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1. The Term Tendons includes Strands
True
Construction Joint
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.
The cladding resists all the wind load

2. The Top right hand Beam is called a
T section
By functioning as a water reservior
Flying forms
False

3. Was is directly underneith the concrete Slab
Construction Joint
Water Proofing
Large - prefabricated - tunnel forms that allow walls and slabs to be cast simultaneously
Providing a anomalous slope in the surface.

4. HSS can be what Shape?
Scaffolding
Square - rectangular or round
Chairs
Cross bearing Walls plane

5. The most important reason for providing tires in concrete conlumn is too
Isolated pad footing
Prevent the buckling of longitudinal column bars
Parallel - wider
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs

6. _______ is the Most important Ferrous Metal
True
Air tight
Provide unifrom drying and firing of bricks
Steel

7. Horizontal Mortar joints are also called ______
Two piece wire anchors
Mild
Bed Joints
30ft

8. The keyway between precast-concret hollow-core slabs is generally
Bolting the member and rightening them with a spud wrench using full force
Grouted and reinforced with horizontal steel dowels
A sufficient number and adequate lengths of walls must be provided in both principal directions of a building
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

9. Compressive Strength Formula
Reservoir
Comressive Strength = load at failure / area = ksi or psi
connection beam flanges
Basic Oxygen Furnace

10. two types of facotry-blended mixes for this finish coat are available - name some
Plortland cement-based mix
Grouted and reinforced with horizontal steel dowels
Mild
2in

11. Who Manufactureres joists and joist girders?
Cinder Block
SJI
Average annual freezing cycle days - and average annual winter rainfall of the location
30ft

12. Minimum concrete strength of _____ for a slab
3000 psi
A continuous closure strip
24
25 ft in the field of the wall and 10 ft from a wall's corner.

13. Floor deck is usally topped with a _____
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.
Structural concrete fill
American Standard Shape
Acrylic polymer-based mix

14. Z-flashing is effective in...
Hollow structural section
16 in
A horizontal butt join in cladding
Hot Rolling

15. Which type of EIF is most used?
Open - vertical mortar joint in the veneer.
4000 psi
PB pg 703
8 in to 30 in

16. Flat glass obtained from the float glass process - without further treatment - is the basic glass - referred to as _____________
2 1/2 in
2 1/2 hours of the initial preparations of mortar
annealed glass
Thermal Mass

17. Shear stress formula
Force / Area
Deck that the load is transferred to all four walls - and are generally of site-cast concrete.
Molten Limestone that floats over molten Iron
Wide-Flange section

18. The second coat of stucco is called...
Elevated Slabs and arches - its formwork for arches
Brown coat
cohesive
Angle section (L)

19. Most common used Veneer wall is...
Footing
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)
F = Force/Area = P (Force) /A (Area)
A single 1/2 - 7 wire strand

20. 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.
Stretcher Face
Walls with overhangs
Steel fabricator

21. The face of the PC wall panels should not be less than ____ thick
Reinforced concrete wall - CMU wall - wood or steel stud wall
Rain-screen wall
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
1in

22. The required color of a stucco surface is...
4000 psi
Interegral to the mix of the finish coat pg 702
Reservoir
Sanding smooth the insulation boards for EIFS

23. If you are moving the prefabricated formwork for each bay of the floor as a complete unit and the put it into position with a crane This is refereed to as ____
Increase the strength of beam in shear
A large formwork assembly for concrete walls
Flying forms
1in

24. What is the maximum length of a shelf angle?
Control joints in concrete do what?
Electric Arc Furnace
20 ft
Unequal distribution of air pressure on the exterior of the wall and in the airspace between the cladding an d the backup wall.

