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1. Form liners are used to...
Allow water washing of concrete after stripping the forms
Failure stress / allowable stress
Workablity - water rentivity - and water tightness
Live ends

2. Most common used Veneer wall is...
Lateral load support to the veneer
Mid- to-high rise masonry bearing wall residential buildings
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)
1. Girder-primary 2. Beam-secondary 3. joist-tertiary

3. In a PT concrete slab on groud - the tendons are stressed from the
Barrier walls
At foundation level - over a lintel angle - over a shelf angle - under a window sill.
The size of the masonry that the manufacture would like to achieve.
Live end

4. A bond Beam is provided at ______
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.
Connected members have been bolted together using spud wretch with the full force of a person
Porland cement - lime - and sand
same

5. Mechanical couplers are used
Where lap splicing of reinforcing bars will produce excessive congestion
4000 psi
Shelf angles
A sufficient number and adequate lengths of walls must be provided in both principal directions of a building

6. One-way deck is a ______
Deck that spans between two opposite walls - and the gravity load on the deck is carried in one direction across the two opposite walls.
Dead End
Concave
I Section

7. Is that the walls that are required for load-bearing purposes may also function as shear walls in addition to enclosing and dividing spaces.
A992
Masonry Bearing Wall Structure
2in
High-treated carbon steel

8. Water resistant layer on the backup wall protects it from
Bearing connection
Columns
Water that may reach the backup by traveling over metal anchors or unintentional obstructions in the air space
Shores

9. The chairs used for supporting reinforcing steel bars are generally
Isolation Joints
Plastic - and Steel chairs with plastic-coated feet
8 in
field bolting of steel member

10. The Horizontal Lines in the Middle are called ____
Grade 50 steel
Beams
F = Force/Area = P (Force) /A (Area)
Reservoir

11. List the Mortar types from greatest Comprssive strength to The lowest compressive strength
3000 psi
Live end
M -S -N -O
Immediately about a flashing

12. Diagonal bridging may be used as an alternative to horizontal bridging to...
Plortland cement-based mix
stablize joists
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.
Residential

13. the anchors used in GFRC panels are typically
Large - prefabricated - tunnel forms that allow walls and slabs to be cast simultaneously
Plastic - and Steel chairs with plastic-coated feet
One piece anchors
5 in

14. The term FLying form refers to...
More easily constructable.
A reinforced-masonry frame
The ground-floor slab of the building is too small to accommodate the precasting of all the walls
A large formwork assembly for concrete walls

15. What is the Third Arrow Pointing at?
Construction Joint
125psi
Grouted Space
1in

16. Mortar-Capturing device is a...
cohesive
Deck that the load is transferred to all four walls - and are generally of site-cast concrete.
Henry Bessemer in 1855
Device that consists of a mesh made of polymeric strands witch trap the droppings and suspend them permanently above the weep hole

17. Unfinished bolts are made from
2
Reduced cracking in concret - and reduction in the dimensions of stuctural members
Carbon steel
Composite

18. Pile
The Long part extending from the Foundation into the bed rock - as shown in this picture is called _____
2 1/2 hours of the initial preparations of mortar
structural frame
2 1/2 hours of the initial preparations of mortar

19. Unfinished bolts are made from
Carbon steel
Steel fabricator
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.
Cinder Block

20. Bricks that are highly absorptive may need to be wetted before being laid in a wall
Fall within the range of loads spans that are common in buildings
EAF - OHF - BOF
True
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it

21. Site cast concrete slabs can be one of two types What are they?
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs
Pink
3000 PSI
Gauge number

22. Inside of Pressed concret the prestressing cables are called____
Strands
Base Plate
Shelf angles
The deflection of studs to withstand lateral loads

23. in an ideal pressure-equalized drainage wall
The cladding resists all the wind load
Lintel angle
2in
Composite

24. Steel reinforcement in concrete elements that are permanently exposed to earth - such as in footing - must have a minimum concrete cover of ____
A conventional wood light frame building
3in
To ensure stability against overturning by wind loads
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.

