Test your basic knowledge |

Construction Basics

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. The commonly used floor system in a high-rise and midrise masonry bearing wall buildings in North America is...
4000 psi
Two flange plates
Pre-cast concrete hollow-core slabs
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks

2. Walers
Tilt-up Concrete Association
Gravity load support to the veneer
The Horizontal members of this image for formwork is called ______
2

3. The required color of a stucco surface is...
Rain-screen wall
Interegral to the mix of the finish coat pg 702
Isolation Joints
Noncohesive Soils

4. Cast Iron is formed when _______
Either tension or compression
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.
2in
24

5. A slip-critical connection is...
Connections are tightened to a high tensil stress so that shear resistance is provided though fiction between the connect surfaces
E = Change in length / original length = d / L
Is the Specified dimension plus one mortar joint thickness
Mild

6. The Slag is what?
Molten Limestone that floats over molten Iron
Tilt-up Concrete Association
Steel fabricator
A horizontal butt join in cladding

7. IRA is a measure of the Tensile Stregth of a brick?
Copper and stainless steel
Isolated pad footing
False
where soil is not strong.

8. In relation to it's compressive strength - the tensile strength of concrete is...
True
Much lower
Base Plate
Prevent the buckling of vertical reinforcement in columns

9. The Two bottom Left ones are called _____
Tube
Two piece wire anchors
Basic Oxygen Furnace
American Standard Shape

10. 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...
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.
Two flange plates
Solid unit
30 ft

11. A concrete tilt-up system is limited to...
Head Joints
A ductile material
Low-rise buildings generally up to 50 ft
One piece anchors

12. The The Fourth Arrow is Pointing at
Low-rise buildings generally up to 50 ft
Column Footing
A small opening at the bottom of cladding
A single 1/2 - 7 wire strand

13. The minimum width of air space generally used between brick veneer and wood stud backup wall is...
Favorably
Heavier members and spans from column to column
1in
Molded bricks

14. Joist spacing is generally between ___ and ___ for ceilings?
Bed Joints
4 to 6 ft
Lighter member that spans between the girders
The concrete is cast at the site

15. The coping on a roof parapet is generally
Leveling Nut
Ground-Supported slabs area____
Sloped toward the interior roof
Residential

16. A bond beam in masonry bearing wall building
No. 3 or No. 4 bars
Is embedded in the walls
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature
Vertical

17. Most common used Veneer wall is...
Square - rectangular or round
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)
7 in

18. Molten iron from the blast furnace is converted to molten steel by one of three ways - which is the Three?
Highly Crosive - Extreme
Device that consists of a mesh made of polymeric strands witch trap the droppings and suspend them permanently above the weep hole
MOre Crrosive Enviroment - Hot
EAF - BOF - OHF

19. Coats of stucco are usally ____ thick
3/8
stress=force/area
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature
Longitudinal bearing Wall Plan.

20. Coarse-Grained soils are refered to as ______ with water
A 100% solid unit
The industry's standard for masonry bearing wall structures.
Noncohesive Soils
Grouted Space

21. Slagwool is _____
8
Noncombustible and is similar to fiberglass - manufacture of insulation.
tempered glass
Within the plane of the veneer

22. In a Typical sitecast reinforced Concrete structure - the cost of formwork and shores is...
Approximately equal to the combined cost of concrete and steel
Single-story - rectangular (box type)
Reinforced-concrete or reinforced masonry beam
Compressive strength and Flexural tensile bond strength

23. The use of ONe-way decks yields the following two types of bearing wall planes name one?
A992
1/2 to 3/4 thick
Stress at the point of failure
Cross bearing Walls plane

24. tilt-up concrete walls are connected to the slab-on ground with
Beams
By functioning as a water reservior
Single-story - rectangular (box type)
A continuous concrete closure strip in the slab-on-ground.

