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1. The simplest cellular-type plan is a_______
Fire-resitive - mold-free - sound-insulating - relatively inexpensive and durable.
SJI
Single-story - rectangular (box type)
The time between the end of concreting and the removal of the forms

2. Stressing-end assembly is called a ____
4
Cylinder measuring 6 inches in diameter x 12 in high
Live end
1/2 to 3/4 thick

3. 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
Vertical
Barrier walls
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.

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

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5. This type of Mortar is used in seismic zones
Beams
Type S
Rain-screen wall
shear force=force/area

6. To protect reinforcment from corrosion - a minimum amount of concrete is ____
Plortland cement-based mix
Angle section (L)
3 in
Elevated Slabs

7. Galvanizing is...
Favorably
Cold-formed and light structural steel members - in zinc coating
Joists
Joists

8. The clear height of openings in a CUM wall is...
Steel pipes
Discontinuity of walls at foundations and requires a heavy transfer structure.
Mild
3/8 greater than the multiples of the masonry unit module.

9. The term FLying form refers to...
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.
Joists
Reduced cracking in concret - and reduction in the dimensions of stuctural members
A large formwork assembly for concrete walls

10. A shear connection between a Steel beam and a Steel Colum is also called a ____
Lighter weight
Simple Connection
2 1/2 hours of the initial preparations of mortar
Cohesive

11. Laminated glass can be made with ____________ or annealed glass
As a structure that is made entirely of linear elements - columns and beams.
Joists
A reinforced-masonry frame
tempered glass

12. Because the Bond Beam is grouted it provides ______
A suitable base on which the roof or floor trusses and joist can be supported ans anchored
Stress at the point of failure
Mildly
Base Plate

13. Coarse-Grained soils are refered to as ______ with water
Device that consists of a mesh made of polymeric strands witch trap the droppings and suspend them permanently above the weep hole
Longitudinal bearing Wall Plan.
Two piece anchor - or which one is embedded in CMU backup and the other is embedded in the Veneers mortar joint
Noncohesive Soils

14. two types of facotry-blended mixes for this finish coat are available - name some
Composite
W-shaped beams - Steel joints
Acrylic polymer-based mix
Immediately about a flashing

15. Effloresecence
A Waffle Slab
52-72
Type N
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall

16. Plymer modified EIFS are also called...
Hard coat EIFS
Device that consists of a mesh made of polymeric strands witch trap the droppings and suspend them permanently above the weep hole
240 in =20ft
A felexible connection that allows the ends of the beam to rotate under the load.

17. Rasping is what?
Cinder Block
Sanding smooth the insulation boards for EIFS
Thermal Mass
Psi - ksi - Pa - and GPa

18. G60 is for ____ corrosive enviroment
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall
Soon as possible to allow rapid turnover and reuse of the framework
MOre Crrosive Enviroment - Hot
18'

19. The primary purpose of steel reinforments is to increase the tensile strenth of concrete elements - however - steel reinforcments is also used to increase the shear strength and compressive strenght of concrete elements
True
3000 psi
3in
Mildly

20. W-Shape is also called _____
36 ksi
Wide-Flange section
Lug
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature

21. A common type of Form Tie is ____
tempered glass
That it is welded
Snap Tie
More easily constructable.

22. Was is directly underneith the concrete Slab
Beams
Immediately above the flashing
The size of the masonry that the manufacture would like to achieve.
Water Proofing

23. ____________________ is gerneally preferred over filed welding?
The concrete is casted in controled enviroments and then transported to the contruction job.
2 1/2 in
Control joints - Isolation joints - Construction joints
field bolting of steel member

24. The primary reason for providing core hols in bricks is to...
Provide unifrom drying and firing of bricks
Getting Iron and Meling it - Then when the Ore is soft - Silica is beat out with a hammer
laminated glass - so that glass shards don't rain down death.
Continuous Stip footing

25. Reshoring Concrete structures is necessary where excessive deflection of Floor slabs or foundation settlement is anticipate on remval of shores
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
No. 3 or No. 4 bars
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
False