25. EAF full name is?
I Section
Electric Arc Furnace
Each course Consists of alternate headers and stretchers
Gauge number

26. In specifying the dimensions of a masonry unit - which dimension is states last?
Length - L - of unit
Gravel
3000 psi
2 1/2 in

27. What is the maximum height for a storefront window system?
4 to 6 ft
10-13 feet.
Provide unifrom drying and firing of bricks
7-5/8x7-5/8x15-5/8

28. Generally - a Bond Beam is only _____ deep
same
Modular
8
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks

29. What are the three forces that affect water infiltration through exterior wall are...
7 in
Scratch coat
Large - prefabricated - tunnel forms that allow walls and slabs to be cast simultaneously
Gravity - wind and surface tension

30. G120 is for ____ corrosive enviroment
Highly Crosive - Extreme
Hot Rolling
Collect and channel any water that gets into the air space back to the exterior
Drainage Walls

31. Basic Oxygen Furnace did what?
Beams and Columns
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall
T section
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it

32. A connection between a floor or roof and a wall must be adequate to sustain the 3 forces What is one of these forces?
Cylinder measuring 6 inches in diameter x 12 in high
In plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck
18'
18'

33. In a brick veneer assembly - flashing is required
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.
Two piece wire anchors
At foundation level - over a lintel angle - over a shelf angle - under a window sill.
Collect and channel any water that gets into the air space back to the exterior

34. _____ are generally kept at the construction site and become the basis for judgement of all panels produced by the precast plant
A continuous concrete closure strip in the slab-on-ground.
Head Joints
Beams
Mock-up

35. Conventional stucco is also called...
Portland cement stucco
Stress at the point of failure
FBX
Masonry Bearing Wall Structure

36. in a pressure-equalized wall the backup wall must be
2in
Square - rectangular or round
Sanding smooth the insulation boards for EIFS
Air tight

37. Water-resistant exterior walls may be divided into three types What is one of these?
Stress / strain = E
Hard coat EIFS
Elevated Slabs
Barrier walls

38. A shear connection between a steel beam and a steel column can be made without _________ to the column
Large - prefabricated - tunnel forms that allow walls and slabs to be cast simultaneously
Length - L - of unit
Gravel
connection beam flanges

39. The arrows next to the Column and the base plate are indications of what?
same
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks
where soil is not strong.
That it is welded

40. The stregth of concrete in a residential concrete slab-on=ground is generally
Concrete hollow-core slabs - metal deck - or wood deck.
Prevent the buckling of longitudinal column bars
Stabilizing members that space across the joists
3000 PSI

41. 8in Thick CMU wall is ______

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42. 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
Encase steel sections in concrete - OR use a Spray-applied fire protection and gypsum board facing
3000 PSI
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall

43. Built-up sections are made by _____
That it is welded
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together
W-shaped beams - Steel joints
Vertical

44. the GFRC skin is obtained by
Column Footing
3000 psi
A small opening at the bottom of cladding
Spraying the mix over a mold

45. A connection between a floor or roof and a wall must be adequate to sustain the 3 forces What is one of these forces?
40 ft
Noncohesive Soils
where soil is not strong.
Out of Plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck

46. 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
Strands
Zero (0)
True

47. The Two bottom Left ones are called _____
Pre-tensioned concrete
AISC Type I Connection
Tube
Open Headed joint

48. Hooks in bars are produced by turning the bars through
control joints accomodate the shrinkage of concrete. their purpose is to provide weakness in the slab at predetermined locations to force the slab to crack there.
Steel
structural frame
90 to 180 degress

49. 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
Tougher pg 617
Shelf angle anchored to the structural frame of the building
Sloped on both sides
True

50. K-series has a depth range of?
Each floor level
8 in to 30 in
True
2.67 ft