25. OHF full name is?
4000 psi
Open-Hearth furnace
Electric Arc Furnace
HHS

26. A concrete tilt-up system is limited to...
Low-rise buildings generally up to 50 ft
where soil is not strong.
Failure stress / allowable stress
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)

27. in a pressure-equalized wall the backup wall must be
Pipe Section
Noncohesive Soils
Air tight
Mildly

28. Ways to Protect structural steel from fire are...
Some interior concrete slabs-on-ground
Length - L - of unit
Encase steel sections in concrete - OR use a Spray-applied fire protection and gypsum board facing
True

29. W-Shape is also called _____
Reduced cracking in concret - and reduction in the dimensions of stuctural members
Wide-Flange section
Masonry Bearing Wall Structure
32 in on center and not more than 18 in vertically

30. A typical anchor used with brick veneer and CMU backup wall assembly consist of...
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes
Highly Crosive - Extreme
Two piece anchor - or which one is embedded in CMU backup and the other is embedded in the Veneers mortar joint
A 100% solid unit

31. A GFRC curtain wall panel consists of...
Is embedded in the walls
SJI
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors
Portland cement stucco

32. Hooks in bars are produced by turning the bars through
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)
90 to 180 degress
Columns
The time between the end of concreting and the removal of the forms

33. A sufficient number of weep holes must be provided for the drainage of the air space - gernerally - a weep hole spacing of ____ is used with open head joints
AISC Type III Connection
24in
they extend the entire thickness of the slab - they isolate the slab from the building's structural componants.
Site cast concrete slabs

34. Scaffold-types shores are usally made from
By functioning as a water reservior
Carbon steel
Steel pipes
A36

35. What are some Disadvantages to using Steel and Joists and Joist Girders?
Greater Floor to Floor height - COncentrated Loads - Complex layout floor and roof frame - and Fire protection
W-shaped beams - Steel joints
Mild
structural frame

36. A connection between a floor or roof and a wall must be adequate to sustain the 3 forces What is one of these forces?
Out of Plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck
Longitudinal bearing Wall Plan.
2in pg 645
Greater than the cross-sectional area of the column

37. strongbacks can

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

38. What is an Isolation Joint?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

39. Specified Dimensions of masonry units is ____
The size of the masonry that the manufacture would like to achieve.
Square - rectangular or round
Depth of the joist in inches
All exterior walls resisted the lateral loads individually

40. 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 ___
144^2 - 18ft.
True
Hollow structural section
Elevated Slabs and arches - its formwork for arches

41. The Self-Furring glavanized steel lath(diamond pattern) is called what?
Copper and stainless steel
Expanded metal lath
Molded bricks
7 in

42. Wicks or plastic tubes have a diamenter of...
Where lap splicing of reinforcing bars will produce excessive congestion
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.
3/8
40 ft

43. in a suspension bridge - Which member(s) is (are) in compression
Support Pylons
laminated glass - so that glass shards don't rain down death.
144^2 - 18ft.
W16X25

44. The use of ______ concrete is customary
4000 psi
3/8 greater than the multiples of the masonry unit module.
Gravel
1/2 to 3/4 thick

45. An air space of ____ is recommended for brick veneer
2in pg 645
Prefabricated and collapsible inverted- L forms that allow the walls and slabs for a floor to be cast simultaneously - usually in a 7 day cycle.
90 to 180 degress
Soon as possible to allow rapid turnover and reuse of the framework

46. Camber refers to...
Upward deflection of a beam to counter downward deflection by a dead load
Stabilizing members that space across the joists
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
Approximately equal to the combined cost of concrete and steel

47. In specifying the dimensions of a masonry unit - which dimension is states last?
Length - L - of unit
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall
T section
False

48. A snape Tie consits of...
A plastic cone and a loop at each end.
Average annual freezing cycle days - and average annual winter rainfall of the location
The Framework
Tube

49. the most commonly used strength of concrete for tilt-up
The industry's standard for masonry bearing wall structures.
Increase the strength of beam in shear
Greater than the cross-sectional area of the column
4000 psi

50. Cellular-type plan is ______
False
To increase the shear strength of beam above that provided by concrete
Angle section (L)
A sufficient number and adequate lengths of walls must be provided in both principal directions of a building