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1. A Simple Connection is...
Pre-cast concrete hollow-core slabs
Each course Consists of alternate headers and stretchers
Basic Oxygen Furnace
A felexible connection that allows the ends of the beam to rotate under the load.

2. Bricks that have core holes are ____
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.
T section
Extruded Bricks
W - S - HP - M

3. The units of modulus of elasticity are _______
Reinforced concrete or steel frame structure
E = Change in length / original length = d / L
Sloped toward the interior roof
Psi - ksi - Pa - and GPa

4. Which gives greater warning before failure - a brittle or ductile material?
A ductile material
25 ft in the field of the wall and 10 ft from a wall's corner.
Elevated Slabs
Leveling Nut

5. What is the first thing a contractor does at a construction site?
Immediately above
excavation
Compressive strength
American Standard Shape

6. Name one of the types of foundations of tilt-up walls
Steel pipes
Increase the strength of beam in shear
A horizontal butt join in cladding
Drilled pier footing

7. In addition to water - stucco mix conists of...
Continuous strip footings - isolated pad footings - drilled pier footings.
Porland cement - lime - and sand
3/5/8x2/1/4x7/5/8
2in

8. What are some advantages of using concrete for Load Bearing Walls?
Grade 50 steel
Floor decks
Metals that do not contain Metals
Fire-resitive - mold-free - sound-insulating - relatively inexpensive and durable.

9. Compressive Strength Formula
Water Proofing
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it
Comressive Strength = load at failure / area = ksi or psi
Weak in shear

10. A tube is referred to as a ____
Pipe Section
HHS
Roof and Floor
K-series - LH series - DHL series

11. Built-up sections are made by _____
Grouted Space
Upward deflection of a beam to counter downward deflection by a dead load
Failure stress / allowable stress
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together

12. Molten iron from the blast furnace is converted to molten steel by one of three ways - which is the Three?
EAF - BOF - OHF
True
Weak in shear
MOre Crrosive Enviroment - Hot

13. Mortar-Capturing device is a...
Floor decks
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
Device that consists of a mesh made of polymeric strands witch trap the droppings and suspend them permanently above the weep hole
The concrete is cast at the site

14. the stirrups in a reinforced concrete beam are used to...
Tilt-up Concrete Association
Allow water washing of concrete after stripping the forms
=change in length/original length
Increase the strength of beam in shear

15. Strain Formula
3000 PSI
The courses alternate between headers ans stretchers
4000 psi
E = Change in length / original length = d / L

16. A rectngular column measuring 12 in x 12 in. in cross section carries a loat of 18 kips. What is the stress in the column
A ductile material
W-Shaped Columns and Beams
125psi
Construction Joint

17. Flashing material must be impervious to...
A single 1/2 - 7 wire strand
Water and resistant to puncture - tear - and abrasion
3/8 in
Metals that do not contain Metals

18. two types of facotry-blended mixes for this finish coat are available - name some
Plortland cement-based mix
False
Electric Arc Furnace
Alkali resistant

19. _______ is the Most important Ferrous Metal
Steel
Open-Hearth furnace
0.0025
L-shaped sheet metal or plastic element - that has a vertical leg that has openings to let the water out

20. A slip-critical connection is...
4000 psi
Percast at the construction site
Low-rise buildings generally up to 50 ft
Connections are tightened to a high tensil stress so that shear resistance is provided though fiction between the connect surfaces

21. The clear height of openings in a CUM wall is...
The time between the end of concreting and the removal of the forms
laminated glass - so that glass shards don't rain down death.
Scratch coat
3/8 greater than the multiples of the masonry unit module.

22. A snape Tie consits of...
structural frame
A plastic cone and a loop at each end.
The size of the masonry that the manufacture would like to achieve.
The size of the masonry that the manufacture would like to achieve.

