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1. What is the First arrow point at?
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Mock-up
Flying forms
A36

2. Molten iron from the blast furnace is converted to molten steel by one of three ways - which is the Three?
Sloped toward the interior roof
Connections are tightened to a high tensil stress so that shear resistance is provided though fiction between the connect surfaces
EAF - BOF - OHF
A325

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4. Water-resistant exterior walls may be divided into three types What is one of these?
Pipe Section
Drainage Walls
Continuous strip footings - isolated pad footings - drilled pier footings.
PB pg 703

5. The keyway between precast-concrete hollow core slabs runs ____________ to the bearing walls
2 in
perpendicular
4000 psi
By functioning as a water reservior

6. S section I beam with a nominal depth of 50' and a weight of 60 lbs per 3 feet
Bolting the member and rightening them with a spud wrench using full force
S50X30
Compressive strength
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks

7. Laminated glass can be made with ____________ or annealed glass
tempered glass
CMU backed brick veneer
To ensure stability against overturning by wind loads
Dead End

8. In specifying the dimesnsions f a masonry unity - which dimensions is stated first?
A325
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall
Width - W - of Unit
Shelf angles

9. Is a nonmovment joint in a large concrete slab - and is used when the concrete cannot be placed in one continuous operation.
Molded bricks
Construction Joint
The concrete is cast at the site
Beams

10. The Top right hand Beam is called a
Vertical reinforcing bars
Chairs
Unequal distribution of air pressure on the exterior of the wall and in the airspace between the cladding an d the backup wall.
T section

11. In an English-bonded Wall
2in
Compressive strength
Better
The courses alternate between headers ans stretchers

12. Which gives greater warning before failure - a brittle or ductile material?
A ductile material
Single-story - rectangular (box type)
Portland cement stucco
At each floor level and roof level

13. 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
Footing
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GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors

14. Conventional stucco is also called...
10-13 feet.
AISC Type III Connection
The connections between the walls and the floor or roof decks
Portland cement stucco

15. the stirrups in a reinforced concrete beam are used to...
40 ft
Increase the strength of beam in shear
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.
Pink

16. Minimum concrete strength of _____ for a slab
every floor
3000 psi
Expanded metal lath
Square - rectangular or round

17. Flashing needs to have these qualities
Henry Bessemer in 1855
Metals that do not contain Metals
Flexible - durable - resistance to UV radiation.
Collect and channel any water that gets into the air space back to the exterior

18. Scaffold-types shores are usally made from
Pieces sticking out away from the columes
Device that consists of a mesh made of polymeric strands witch trap the droppings and suspend them permanently above the weep hole
25 ft and not more than 10 ft from the walls corner
Steel pipes

19. a curtian wal is typically used in buildings whose structural system consists of...
L-shaped sheet metal or plastic element - that has a vertical leg that has openings to let the water out
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs
Reinforced concrete or steel frame structure
Cross bearing Walls plane

20. A tube is referred to as a ____
Zero (0)
T section
HHS
Extruded bricks that have through-through hols.

21. Two-way deck is a ____
Noncombustible and is similar to fiberglass - manufacture of insulation.
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Deck that the load is transferred to all four walls - and are generally of site-cast concrete.
Vertical reinforcing bars

22. The maximum recoomended spacing for vertical expansion joints is...
The exterior cladding in a pressure equalized wall
Two piece wire anchors
25 ft and not more than 10 ft from the walls corner
Failure stress / allowable stress

23. Stack casting is used when
The ground-floor slab of the building is too small to accommodate the precasting of all the walls
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it
Weak in shear
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together

24. Simple Connection is also called...
Less than it's ultimate stress
Greater Floor to Floor height - COncentrated Loads - Complex layout floor and roof frame - and Fire protection
AISC Type II Connection
2 to 4 ft

25. Most common used Veneer wall is...
2in
Within the plane of the veneer
As a structure that is made entirely of linear elements - columns and beams.
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)

26. Effloresecence
At foundation level - over a lintel angle - over a shelf angle - under a window sill.
Capillary break
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall
2in

27. Low carbon (mild) steel is a(an) __________ material
Elastic-plastic
Basic Oxygen Furnace
Water Proofing
Bed Joints

28. A shear connection between a steel beam and a steel column can be made without _________ to the column
connection beam flanges
30 ft
Support Pylons
Gravity - wind and surface tension

29. in an ideal pressure-equalized drainage wall
Type N
36 ksi
2
The cladding resists all the wind load

30. The freeze-thaw resistance of bricks has been found to be a function of the
Pipe Section
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
Wood and Plywood - Steel - Aluminum - Glass Fiber
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks

31. The use of ONe-way decks yields the following two types of bearing wall planes name one?
8 in
Longitudinal bearing Wall Plan.
Columns
Interegral to the mix of the finish coat pg 702

32. Camber refers to...
Soft-coat EIFS
same
52-72
Upward deflection of a beam to counter downward deflection by a dead load

33. Materials used for Formwork are___
Wood and Plywood - Steel - Aluminum - Glass Fiber
The concrete is casted in controled enviroments and then transported to the contruction job.
Where lap splicing of reinforcing bars will produce excessive congestion
True

34. What is ultimate stress?
True
Stress at the point of failure
Percast at the construction site
3/8

35. Tilt-up walls are connected to the slab on ground by one of the following two method - name one
A325
I Section
2in
A continuous closure strip

36. The required color of a stucco surface is...
Interegral to the mix of the finish coat pg 702
W - S - HP - M
Beams
Head Joints

37. Hot-dipped galvanized the steel member is immersed in a kettle of molten _____
Zinc
T section
Walls with overhangs
True

38. The arrows next to the Column and the base plate are indications of what?
Grouted Space
By Splitting I sections in half
2in
That it is welded

39. Clay is _______
False
A 100% solid unit
Lug
cohesive

40. The length of a masonry wall is based on ______ dimension
Footing
Modular
Isolated pad footing
Low-rise buildings generally up to 50 ft

41. Name one of the types of foundations of tilt-up walls
24in
Air tight
Isolated pad footing
Heavier members and spans from column to column

42. The GFRC skin is typically
1/2 to 3/4 thick
AISC Type I Connection
True
Beams

43. Built-up sections are made by _____
Wider space in an otherwize narrow joint
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together
Support Pylons
connection beam flanges

44. Repetitive floor planes are not only structurally more efficient but also _____
Noncohesive Soils
More easily constructable.
8 and 30 in
Isolation Joints

45. Pile
Ties are generally not provided in a concrete wall
Dead End
The Long part extending from the Foundation into the bed rock - as shown in this picture is called _____
Water Proofing

46. Was is directly underneith the concrete Slab
Approximately equal to the combined cost of concrete and steel
Lighter Weight - Easier Erection
Water Proofing
Flexible - durable - resistance to UV radiation.

47. Metal anchors are needed to transfer lateral loads to the backup wall in...
Plortland cement-based mix
Adding water to the mortar
Some veneer walls
Tube

48. A Mortar capturing device in a brick veneer assembly is used
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Bed Joints
Greater Floor to Floor height - COncentrated Loads - Complex layout floor and roof frame - and Fire protection
Immediately about a flashing

49. A bond Beam is provided at ______
Ground-Supported slabs area____
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.
Failure stress / allowable stress
36 ksi

50. PT concrete is Also known as _______
By Splitting I sections in half
Immediately about a flashing
Square - rectangular or round
Pre-tensioned concrete