reduced cracking in concret - and reduction in the dimensions of stuctural members
SJI

32. Effloresecence
Dead End
Noncombustible and is similar to fiberglass - manufacture of insulation.
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall
The Horizontal members of this image for formwork is called ______

33. Pile
40 ft
American Standard Shape
The Long part extending from the Foundation into the bed rock - as shown in this picture is called _____
Grouted and reinforced with horizontal steel dowels

34. A fully cured Stucco is ___ thick
8 and 30 in
7/8in
Roof and Floor
Getting Iron and Meling it - Then when the Ore is soft - Silica is beat out with a hammer

35. What is Core Holes?
Leveling Nut
Extruded bricks that have through-through hols.
W-Shaped Columns and Beams
Modular

36. Tilt-up walls are connected to the slab on ground by one of the following two method - name one
7 in
Steel embeds in wall and slab welded together with steel plates
144^2 - 18ft.
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.

37. Weathering index of a location is a function of the
Gauge number
5000 psi
Exterior cladding - Air space - Flashing - Water resistant backup - and weep holes.
Average annual freezing cycle days - and average annual winter rainfall of the location

38. The arrows next to the Column and the base plate are indications of what?
Type N
That it is welded
4000 psi
Is embedded in the walls

39. Scaffold-types shores are usally made from
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it
Steel pipes
Live end
In plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck

40. In a brick veneer assembly - weep holes are required at...
EAF - BOF - OHF
Immediately above the flashing
A reinforced-masonry frame
Bed Joints

41. In a multisory building - shelf angles are typically used at...
Each floor level
S50X30
Molded bricks
The industry's standard for masonry bearing wall structures.

42. Arch welding is where
Two terminals of high-voltage electric circuit are brought close together and creating a sutained spark across the space between the terminals
1. Girder-primary 2. Beam-secondary 3. joist-tertiary
W-Shaped Columns and Beams
Psi - ksi - Pa - and GPa

43. Pocket formers in a PT concrete slab-on ground are used at...
Reinforced concrete or steel frame structure
Mild
8 in
Live ends

44. Shelf angles are...
0.0025
Isolation Joints
Supported by - and anchored to - the buildings structure
4000 psi

45. PCI recommends a minimum horizontal clearance of ___ of precast panels from the buildings structural frame
2in
Fire-resitive - mold-free - sound-insulating - relatively inexpensive and durable.
Molded bricks
Interegral to the mix of the finish coat pg 702

46. In referring to a masonry wall as a reinforced masonry wall it is implied that the wall contains
Upward deflection of a beam to counter downward deflection by a dead load
Vertical reinforcing bars
Metals that do not contain Metals
Cohesive

47. The most common used size of brick is...
3/5/8x2/1/4x7/5/8
Less than it's ultimate stress
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.
Mock-up

48. There should only be _____ gravity load connections - also referred to as bearing supports per panel located as near the columns as possible
Open Headed joint
2
Solid unit
5000 psi

49. the coping on a masonry fence wall is generally...
Adding water to the mortar
A horizontal butt join in cladding
Sloped on both sides
Brick ledge

50. Plymer modified EIFS are also called...
Hard coat EIFS
Peter Zumther
Pink
Depth of the joist in inches