23. The anchors in a brick veneer wall assembly provide
Parallel - wider
Low rise building 1 to 4 stories
Roof and Floor
Lateral load support to the veneer

24. Shelf angles are...
W - S - HP - M
Supported by - and anchored to - the buildings structure
Tougher pg 617
3/8

25. A fully cured Stucco is ___ thick
Barrier walls
7/8in
Weak in shear
Comressive Strength = load at failure / area = ksi or psi

26. the allowable stress in a material is generally

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27. When a cable or rope is compressed by a force - What is the compressive stress i it?
Zero (0)
Workablity - water rentivity - and water tightness
Walls with overhangs
Each course consists of Strechers

28. S-Shape is also called ____
Gravel
American Standard Shape
Lug
Bolting the member and rightening them with a spud wrench using full force

29. A Steel angle used to support the weight of Brick veneer over an opening is called a...
Electric Arc Furnace
Lintel angle
Joists
Mildly

30. Bear directly on a compacted ground with the organic top soil removed.
Mildly
Tilt-up Concrete Association
Carbon steel
Ground-Supported slabs area____

31. The Term prestressed concrete refers to both pretensioned and posttensioned concret
1/2 to 3/4 thick
True
Steel embeds in wall and slab welded together with steel plates
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes

32. Flashing must be accompanied by _____
Roof and Floor
Less than it's ultimate stress
Weep holes
4000 psi

33. The test specimens used for determining the compressive strength of concrete in the united states is a...
laminated glass - so that glass shards don't rain down death.
Carbon steel
Cylinder measuring 6 inches in diameter x 12 in high
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

34. 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 ___
W - S - HP - M
144^2 - 18ft.
False
Gravity - wind and surface tension

35. HSS can be what Shape?
Cohesive
Square - rectangular or round
Metals that contain Iron
Cylinder measuring 6 inches in diameter x 12 in high

36. G60 is for ____ corrosive enviroment
2.67 ft
Individual elements - tha do not have continuity to resist diaphragm tension - and are anchored to to masonry beams.
16'
MOre Crrosive Enviroment - Hot

37. _____ are generally kept at the construction site and become the basis for judgement of all panels produced by the precast plant
Mock-up
A ductile material
2in
Out of Plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck

38. Bricks are anchored to the frame on every floor or every other floor?
That it is welded
American Standard Shape
A conventional wood light frame building
every floor

39. The length of a masonry wall is based on ______ dimension
Modular
Grouted Space
Upward deflection of a beam to counter downward deflection by a dead load
Depth of the joist in inches

40. For a brick veneer that bears on the foundation and continuses to the top of the building without any intermediate support - the maximum veneer height is limited to...
Reinforced-concrete or reinforced masonry beam
30 ft
Shelf angles
Plortland cement-based mix

41. The keyway between precast-concret hollow-core slabs is generally
The concrete is cast at the site
8 in
Grouted and reinforced with horizontal steel dowels
16'

42. PC curtain wall panels are removed from the form as____
Soon as possible to allow rapid turnover and reuse of the framework
Immediately above the flashing
Thermal Mass
Stiff

43. Laminated glass can be made with ____________ or annealed glass
Vertical reinforcing bars
The contained molds in which the concrete is cast
4000 psi
tempered glass

44. The simplest and most effective weep hols is a _____
Open - vertical mortar joint in the veneer.
Immediately about a flashing
Two piece wire anchors
3000 PSI

45. A rain screen classing system addresses the issue of water penetration due to...
2 to 4 ft
The exterior cladding in a pressure equalized wall
Where lap splicing of reinforcing bars will produce excessive congestion
Unequal distribution of air pressure on the exterior of the wall and in the airspace between the cladding an d the backup wall.

46. The Dark things in the Corner are ____
Columns
Each floor level
7/8in
Pile

47. Stirrups are used in Concrete beam ____
To increase the shear strength of beam above that provided by concrete
Cinder Block
Expanded metal lath
Composite

48. The coping on a roof parapet is generally
A special electric wrench is used that induces a predetermined torque bolt
Flexible - durable - resistance to UV radiation.
Sloped toward the interior roof
Floor decks

49. Reinforcement increases a masonry's walls ________ and _______ strength
3000 PSI
The concrete is casted in controled enviroments and then transported to the contruction job.
Flexural and Shear.
Exposed aggregate finish by water washing - Abrasive blasting - acid etching

50. EAF full name is?
Electric Arc Furnace
Water that may reach the backup by traveling over metal anchors or unintentional obstructions in the air space
Better
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors