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1. W-Shape is also called _____
False
Wide-Flange section
Head Joints
Shelf angle anchored to the structural frame of the building

2. The primary reason for providing core hols in bricks is to...
Tougher pg 617
Glass fiber-reinforced concrete
2in
Provide unifrom drying and firing of bricks

3. If you put less lime in Morar this decreases
Pile
Parallel - wider
Cranes and rails
Strength of it - and weakens the strength of the wall.

4. A steel with a yeild strenth of 50 ksi is also called _____
Grade 50 steel
1. Girder-primary 2. Beam-secondary 3. joist-tertiary
Site cast concrete slabs
Shelf angles

5. A slip-critical connection is...
Connections are tightened to a high tensil stress so that shear resistance is provided though fiction between the connect surfaces
True
Weep holes
Tube

6. A bond beam in masonry bearing wall building
Is embedded in the walls
1. Girder-primary 2. Beam-secondary 3. joist-tertiary
3/5/8x2/1/4x7/5/8
Actual strength / required strength

7. The two Strength Properties of Mortar are ______
7-5/8x7-5/8x15-5/8
By functioning as a water reservior
Reinfocing bars are provided at the top and bottom of the beams
Compressive strength and Flexural tensile bond strength

8. Who Manufactureres joists and joist girders?
Mid- to-high rise masonry bearing wall residential buildings
Greater than the cross-sectional area of the column
SJI
36 ksi

9. A concrete member containing reinfrocing bars is called _____
24in
1in
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall
Reinforced concrete member

10. The Three Levels of Hot-dip Galvanizing are...
The industry's standard for masonry bearing wall structures.
Lateral load support to the veneer
10-13 feet.
G30 - G60 - G120

11. G30 is for _____ corrosive enviroment
A conventional wood light frame building
Gravity - wind and surface tension
Mildly
The deflection of studs to withstand lateral loads

12. Horizontal Mortar joints are also called ______
2in
Cinder Block
2in
Bed Joints

13. Built-up sections are made by _____
Parallel - wider
5 in
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together
Gravel

14. What is the bottom piece called?
Portland cement stucco
A felexible connection that allows the ends of the beam to rotate under the load.
Footing
1. Girder-primary 2. Beam-secondary 3. joist-tertiary

15. A K-series steel joist that is 20 in deep cannot space more than ____
40 ft
Hollow structural section
Is embedded in the walls
Modular

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

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17. ASTM standards require that the area between control joints in stucco applied on a stud wall assembly not exceed ______ with neither deminsion of this area exceeding ___
4000 psi
Joists
144^2 - 18ft.
Deck that the load is transferred to all four walls - and are generally of site-cast concrete.

18. Cold formings is when __
Lug
240 in =20ft
90 to 180 degress
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature

19. A wall footing is also called _____
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall
Workablity - water rentivity - and water tightness
I Section
Strip Footing

20. Minimum concrete strength of _____ for a slab
3000 psi
Brown coat
True
SJI

21. Joist spacing is generally between ___ and ___ for floors
Veneer wall
18'
2 to 4 ft
Two terminals of high-voltage electric circuit are brought close together and creating a sutained spark across the space between the terminals

22. What is the bottom piece called?
Wood and Plywood - Steel - Aluminum - Glass Fiber
Length - L - of unit
A 100% solid unit
Footing

23. Stripping time is ___
Where the concrete absorbs the heat from the day and slowly releases it during the night
The Horizontal members of this image for formwork is called ______
Open Headed joint
The time between the end of concreting and the removal of the forms

24. Flashing in a drainage wall is a _____
Continuious waterproof membrane which provides a continuous barrior that originates at the backup wall and penetrates through air space and cladding
2in
I Section
Rain-screen wall

25. A two way joist floor is also called...
A Waffle Slab
Bearing connection
Flying forms
Compressive strength and Flexural tensile bond strength

26. In specifying the dimesnsions f a masonry unity - which dimensions is stated first?
Width - W - of Unit
True
16 in
5000 psi

27. Form liners are used to...
True
Allow water washing of concrete after stripping the forms
True
Each course Consists of alternate headers and stretchers

28. The maximum spacing for one piece - corrigated anchor or an adjustable - two piece wire anchor is limited by the code to one anchor for every _____
In plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck
Surface tension
2.67 ft
That it is welded

29. The Dark things in the Corner are ____
True
Columns
Metals that do not contain Metals
8

30. 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
Within the plane of the veneer
windward face
Elevated Slabs
7-5/8x7-5/8x15-5/8

31. Cast Iron is formed when _______
Wider space in an otherwize narrow joint
Cinder Block
Iron ore melts and then is cooled to a solid state by casting it on a sand bed - the shape of the casting resembles a little of new born pigs.
they extend the entire thickness of the slab - they isolate the slab from the building's structural componants.

32. In a brick veneer assembly - weep holes are required at...
Immediately above the flashing
Surface tension
Prevent the buckling of longitudinal column bars
Is the Specified dimension plus one mortar joint thickness

33. Mortar-Capturing device is a...
Beams
Masonry Bearing Wall Structure
Device that consists of a mesh made of polymeric strands witch trap the droppings and suspend them permanently above the weep hole
Beams

34. Bond beams are _____
Individual elements - tha do not have continuity to resist diaphragm tension - and are anchored to to masonry beams.
Compressive strength
A special electric wrench is used that induces a predetermined torque bolt
Mid- to-high rise masonry bearing wall residential buildings

35. Where the cutting of masontry units is discouraged - the wall dimensions are based on the masonry module. The module used in CMU walls is...
Iron ore melts and then is cooled to a solid state by casting it on a sand bed - the shape of the casting resembles a little of new born pigs.
Grouted Space
8 in
Pre-tensioned concrete

36. A joint screen is an
perpendicular
Grouted Space
L-shaped sheet metal or plastic element - that has a vertical leg that has openings to let the water out
structural frame

37. A material that is weak in tension is...
24in
Thermal Mass
Scratch coat
Weak in shear

38. The simplest cellular-type plan is a_______
Drilled pier footing
1kip=1000psi
Copper and stainless steel
Single-story - rectangular (box type)

39. PC curtain wall system is used in all climates - its particularly favored in...
Harsh climates - where onsite masonry and concrete construction are problematic due to freeze hazard and slow curing rate of Portland cement.
The deflection of studs to withstand lateral loads
Plastic - and Steel chairs with plastic-coated feet
Simple Connection

40. What is the First arrow point at?
Leveling Nut
laminated glass - so that glass shards don't rain down death.
3/8 greater than the multiples of the masonry unit module.
Beams

41. a construction join in a concrete slab on ground is required if the concrete in the slab connot be placed in one continuous operation
=change in length/original length
True
Provide unifrom drying and firing of bricks
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs

42. The chairs used for supporting reinforcing steel bars are generally
2 to 4 ft
Plastic - and Steel chairs with plastic-coated feet
Columns
Metals that do not contain Metals

43. The bending stresses along the neutral axis of a beam are _________
Zero (0)
Favorably
3/8
Isolation Joints

44. When a cable or rope is compressed by a force - What is the compressive stress i it?
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall
40 ft
Zero (0)
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs

45. Coarse-Grained soils are refered to as ______ with water
Cranes and rails
American Standard Shape
32 in on center and not more than 18 in vertically
Noncohesive Soils

46. What does SJI stand for?
Steel Joist Institute
Masonry Bearing Wall Structure
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs
Supported by - and anchored to - the buildings structure

47. What is one of the Empirical rules?
That the thickness of exterior masonry walls progressively increase toward the lower floors.
W-Shaped Columns and Beams
perpendicular
By Splitting I sections in half

48. This mortar is gernerally specified in all-brick veneer except in seismic zones.
Type N
Steel Grade
Thermal Mass
Continuious waterproof membrane which provides a continuous barrior that originates at the backup wall and penetrates through air space and cladding

49. Was is directly underneith the concrete Slab
Noncombustible and is similar to fiberglass - manufacture of insulation.
Zero (0)
Steel pipes
Water Proofing

50. There should only be _____ gravity load connections - also referred to as bearing supports per panel located as near the columns as possible
Head Joints
Reduced cracking in concret - and reduction in the dimensions of stuctural members
2
Continuious waterproof membrane which provides a continuous barrior that originates at the backup wall and penetrates through air space and cladding