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1. The chairs used for supporting reinforcing steel bars are generally
Brown coat
Plastic - and Steel chairs with plastic-coated feet
Zero (0)
Zero (0)

2. What is the maximum height for a storefront window system?
Surface tension
10-13 feet.
A special electric wrench is used that induces a predetermined torque bolt
Scratch coat

3. Formwork is refereed to as
Support Pylons
The contained molds in which the concrete is cast
Pieces sticking out away from the columes
The cladding resists all the wind load

4. This type of form work has gained favor in constructing high-rise reinforced-concrete bearing walls structures
Sanding smooth the insulation boards for EIFS
Where the concrete absorbs the heat from the day and slowly releases it during the night
Tunnel Form
A felexible connection that allows the ends of the beam to rotate under the load.

5. The Middle-THird Rule indicated that ______
Water Proofing
Peter Zumther
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.
Base Plate

6. the foundations for concrete tilt-up walls constits of...
Masonry Bearing Wall Structure
Square - rectangular or round
Noncombustible and is similar to fiberglass - manufacture of insulation.
Continuous strip footings - isolated pad footings - drilled pier footings.

7. In a multisory building - shelf angles are typically used at...
Site cast concrete slabs
3000 PSI
Shelf angles
Each floor level

8. Minimum concrete strength of _____ for a slab
Perpendicular to the main axis of the building.
16 in
3000 psi
Parallel - wider

9. Most Structural Steel sections are produced using _______
Hot Rolling
Lug
Cranes and rails
Alkali resistant

10. Roof deck is generally topped with _____
Construction Joint
Rigid Insulation and Roof cover
Compressive strength and Flexural tensile bond strength
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks

11. The most common thickness for mortar is____
Steel Joist Institute
3/8
Some interior concrete slabs-on-ground
Drainage Walls

12. The use of ONe-way decks yields the following two types of bearing wall planes name one?
annealed glass
Providing an impervious barrier to water
Water Proofing
Cross bearing Walls plane

13. Deep foundations use what to ensure that the building does not move
Water Proofing
Type S
Shores
Pile

14. A drainage wall is a wall that consists of an
7 in
Large - prefabricated - tunnel forms that allow walls and slabs to be cast simultaneously
Exterior cladding and a inner backup wall and a intervening air space between the cladding and the backup
Plortland cement-based mix

15. OHF full name is?
Water and resistant to puncture - tear - and abrasion
Continuous strip footings - isolated pad footings - drilled pier footings.
Reinfocing bars are provided at the top and bottom of the beams
Open-Hearth furnace

16. A drainage wall is a wall that consists of an
Metals that contain Iron
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall
Exterior cladding and a inner backup wall and a intervening air space between the cladding and the backup
The courses alternate between headers ans stretchers

17. G120 is for ____ corrosive enviroment
K-series - LH series - DHL series
Highly Crosive - Extreme
Two piece anchor - or which one is embedded in CMU backup and the other is embedded in the Veneers mortar joint
Barrier walls

18. Name one of the types of foundations of tilt-up walls
Concave
Isolated pad footing
The concrete is cast at the site
EAF - OHF - BOF

19. Repetitive floor planes are not only structurally more efficient but also _____
2in pg 645
More easily constructable.
3/8 greater than the multiples of the masonry unit module.
Drilled pier footing

20. The Horizontal Lines in the Middle are called ____
Beams
25 ft and not more than 10 ft from the walls corner
Tube
16 in

21. In a steel column that rests on a concrete footing - the area of the bearing plate used is generally
3000 PSI
Greater than the cross-sectional area of the column
2 1/2 in
Composite

22. Bond beams are _____
Individual elements - tha do not have continuity to resist diaphragm tension - and are anchored to to masonry beams.
4
Providing a anomalous slope in the surface.
Psi - ksi - Pa - and GPa

23. What type of noise did Juliard use to see if noise was reflected back?
Fire-resitive - mold-free - sound-insulating - relatively inexpensive and durable.
Reinforced concrete member
Lateral load support to the veneer
Pink

24. Concrete is a(an) ____________ material
Control joints - Isolation joints - Construction joints
Pre-tensioned concrete
Elastic
Strip Footing

25. The GFRC skin is typically
Reinforced concrete wall - CMU wall - wood or steel stud wall
1/2 to 3/4 thick
1. Girder-primary 2. Beam-secondary 3. joist-tertiary
Actual strength / required strength

