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1. Water-resistant exterior walls may be divided into three types What is one of these?
Barrier walls
Encase steel sections in concrete - OR use a Spray-applied fire protection and gypsum board facing
Live ends
Parallel - wider

2. A bond beam in masonry bearing wall building
Is embedded in the walls
Soon as possible to allow rapid turnover and reuse of the framework
Open Headed joint
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.

3. The most common used 28 day strength of concrete of PC curtian wall panels is ______
Cold-formed and light structural steel members - in zinc coating
Joists
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature
5000 psi

4. Compressive Strength Formula
Comressive Strength = load at failure / area = ksi or psi
T section
Exterior cladding and a inner backup wall and a intervening air space between the cladding and the backup
90 to 180 degress

5. An air space of ____ is recommended for brick veneer
A suitable base on which the roof or floor trusses and joist can be supported ans anchored
Reinfocing bars are provided at the top and bottom of the beams
Asymmetry
2in pg 645

6. Rest on and are part of the structural frame of the building - they are used for 2nd and higher floors.
The contained molds in which the concrete is cast
Grouted and reinforced with horizontal steel dowels
Elevated Slabs
5 in

7. 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 ______
Two flange plates
Lighter weight
where soil is not strong.
L-shaped sheet metal or plastic element - that has a vertical leg that has openings to let the water out

8. What does HHS stand for?
Hollow structural section
7 in
True
16 in

9. Is a nonmovment joint in a large concrete slab - and is used when the concrete cannot be placed in one continuous operation.
Grouted and reinforced with horizontal steel dowels
0.0025
Construction Joint
A continuous concrete closure strip in the slab-on-ground.

10. Girder is...
Adding water to the mortar
In plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck
Pieces sticking out away from the columes
3000 PSI

11. Steel floor decks are either form decks or ___________decks.
Workablity - water rentivity - and water tightness
Reinfocing bars are provided at the top and bottom of the beams
Composite
A sufficient number and adequate lengths of walls must be provided in both principal directions of a building

12. The cost of a tilt up wall system compares _____ with that of a masonry bearing wall system
Soon as possible to allow rapid turnover and reuse of the framework
Brick ledge
Low-rise buildings generally up to 50 ft
Favorably

13. The required color of a stucco surface is...
Alkali resistant
Interegral to the mix of the finish coat pg 702
Carbon steel
Surface tension

14. When lintel angels and shelf angles are combined in the same angle in a brick veneer clad building - the angle should be treated as a...
Steel Joist Institute
Noncohesive Soils
Bed Joints
Shelf angle anchored to the structural frame of the building

15. Use of the load bearing masonry wall system became extinct for a while and was revived
Pipe Section
After World War 2
The deflection of studs to withstand lateral loads
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

16. Flashing material must be impervious to...
Supported by - and anchored to - the buildings structure
Water and resistant to puncture - tear - and abrasion
Wood and Plywood - Steel - Aluminum - Glass Fiber
7 in

17. Concrete is a(an) ____________ material
4000 psi
Elastic
Chairs
Alkali resistant

18. The concrete tilt-up wall construction system is generally used in...
Low rise building 1 to 4 stories
Horizontal reinforcement
Hoizontal bridging members at the bottom of the joists - and horizontal briging members at the top of the joists
After World War 2

19. The stress-strain diagram of ______ steel is nearly a straight line up to the yield point
Mid- to-high rise masonry bearing wall residential buildings
laminated glass - so that glass shards don't rain down death.
25 ft in the field of the wall and 10 ft from a wall's corner.
Mild

20. A Soft story is a _______
Discontinuity of walls at foundations and requires a heavy transfer structure.
2in
Horizontal reinforcement
4000 psi

21. The chairs used for supporting reinforcing steel bars are generally
Reinfocing bars are provided at the top and bottom of the beams
Plastic - and Steel chairs with plastic-coated feet
Basic Oxygen Furnace
Reinforced concrete or steel frame structure

22. the allowable stress in a material is generally

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23. The minimum required width of airspace between brick veneer and CMU backup wall is...
Structural concrete fill
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.
A large formwork assembly for concrete walls
2in