26. Joists Girders has ______ than a Joist
connection beam flanges
Reinforced concrete or steel frame structure
Heavier members and spans from column to column
A small opening at the bottom of cladding

27. This type of form work has gained favor in constructing high-rise reinforced-concrete bearing walls structures
4 to 6 ft
Open Headed joint
Rain-screen wall
Tunnel Form

28. What is the formula for stress?
Tension
stress=force/area
Cohesive
Stretcher Face

29. Camber refers to...
Out of Plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck
Upward deflection of a beam to counter downward deflection by a dead load
True
16 in

30. S section I beam with a nominal depth of 50' and a weight of 60 lbs per 3 feet
Beams
S50X30
Plortland cement-based mix
Peter Zumther

31. Plain-Masonry walls are _______
High-treated carbon steel
Angle section (L)
After World War 2
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.

32. Wicks consist of...
52-72
Force / Area
Better
Cotton ropes - that absorb water from the airspace by capillary action and drain it to the outside.

33. Rest on and are part of the structural frame of the building - they are used for 2nd and higher floors.
Fibrous
Average annual freezing cycle days - and average annual winter rainfall of the location
Compressive strength and Flexural tensile bond strength
Elevated Slabs

34. The required color of a stucco surface is...
Interegral to the mix of the finish coat pg 702
excavation
Site cast concrete slabs
Connected members have been bolted together using spud wretch with the full force of a person

35. Pile
3 in
Zero (0)
The Long part extending from the Foundation into the bed rock - as shown in this picture is called _____
Shores

36. OHF full name is?
Open-Hearth furnace
W-shaped beams - Steel joints
Noncohesive Soils
Shelf angle anchored to the structural frame of the building

37. the GFRC skin is obtained by
Spraying the mix over a mold
Isolated pad footing
Elevated Slabs
Expanded metal lath

38. In referring to a masonry wall as a reinforced masonry wall it is implied that the wall contains
A conventional wood light frame building
Encase steel sections in concrete - OR use a Spray-applied fire protection and gypsum board facing
Vertical reinforcing bars
Cohesive

39. Who Invented the Basic Oxygen Furnace?
Device that consists of a mesh made of polymeric strands witch trap the droppings and suspend them permanently above the weep hole
Henry Bessemer in 1855
Better
every floor

40. The required color of a stucco surface is...
Interegral to the mix of the finish coat pg 702
connection beam flanges
True
Acrylic polymer-based mix

41. two types of facotry-blended mixes for this finish coat are available - name some
Length - L - of unit
Harsh climates - where onsite masonry and concrete construction are problematic due to freeze hazard and slow curing rate of Portland cement.
Support Pylons
Acrylic polymer-based mix

42. Yeild strength of steel is also referred to as the ______
Increase the strength of beam in shear
Steel Grade
The ground-floor slab of the building is too small to accommodate the precasting of all the walls
2.67 ft

43. Plymer modified EIFS are also called...
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together
Cranes and rails
Hard coat EIFS
Beams and Columns

44. A K-series steel joist that is 20 in deep cannot space more than ____
Dead End
40 ft
A special electric wrench is used that induces a predetermined torque bolt
Low rise building 1 to 4 stories

45. A K-series steel joist that is 20 in deep cannot space more than ____
Ground-Supported slabs area____
40 ft
Each course consists of Strechers
SJI

46. A wall footing is also called _____
Grade 50 steel
Zinc
Gravel
Strip Footing

47. The two most commonly used concrete floor systems are...
Two piece wire anchors
Site cast concrete slabs
Flat-plate floor - and one-way joist floor
Asymmetry

48. If you put more lime in Mortar this increases
Cotton ropes - that absorb water from the airspace by capillary action and drain it to the outside.
Workablity - water rentivity - and water tightness
That the thickness of exterior masonry walls progressively increase toward the lower floors.
every floor

49. A snug-Tight Condiction is also called...
Bearing connection
Zero (0)
2in
Compressive strength

50. Stripping time is ___
F = Force/Area = P (Force) /A (Area)
Prevent the buckling of longitudinal column bars
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it
The time between the end of concreting and the removal of the forms