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1. Where are deep foundations used?
30ft
Gravity load support to the veneer
Less than it's ultimate stress
where soil is not strong.

2. S-Shapes are mostly used for_____
Barrier walls
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall
Cranes and rails
Elevated Slabs and arches - its formwork for arches

3. strongbacks can

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4. A Tunnel form consists of...
Gravity load support to the veneer
stablize joists
Reservoir
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.

5. ____ are used to Support the Rebar up off pf the ground
Chairs
Exterior cladding and a inner backup wall and a intervening air space between the cladding and the backup
Ties are generally not provided in a concrete wall
connection beam flanges

6. The primary purpose of longitudinal steel bars in a reinforced concrete beam is to overcome the weakness of concrete in ______
Tension
Open Headed joint
Head Joints
Pre-tensioned concrete

7. The steel anchors that connect the veneer to the CMU backup wall are...
Cross bearing Walls plane
1in
Two piece wire anchors
Open Headed joint

8. Who Invented the Basic Oxygen Furnace?
Henry Bessemer in 1855
The concrete is cast at the site
Floor decks
Low rise building 1 to 4 stories

9. Girder is...
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes
Pieces sticking out away from the columes
Flexural and Shear.
Pre-cast concrete hollow-core slabs

10. A tube is referred to as a ____
HHS
By Splitting I sections in half
they extend the entire thickness of the slab - they isolate the slab from the building's structural componants.
8 in to 30 in

11. The coping on a roof parapet is generally
The ground-floor slab of the building is too small to accommodate the precasting of all the walls
M -S -N -O
Sloped toward the interior roof
stablize joists

12. A Simple Connection is...
A felexible connection that allows the ends of the beam to rotate under the load.
Width - W - of Unit
Barrier walls
Is embedded in the walls

13. A material that is weak in tension is...
EAF - OHF - BOF
Each floor level
4 to 6 ft
Weak in shear

14. The use of ONe-way decks yields the following two types of bearing wall planes name one?
every floor
A ductile material
At each floor level and roof level
Cross bearing Walls plane

15. The Dark things in the Corner are ____
Columns
Lighter weight
A325
Concrete hollow-core slabs - metal deck - or wood deck.

16. Joist spacing is generally between ___ and ___ for floors
Its strenth-to-weight ration is high - which reduces the weight of forms and shores.
W - S - HP - M
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together
2 to 4 ft

17. This CMU type resists water infiltration - one ways
Lapped members - clamped together with specially made clamps - and screw-based metal assembly
Encase steel sections in concrete - OR use a Spray-applied fire protection and gypsum board facing
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
By functioning as a water reservior

18. Most common used Veneer wall is...
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)
Molten Limestone that floats over molten Iron
S50X30
annealed glass

19. A bond beam in masonry bearing wall building
Immediately above
Pink
Gas or arc
Is embedded in the walls

20. A rain screen classing system addresses the issue of water penetration due to...
8 and 30 in
Greater Floor to Floor height - COncentrated Loads - Complex layout floor and roof frame - and Fire protection
50
Unequal distribution of air pressure on the exterior of the wall and in the airspace between the cladding an d the backup wall.

21. A major benefit of a steel stud backup wall in a in a brick veneer assembly as compaired with a CMU backup wall is its ______
Greater Floor to Floor height - COncentrated Loads - Complex layout floor and roof frame - and Fire protection
A992
Lighter weight
Connected members have been bolted together using spud wretch with the full force of a person

22. The units of modulus of elasticity are _______
0.0025
Psi - ksi - Pa - and GPa
laminated glass - so that glass shards don't rain down death.
Reinforced-concrete or reinforced masonry beam

23. The most commonly used steel for framming menbers is_______
W-Shaped Columns and Beams
Psi - ksi - Pa - and GPa
Highly Crosive - Extreme
shear force=force/area

24. Benefits of reinforced masonry
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.
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks
Fibrous
2 to 4 ft

25. a curtian wal is typically used in buildings whose structural system consists of...
T section
Reinforced concrete or steel frame structure
A36
I Section

26. Where the cutting of masontry units is discouraged - the wall dimensions are based on the masonry module. The module used in CMU walls is...
8 in
Deck that the load is transferred to all four walls - and are generally of site-cast concrete.
1in
stress=force/area

27. A rigid Connection is also called...
Providing a anomalous slope in the surface.
AISC Type I Connection
Scratch coat
Perpendicular to the main axis of the building.