26. CMU is _____
Base Plate
Actual strength / required strength
Cinder Block
The Vertical lumber on this image of formwork is called ______

27. The Top right hand Beam is called a
Tube
1. decking 2. membrane 3. insulation 4. flashing
T section
Plortland cement-based mix

28. The arrows next to the Column and the base plate are indications of what?
That it is welded
One piece anchors
Noncombustible and is similar to fiberglass - manufacture of insulation.
PB pg 703

29. The structural behavior of a contemporary load-bearing masonry wall building is similar to that of...
Some veneer walls
Immediately about a flashing
A conventional wood light frame building
American Standard Shape

30. The important feature of an Exterior drainage wall is...
Is embedded in the walls
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes
Bolting the member and rightening them with a spud wrench using full force
Residential

31. Minimum concrete strength of _____ for a slab
3000 psi
Immediately above
A single 1/2 - 7 wire strand
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.

32. the temporary braces that support the concrete tilt-up walls are typically removed when
Much lower
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
Strength of it - and weakens the strength of the wall.
Is embedded in the walls

33. This type of Mortar is used in seismic zones
20 ft
Concrete hollow-core slabs - metal deck - or wood deck.
Molded bricks
Type S

34. What is the 2 arrow?
Stretcher Face
FBX
8 and 30 in
Base Plate

35. The two most commonly used concrete floor systems are...
Flexural and Shear.
Flat-plate floor - and one-way joist floor
25 ft in the field of the wall and 10 ft from a wall's corner.
Drilled pier footing

36. In connecting the upper-Column shaft with a lower-column shaft in a multistory steel frame building - we generally require?
Basic Oxygen Furnace
Two flange plates
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.
16'

37. Bricks that have frogs are...
Molded bricks
Vertical reinforcing bars
Immediately about a flashing
they extend the entire thickness of the slab - they isolate the slab from the building's structural componants.

38. Vertical Mortar joints are also called _____
Zero (0)
Iron ore and coke are mixed together in a Furnace
excavation
Head Joints

39. What is the First arrow point at?
Leveling Nut
Type S
Control joints in concrete do what?
Psi - ksi - Pa - and GPa

40. Who Invented the Basic Oxygen Furnace?
3/5/8x2/1/4x7/5/8
Lug
Angle section (L)
Henry Bessemer in 1855

41. In a tilt up wall constuction system - the walls are...
3/8
To increase the shear strength of beam above that provided by concrete
Exterior cladding and a inner backup wall and a intervening air space between the cladding and the backup
Percast at the construction site

42. What are some Advantages to using Steel and Joists and Joist Girders?
Portland cement stucco
Zero (0)
Lighter Weight - Easier Erection
Brick ledge

43. Flashing material must be impervious to...
Live end
Water and resistant to puncture - tear - and abrasion
Control joints - Isolation joints - Construction joints
Shelf angles

44. two types of facotry-blended mixes for this finish coat are available - name some
S50X30
Plortland cement-based mix
Greater Floor to Floor height - COncentrated Loads - Complex layout floor and roof frame - and Fire protection
8 in to 30 in

45. Pile
=change in length/original length
The Long part extending from the Foundation into the bed rock - as shown in this picture is called _____
Cylinder measuring 6 inches in diameter x 12 in high
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

46. Stirrups are generally made of...
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
Increase the strength of beam in shear
Average annual freezing cycle days - and average annual winter rainfall of the location
No. 3 or No. 4 bars

47. They provide a weakness in the slab at predetermined locations to force the slab to crak there and not somewhere else.
Control joints in concrete do what?
240 in =20ft
Two flange plates
Flying forms

48. Scaffold-types shores are usally made from
Reservoir
Plortland cement-based mix
Steel pipes
Its strenth-to-weight ration is high - which reduces the weight of forms and shores.

49. In specifying the dimesnsions f a masonry unity - which dimensions is stated first?
Modular
ground supported slabs (a.k.a. slabs-on-ground or slabs-on-grade) bear directly on a compacted ground with organic top soil removed. 2. elevated slabs rest on and are part of the structural frame of the building. Therefore they are also referred to a
connection beam flanges
Width - W - of Unit

50. A two way joist floor is also called...
3000 psi
A Waffle Slab
Deck that spans between two opposite walls - and the gravity load on the deck is carried in one direction across the two opposite walls.
To ensure stability against overturning by wind loads