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1. The Vertical Lines that are not connected to Beams are called ____
Favorably
4000 psi
Joists
Gauge number

2. What are the two benifits of pressing concret?
Immediately about a flashing
Tunnel Form
Reduced cracking in concret - and reduction in the dimensions of stuctural members
Adding water to the mortar

3. Ways to Protect structural steel from fire are...
3/8
Encase steel sections in concrete - OR use a Spray-applied fire protection and gypsum board facing
Stress / strain = E
Exterior cladding and a inner backup wall and a intervening air space between the cladding and the backup

4. An isolated concrete slab-on-ground requires what types of joints?
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together
Steel Joist Institute
Residential
Control joints - Isolation joints - Construction joints

5. A 1 1/2 depression is commonly created in foundation to receive the first course of the veneer - What is the name of the ledge?
10-13 feet.
Brick ledge
Is embedded in the walls
High-treated carbon steel

6. The commonly used floor system in a high-rise and midrise masonry bearing wall buildings in North America is...
Getting Iron and Meling it - Then when the Ore is soft - Silica is beat out with a hammer
Pre-cast concrete hollow-core slabs
Structural concrete fill
Spraying the mix over a mold

7. Roof deck is generally topped with _____
Steel Joist Institute
Asymmetry
Drainage Walls
Rigid Insulation and Roof cover

8. The most common thickness for mortar is____
Basic Oxygen Furnace
Psi - ksi - Pa - and GPa
Lintel angle
3/8

9. A vapor retarder is required under
That it is welded
The concrete is casted in controled enviroments and then transported to the contruction job.
30ft
Some interior concrete slabs-on-ground

10. The Long part extending from the Foundation into the bed rock - as shown in this picture is called _____
Pile
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.
Scaffolding
False

11. In general - a _______________ is more forgiving of construction and workmanship deficiencies than a steel stud-brick veneer
Tunnel Form
Joists
CMU backed brick veneer
The ground-floor slab of the building is too small to accommodate the precasting of all the walls

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

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13. Is that the walls that are required for load-bearing purposes may also function as shear walls in addition to enclosing and dividing spaces.
Masonry Bearing Wall Structure
Mock-up
Electric Arc Furnace
Low rise building 1 to 4 stories

14. A load-bearing wall structure works best when the floor plan of the building has
Acrylic polymer-based mix
Walls that are distributed almost uniformly in both principle and directions - walls at the uper floor that align with the walls at the lower floor - walls that are continuous up to the foundations
Elastic-plastic
Live end

15. Name one of the types of foundations of tilt-up walls
Drilled pier footing
Water Proofing
Connections are tightened to a high tensil stress so that shear resistance is provided though fiction between the connect surfaces
Percast at the construction site

16. A Simple Connection is...
All exterior walls resisted the lateral loads individually
Continuous Stip footing
A felexible connection that allows the ends of the beam to rotate under the load.
Supported by - and anchored to - the buildings structure

17. The Horizontal Lines in the Middle are called ____
Mild
Strip Footing
Beams
Metals that contain Iron

18. Who Manufactureres joists and joist girders?
Discontinuity of walls at foundations and requires a heavy transfer structure.
Continuous Stip footing
SJI
Longitudinal bearing Wall Plan.

19. 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 ______
Water and resistant to puncture - tear - and abrasion
Lighter weight
Greater Floor to Floor height - COncentrated Loads - Complex layout floor and roof frame - and Fire protection
20 ft

20. In referring to a masonry wall as a reinforced masonry wall it is implied that the wall contains
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)
Brick ledge
Vertical reinforcing bars
Actual strength / required strength

21. The required color of a stucco surface is...
2in
Interegral to the mix of the finish coat pg 702
25 ft and not more than 10 ft from the walls corner
No. 3 or No. 4 bars

22. Mechanical couplers are used
W16X25
Where lap splicing of reinforcing bars will produce excessive congestion
Head Joints
Cold-formed and light structural steel members - in zinc coating

23. What are the three forces that affect water infiltration through exterior wall are...
=change in length/original length
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
Mild
Gravity - wind and surface tension

24. The arrows next to the Column and the base plate are indications of what?
That it is welded
Walls that are distributed almost uniformly in both principle and directions - walls at the uper floor that align with the walls at the lower floor - walls that are continuous up to the foundations
At foundation level - over a lintel angle - over a shelf angle - under a window sill.
Two piece anchor - or which one is embedded in CMU backup and the other is embedded in the Veneers mortar joint