25. What is ultimate stress?
Stress at the point of failure
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes
3/8 in
Sloped - thinner

26. The maximum distance between fastners for stucco is...
Base Plate
7 in
Grouted Space
=change in length/original length

27. Arch welding is where
Stretcher Face
Concrete hollow-core slabs - metal deck - or wood deck.
Two terminals of high-voltage electric circuit are brought close together and creating a sutained spark across the space between the terminals
The deflection of studs to withstand lateral loads

28. Tilt-up walls are connected to the slab on ground by one of the following two method - name one
Composite
Sanding smooth the insulation boards for EIFS
16 in
A continuous closure strip

29. Drainage wall must have sufficient built-in redundancy to remain infiltration free for the entire life of the building that includes.
Exterior cladding - Air space - Flashing - Water resistant backup - and weep holes.
By Splitting I sections in half
=change in length/original length
The ground-floor slab of the building is too small to accommodate the precasting of all the walls

30. The Term prestressed concrete refers to both pretensioned and posttensioned concret
True
Shores
Zero (0)
Footing

31. the most commonly used strength of concrete for the slab-on ground in concrete tilt- up wall buildings is...
4000 psi
Tube
Asymmetry
Each course consists of Strechers

32. Steel joist are braced against instabilty by
That it is welded
Hoizontal bridging members at the bottom of the joists - and horizontal briging members at the top of the joists
Drainage Walls
Collect and channel any water that gets into the air space back to the exterior

33. in a suspension bridge - Which member(s) is (are) in compression
Prevent the buckling of vertical reinforcement in columns
Support Pylons
A ductile material
5 in

34. What is the 2 arrow?
HHS
3000 psi
Base Plate
Fibrous

35. The combination of bond Beams and Vertically reinforced CMU cells forms _______
A reinforced-masonry frame
4
4000 psi
Increase the strength of beam in shear

36. The most efficient weep hole in a brick veneer consists of a...
Open Headed joint
Collect and channel any water that gets into the air space back to the exterior
32 in on center and not more than 18 in vertically
Reinforced concrete or steel frame structure

37. Simple Connection is also called...
A horizontal butt join in cladding
AISC Type II Connection
The size of the masonry that the manufacture would like to achieve.
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

38. Wicks or Tubes need a spacing of ____ to go with open-head joints
Vertical reinforcing bars
Two piece wire anchors
Concrete hollow-core slabs - metal deck - or wood deck.
16 in

39. What type of noise did Juliard use to see if noise was reflected back?
Pink
True
Highly Crosive - Extreme
Open Headed joint

40. What is the First arrow point at?
Shores
Structural concrete fill
Leveling Nut
5000 psi

41. Standard CMU size
7-5/8x7-5/8x15-5/8
A 100% solid unit
Noncombustible and is similar to fiberglass - manufacture of insulation.
True

42. The Veneer is generally supported at each floor using steel _______
where soil is not strong.
Mid- to-high rise masonry bearing wall residential buildings
Shelf angles
Compressive strength

43. Flashing needs to have these qualities
Flexible - durable - resistance to UV radiation.
Hot Rolling
Lighter weight
Actual strength / required strength

44. CMU is _____
Masonry Bearing Wall Structure
Wood and Plywood - Steel - Aluminum - Glass Fiber
Cinder Block
That it is welded

45. The Two bottom Left ones are called _____
Leveling Nut
True
Providing a anomalous slope in the surface.
Tube

46. The Long part extending from the Foundation into the bed rock - as shown in this picture is called _____
Pile
Cross bearing Walls plane
That the thickness of exterior masonry walls progressively increase toward the lower floors.
Leveling Nut

47. A masonry unit has 20% voids is referred to as a...
3/8 greater than the multiples of the masonry unit module.
Continuous strip footings - isolated pad footings - drilled pier footings.
Elastic-plastic
Solid unit

48. Deep foundations use what to ensure that the building does not move
3in
Pink
At each floor level and roof level
Pile

49. Bear directly on a compacted ground with the organic top soil removed.
CMU backed brick veneer
Ground-Supported slabs area____
Residential
Control joints in concrete do what?

50. The Horizontal Lines in the Middle are called ____
Beams
Footing
Scaffolding
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