24. Standard CMU size
Hard coat EIFS
Concrete masonry Units
Stress / strain = E
7-5/8x7-5/8x15-5/8

25. Cold formings is when __
EAF - BOF - OHF
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature
Beams
Capillary break

26. The simplest and most effective weep hols is a _____
To increase the shear strength of beam above that provided by concrete
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
Open - vertical mortar joint in the veneer.
Structural concrete fill

27. A two way joist floor is also called...
Base Plate
36 ksi
Spraying the mix over a mold
A Waffle Slab

28. ____ are used to Support the Rebar up off pf the ground
Chairs
Stabilizing members that space across the joists
The industry's standard for masonry bearing wall structures.
In plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck

29. A typical anchor used with brick veneer and CMU backup wall assembly consist of...
Pipe Section
Discontinuity of walls at foundations and requires a heavy transfer structure.
Two piece anchor - or which one is embedded in CMU backup and the other is embedded in the Veneers mortar joint
Grade 50 steel

30. During the erection of concrete tilt up walls - a gap is left between the bottom of a wall panel the top of the footing. The gap is approximately
2in
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes
Prevent the buckling of longitudinal column bars
Immediately about a flashing

31. The Term GFRC is an acronym for...
Unequal distribution of air pressure on the exterior of the wall and in the airspace between the cladding an d the backup wall.
A36
2 to 4 ft
Glass fiber-reinforced concrete

32. What is the Fill Made up of?
Walls with vertical reinforcement
Footing
Gravel
A felexible connection that allows the ends of the beam to rotate under the load.

33. In a steel column that rests on a concrete footing - the area of the bearing plate used is generally
Simple Connection
Either tension or compression
Cross bearing Walls plane
Greater than the cross-sectional area of the column

34. A bond Beam is provided at ______
annealed glass
Molten Limestone that floats over molten Iron
A plastic cone and a loop at each end.
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.

35. The face of the PC wall panels should not be less than ____ thick
Electric Arc Furnace
90 to 180 degress
1in
Encase steel sections in concrete - OR use a Spray-applied fire protection and gypsum board facing

36. Bricks that have core holes are ____
Tougher pg 617
0.0025
Extruded Bricks
Force / Area

37. Weep holes must be provided ______ to the flashing
same
One piece anchors
Immediately above
annealed glass

38. Shear stress formula
Two flange plates
Open - vertical mortar joint in the veneer.
tempered glass
Force / Area

39. Stressing-end assembly is called a ____
L-shaped sheet metal or plastic element - that has a vertical leg that has openings to let the water out
Shores
Continuous strip footings - isolated pad footings - drilled pier footings.
Live end

40. A ____ sized gap is needed between adjacent lengths to provide for the shelf angles expansion.
Low-rise buildings generally up to 50 ft
The deflection of studs to withstand lateral loads
8
3/8 in

41. Plastic tubes work ____ than wicks
Better
Wood and Plywood - Steel - Aluminum - Glass Fiber
Lintel angle
Water that may reach the backup by traveling over metal anchors or unintentional obstructions in the air space

42. The greater the _____ the great the torsion created - which increases the cost of the structure.
Asymmetry
CMU backed brick veneer
AISC Type II Connection
Chairs

43. The Vertical Lines that are not connected to Beams are called ____
Columns
Sloped toward the interior roof
Mildly
Joists

44. Precast-concrete hollow-core slabs are most commonly used in____
A suitable base on which the roof or floor trusses and joist can be supported ans anchored
The size of the masonry that the manufacture would like to achieve.
Mid- to-high rise masonry bearing wall residential buildings
5 in

45. 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 ______
Lighter weight
Compression
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)
connection beam flanges

46. The Very middle one is called _____
Collect and channel any water that gets into the air space back to the exterior
Portland cement stucco
Greater than the cross-sectional area of the column
I Section

47. _______ is the Most important Ferrous Metal
windward face
Steel
Exterior cladding - Air space - Flashing - Water resistant backup - and weep holes.
2

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49. There should only be _____ gravity load connections - also referred to as bearing supports per panel located as near the columns as possible
Electric Arc Furnace
2
Glass fiber-reinforced concrete
7-5/8x7-5/8x15-5/8

50. A vapor retarder is required under
Some interior concrete slabs-on-ground
1in
The deflection of studs to withstand lateral loads
Mildly