25. In a brick veneer assembly with a steel stud backup wall - the design of studs is generally governed by
2 1/2 in
2in
At foundation level - over a lintel angle - over a shelf angle - under a window sill.
The deflection of studs to withstand lateral loads

26. In a multisory building - shelf angles are typically used at...
Each floor level
The deflection of studs to withstand lateral loads
Henry Bessemer in 1855
Reservoir

27. What is the formula for stress?
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes
Greater Floor to Floor height - COncentrated Loads - Complex layout floor and roof frame - and Fire protection
Simple Connection
stress=force/area

28. The Dark things in the Corner are ____
Leveling Nut
Pipe Section
Columns
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it

29. The Vertical Lines that are not connected to Beams are called ____
Cotton ropes - that absorb water from the airspace by capillary action and drain it to the outside.
1in
AISC Type I Connection
Joists

30. Bricks and Blocks are called ____
Wide-Flange section
Concrete masonry Units
25 ft and not more than 10 ft from the walls corner
Water Proofing

31. The keyway between precast-concrete hollow core slabs runs ____________ to the bearing walls
24
A plastic cone and a loop at each end.
perpendicular
The courses alternate between headers ans stretchers

32. Horizontal Mortar joints are also called ______
Gravel
Plortland cement-based mix
Shelf angles
Bed Joints

33. The Top Left hand Corner is a ____ Beam
Angle section (L)
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs
2 1/2 in
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it

34. Two-way deck is a ____
The concrete is casted in controled enviroments and then transported to the contruction job.
Pile
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks
Deck that the load is transferred to all four walls - and are generally of site-cast concrete.

35. The I-section can be classified into four shapes. What are they?
240 in =20ft
125psi
W - S - HP - M
Within the plane of the veneer

36. High-strength bolts are made from
where soil is not strong.
Composite
True
High-treated carbon steel

37. The backup wall in brick veneer wall assemby consists of a...
Two flange plates
Prevent the buckling of vertical reinforcement in columns
Reinforced concrete wall - CMU wall - wood or steel stud wall
Each course consists of Strechers

38. If you put more lime in Mortar this increases
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors
Workablity - water rentivity - and water tightness
Vertical
The concrete is casted in controled enviroments and then transported to the contruction job.

39. Girder is...
A Waffle Slab
Base Plate
Much lower
Pieces sticking out away from the columes

40. A snape Tie consits of...
Sloped toward the interior roof
Water that may reach the backup by traveling over metal anchors or unintentional obstructions in the air space
Walls with overhangs
A plastic cone and a loop at each end.

41. What is the First arrow point at?
Allow water washing of concrete after stripping the forms
Leveling Nut
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together

42. The form work used in constructing high-rse residential buildings in site-cast reinforced-concrete bearing walls generally consists of...
Control joints - Isolation joints - Construction joints
Large - prefabricated - tunnel forms that allow walls and slabs to be cast simultaneously
A 100% solid unit
Prevent the buckling of vertical reinforcement in columns

43. Gravity generally affects water penetration through an exposed horizontal surface of a wall and can counted by
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.
Steel Grade
Providing a anomalous slope in the surface.
3000 psi

44. The Horizontal Lines in the Middle are called ____
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall
Beams
All exterior walls resisted the lateral loads individually
Floor decks

45. There should only be _____ gravity load connections - also referred to as bearing supports per panel located as near the columns as possible
1in
A large formwork assembly for concrete walls
2
Compressive strength

46. Where the cutting of masontry units is discouraged - the wall dimensions are based on the masonry module. The module used in CMU walls is...
2in
Footing
25 ft and not more than 10 ft from the walls corner
8 in

47. The simplest cellular-type plan is a_______
Single-story - rectangular (box type)
Steel Joist Institute
Carbon steel
16 in

48. The Slag is what?
Square - rectangular or round
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks
Molten Limestone that floats over molten Iron

49. Because the Bond Beam is grouted it provides ______
A992
Chairs
A suitable base on which the roof or floor trusses and joist can be supported ans anchored
Pink

50. The minimum depth of a K-series joist is ___ and the Max is __
2
Average annual freezing cycle days - and average annual winter rainfall of the location
8 and 30 in
Gravity load support to the veneer