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1. Which type of EIF is most used?
Air tight
PB pg 703
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.
Cotton ropes - that absorb water from the airspace by capillary action and drain it to the outside.

2. The exposed face of the brick is call _____
W-shaped beams - Steel joints
Stretcher Face
True
Weak in shear

3. The Three Levels of Hot-dip Galvanizing are...
Harsh climates - where onsite masonry and concrete construction are problematic due to freeze hazard and slow curing rate of Portland cement.
Steel
connection beam flanges
G30 - G60 - G120

4. Stirrups are used in Concrete beam ____
One piece anchors
Base Plate
To increase the shear strength of beam above that provided by concrete
That it is welded

5. The maximum distance between fastners for stucco is...
7 in
Iron ore and coke are mixed together in a Furnace
The connections between the walls and the floor or roof decks
Tunnel Form

6. K series are more frequently used because they ____
Henry Bessemer in 1855
Brick ledge
Fall within the range of loads spans that are common in buildings
Gravel

7. Because the Bond Beam is grouted it provides ______
Fall within the range of loads spans that are common in buildings
A suitable base on which the roof or floor trusses and joist can be supported ans anchored
Flexural and Shear.
Temporary structural steel bracing members can also be used to strengthen an opening - they are attached to a panel before lifting and removed after the panel's erections Pg. 620

8. Mechanical couplers are used
Pieces sticking out away from the columes
Where lap splicing of reinforcing bars will produce excessive congestion
Wood and Plywood - Steel - Aluminum - Glass Fiber
Zero (0)

9. Most common used Veneer wall is...
Base Plate
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)
Pre-tensioned concrete
2 to 4 ft

10. PC curtain wall panels are removed from the form as____
1kip=1000psi
Stress / strain = E
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together
Soon as possible to allow rapid turnover and reuse of the framework

11. What is the Fill Made up of?
Gravel
Is embedded in the walls
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.
True

12. a larger space - nearly 1/4 or wider - immediately beyond the capillary space is called what?
Capillary break
AISC Type I Connection
Open - vertical mortar joint in the veneer.
AISC Type II Connection

13. Ways to Protect structural steel from fire are...
Encase steel sections in concrete - OR use a Spray-applied fire protection and gypsum board facing
24
Vertical reinforcing bars
24in

14. Bricks that have core holes are ____
Extruded Bricks
Each course Consists of alternate headers and stretchers
A continuous closure strip
Asymmetry

15. Who designed the kaunthaus bregenz?
Peter Zumther
Chairs
30ft
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks

16. Walers
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.
Heavier members and spans from column to column
Exposed aggregate finish by water washing - Abrasive blasting - acid etching
The Horizontal members of this image for formwork is called ______

17. The Nominal Dimensions of masonry units
Encase steel sections in concrete - OR use a Spray-applied fire protection and gypsum board facing
Is the Specified dimension plus one mortar joint thickness
Mock-up
Zero (0)

18. Is a nonmovment joint in a large concrete slab - and is used when the concrete cannot be placed in one continuous operation.
Exterior cladding - Air space - Flashing - Water resistant backup - and weep holes.
3/8 greater than the multiples of the masonry unit module.
Connections are tightened to a high tensil stress so that shear resistance is provided though fiction between the connect surfaces
Construction Joint

19. Retempering of mortar - if needed - should be generally done within
Out of Plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck
2
2 1/2 hours of the initial preparations of mortar
Live ends

20. 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...
Copper and stainless steel
Shelf angle anchored to the structural frame of the building
Extruded bricks that have through-through hols.
8 in to 30 in

21. A Blast Furnace is a ______
Reinforced concrete member
The Framework
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.
Some veneer walls

22. A snug-Tight Condiction is also called...
T section
Length - L - of unit
I Section
Bearing connection

23. What is an Isolation Joint?

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24. The primary reason for providing core hols in bricks is to...
Provide unifrom drying and firing of bricks
Capillary break
Lug
Metals that contain Iron

25. The Top right hand Beam is called a
Two piece anchor - or which one is embedded in CMU backup and the other is embedded in the Veneers mortar joint
The ground-floor slab of the building is too small to accommodate the precasting of all the walls
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
T section