28. Weep holes must be provided ______ to the flashing
Immediately above
Stress / strain = E
CMU backed brick veneer
Tilt-up Concrete Association

29. Use of the load bearing masonry wall system became extinct for a while and was revived
After World War 2
Exterior cladding - Air space - Flashing - Water resistant backup - and weep holes.
windward face
8 and 30 in

30. Stressing-end assembly is called a ____
Live end
Grouted and reinforced with horizontal steel dowels
Elevated Slabs
Weep holes

31. BOF full name is _______
Head Joints
Wider space in an otherwize narrow joint
Cinder Block
Basic Oxygen Furnace

32. A shelf angle must be anchored to the building's...
structural frame
A992
Discontinuity of walls at foundations and requires a heavy transfer structure.
4000 psi

33. Conventional stucco is also called...
25 ft in the field of the wall and 10 ft from a wall's corner.
Construction Joint
Elastic-plastic
Portland cement stucco

34. Stirrups are used in Concrete beam ____
Tube
To increase the shear strength of beam above that provided by concrete
3 in
Veneer wall

35. What is the formula for stress?
The contained molds in which the concrete is cast
Beams
Elastic-plastic
stress=force/area

36. In a tilt up wall constuction system - the walls are...
Mid- to-high rise masonry bearing wall residential buildings
A felexible connection that allows the ends of the beam to rotate under the load.
Getting Iron and Meling it - Then when the Ore is soft - Silica is beat out with a hammer
Percast at the construction site

37. A GFRC curtain wall panel consists of...
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors
4 to 6 ft
18 to 48 in
Pile

38. Modulus of elasticity
Heavier members and spans from column to column
field bolting of steel member
Stress / strain = E
At foundation level - over a lintel angle - over a shelf angle - under a window sill.

39. two types of facotry-blended mixes for this finish coat are available - name some
Plastic - and Steel chairs with plastic-coated feet
Acrylic polymer-based mix
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.
AISC Type I Connection

40. What type of glass is used for places above walkways with no overhead protection

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41. A shelf angle in a brick veneer assembly must provide
1in
Force / Area
True
Gravity load support to the veneer

42. Ferrous Metals are...
Walls with vertical reinforcement
Metals that contain Iron
Plortland cement-based mix
same

43. Flat glass obtained from the float glass process - without further treatment - is the basic glass - referred to as _____________
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it
annealed glass
Column Footing
No. 3 or No. 4 bars

44. The Horizontal Lines in the Middle are called ____
A small opening at the bottom of cladding
Beams
AISC Type III Connection
Water that may reach the backup by traveling over metal anchors or unintentional obstructions in the air space

45. What is one of the Empirical rules?
Joists
Simple Connection
That the thickness of exterior masonry walls progressively increase toward the lower floors.
4 to 6 ft

46. Inside of Pressed concret the prestressing cables are called____
Strands
Sloped toward the interior roof
Parallel - wider
False

47. In referring to a masonry wall as a reinforced masonry wall it is implied that the wall contains
No. 3 or No. 4 bars
True
Either tension or compression
Vertical reinforcing bars

48. A shear connection between a Steel beam and a Steel Colum is also called a ____
Elevated Slabs
Angle section (L)
Simple Connection
Beams

49. A major benefit of a steel stud backup wall in a in a brick veneer assembly as compaired with a CMU backup wall is its ______
Flying forms
Stiff
Lighter weight
Open - vertical mortar joint in the veneer.

50. Coarse-Grained soils are refered to as ______ with water
Barrier walls
Noncohesive Soils
Steel
Highly Crosive - Extreme