26. An air space of ____ is recommended for brick veneer
Continuous strip footings - isolated pad footings - drilled pier footings.
Solid unit
52-72
2in pg 645

27. Flashing material must be impervious to...
CMU backed brick veneer
25 ft in the field of the wall and 10 ft from a wall's corner.
True
Water and resistant to puncture - tear - and abrasion

28. A snug-Tight Condiction is also called...
cohesive
Bearing connection
Barrier walls
Depth of the joist in inches

29. Extend the entire thickness of the slab and they ensure that the slab is isolated from the buildings structural componenst so that their movments is not transfered to the slab
Masonry Bearing Wall Structure
Sloped - thinner
Harsh climates - where onsite masonry and concrete construction are problematic due to freeze hazard and slow curing rate of Portland cement.
Isolation Joints

30. Pile
Compressive strength and Flexural tensile bond strength
The Long part extending from the Foundation into the bed rock - as shown in this picture is called _____
Isolated pad footing
Concave

31. Site cast concrete slabs can be one of two types What are they?
where soil is not strong.
Leveling Nut
Each course consists of Strechers
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs

32. tilt-up concrete walls are connected to the slab-on ground with
A continuous concrete closure strip in the slab-on-ground.
cohesive
Vertical
3/8

33. The Middle-THird Rule indicated that ______
A conventional wood light frame building
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.
Reinforced concrete wall - CMU wall - wood or steel stud wall
Expanded metal lath

34. the allowable stress in a material is generally

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35. the coping on a masonry fence wall is generally...
That the thickness of exterior masonry walls progressively increase toward the lower floors.
Increase the strength of beam in shear
Sloped on both sides
Zero (0)

36. The face of the PC wall panels should not be less than ____ thick
1in
1. Girder-primary 2. Beam-secondary 3. joist-tertiary
False
Steel embeds in wall and slab welded together with steel plates

37. Deep foundations use what to ensure that the building does not move
Pile
Providing a anomalous slope in the surface.
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors
Within the plane of the veneer

38. The second coat of stucco is called...
Brown coat
Parallel - wider
Water Proofing
Two terminals of high-voltage electric circuit are brought close together and creating a sutained spark across the space between the terminals

39. G30 is for _____ corrosive enviroment
Hard coat EIFS
Compressive strength and Flexural tensile bond strength
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it
Mildly

40. Rest on and are part of the structural frame of the building - they are used for 2nd and higher floors.
General contractor
Elevated Slabs
A continuous concrete closure strip in the slab-on-ground.
8 in

41. Unfinished bolts are made from
Carbon steel
2 1/2 in
Cohesive
Single-story - rectangular (box type)

42. Name one of the types of foundations of tilt-up walls
Force / Area
Its strenth-to-weight ration is high - which reduces the weight of forms and shores.
Drilled pier footing
Out of Plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck

43. The term FLying form refers to...
Shelf angle anchored to the structural frame of the building
Water Proofing
At each floor level and roof level
A large formwork assembly for concrete walls

44. They provide a weakness in the slab at predetermined locations to force the slab to crak there and not somewhere else.
Control joints in concrete do what?
Cold-formed and light structural steel members - in zinc coating
2 to 4 ft
Structural concrete fill

45. a construction join in a concrete slab on ground is required if the concrete in the slab connot be placed in one continuous operation
Open - vertical mortar joint in the veneer.
8 in
Site cast concrete slabs
True

46. Shores are used for...
High-treated carbon steel
Elevated Slabs and arches - its formwork for arches
A36
Tilt-up Concrete Association

47. The important feature of an Exterior drainage wall is...
Gravel
Control joints - Isolation joints - Construction joints
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes
2in

48. Joists between the walls and the floor slabs of a site-cast reinforced concrete bearing wall are _______ than those in msonry wall and precast-concrete hollow-core slab structure.
Much lower
True
Tougher pg 617
False

49. Suction that pulls wind driven rain into the airspace of a drainage wall takes place on the __________ of the wall
1in
windward face
20 ft
Fibrous

50. This type of form work has gained favor in constructing high-rise reinforced-concrete bearing walls structures
Reinforced concrete member
Leveling Nut
Tunnel Form
Lug