SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Bridge Design
Start Test
Study First
Subject
:
engineering
Instructions:
Answer 47 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. A device located between the bridge structure and a supporting pier or abutment
Tension Member
Bearing
Truss
Gusset Plate
2. A structural member connecting the upper and lower chords on the diagonal (as opposed to the vertical).
Diagonal
Yield Stress
Stringer
Rivet
3. A structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
Lower Chord
Girder
Bridge
Cantilever
4. A retaining wall that supports the ends of a bridge. It may be built of stone - bedrock - wood - iron - or concrete.
Girder
Abutment
Fracture-Critical Member
Substructure
5. A structural member that projects beyond a supporting column or wall and is supported only at one end.
Span
Bridge
Cantilever
Girder
6. A truss member that is subjected to compressive forces.
Compression Member
Bridge
Yield Stress
Substructure
7. A horizontal structural member supporting verticle loads by bending
Compression Member
Fracture-Critical Member
Girder
Post
8. The bridge structure that supports the superstructure and transfers loads from it to the ground or bedrock. the main components are abutments - piers - footings - and pilings.
Torsion
Upper Chord
Substructure
Chord
9. A structural steel member with two flat flanges separated by a horizontal steel plate (web) to form an 'H'
Shear
Node
Gusset Plate
H member
10. A bridge support bearing that accommodates thermal expansion and contraction of the superstructure through a rocking action
Girder
H member
Rocker Bearing
Splice Plate
11. In a bridge truss - a diagonal timber or support that slants away from the midpoint of the bridge.
Base
Counter brace
Torsion
Compression Member
12. The stress above which permanent (plastic) deformation occurs
Stiffener
H member
Yield Stress
Counter brace
13. The vertical portion of an 'I' beam or girder
Web
Splice Plate
Rivet
Truss Bridge
14. A welded truss perpendicular to the main trusses - used to support the deck
Web
Floor Truss
Culvert
Truss Bridge
15. The bottom horizontal member of a truss. It extends the length of the deck truss but consists of shorter chord members spliced together
Bridge
Lower Chord
Gusset Plate
Rocker Bearing
16. A drain - pipe - or channel that allows water to pass under a road - railroad - or embankment.
Superstructure
Tension
Culvert
Bearing
17. A basic underlying element- infrastructure. The bottom or lowest part of a structure.
Base
Pile
Node
Lower Chord
18. A force that causes part of a material to slide past one another in opposite direction
Pier
Lower Chord
Bridge
Shear
19. Frameworks of beams or girders used for support. A truss can be metal (steel) or of wooden construction.
Girder
Dead Load
Web
Truss
20. The top horizontal member of a truss. the upper chord extends the length of the deck truss but it is made uyp of shorter chord memebers joined at nodes.
Upper Chord
Span
Rocker Bearing
Cantilever
21. A beam aligned with the length of a span that supports the deck
Stringer
Truss Bridge
Counter brace
Span
22. A loss of metal usually resulting from corrosion - that reduces the thickness of a steel bridge component
Truss
Section Loss
Chord
Culvert
23. Horizontal timbers or support at top and bottom between which vertical posts and diagonal braces are attached. (counter braces)
Splice Plate
Stringer
Chord
Member
24. A vertical structure that supports the ends of a multispan superstructure at a location between abutments
Node
Web
Pier
Floor Truss
25. A force that pushes or presses toward the center of an object or from the ends toward the middle of a structural member. Compression shortens the material. It is the opposite of tension.
Abutment
Culvert
Post
Compression
26. The weight of all columns - beams - floors - roadways - arches - and other components of a bridge. The weight of the bridge itself.
Dead Load
Culvert
Base
Torsion
27. A metal fastener
Stringer
Rivet
Pile
Torsion
28. The horizontal space between two supports of a structure
Truss Bridge
Girder
Stiffener
Span
29. Bracing that spans between the main beams or girders of a bridge and assists in the distribution on loads
Counter brace
Live Load
Torsion
Diaphram
30. Any member of a truss that is subjected to tensile forces
Diaphram
Tension Member
Bridge
Span
31. In metal - a brittle cracking mechanism caused by repitive loading over time
Fatigue
Live Load
Lower Chord
Section Loss
32. A bridge bearing comprising of a single roller or a group of rollers housed so as to permit longitun=dinal expansion or contraction
Culvert
Node
Roller Bearing
Shear
33. A connecting point where the upper and lower chords were joined
Node
Diaphram
Vertical
Counter brace
34. The bridge structure that receives and supports traffic loads and in turn transfers those loads to the substructure.
Roller Bearing
Floor Truss
Shear
Superstructure
35. A bridge status assigned by the FHA under the National Bridge Inspection Standards. This type of bridge was built to the standards of the day but are not used today. These bridges are not considered inherently unsafe - but they may have lane widths -
Base
Functionally Obsolete
Lower Chord
Dead Load
36. A plate that joins two chord members of a truss of that is used to extend the length of a member
Bridge
Diagonal
Bearing
Splice Plate
37. A structural steel shape - such as an angle - that is attached to a flat plate such as a gusset plate or the web of a member to add compression strength
Node
Chord
Stiffener
Section Loss
38. A force that stretches or pulls on a material. Tension lengthens a material - any material.
H member
Tension
Tension Member
Node
39. A steel member within a non - load- path- redundnat structure - the failure of which would cause a partial or total collapse of the structure
H member
Pier
Fracture-Critical Member
Fatigue
40. The vertical member connecting the upper and lower chords at the like- numbered nodes.
Fatigue
Pile
Vertical
Fracture-Critical Member
41. Act of twisting; twisting of a body by two opposing forces
Vertical
Torsion
Chord
Web
42. A heavy column of wood - steel - or reinforced concrete sunk vertically into a stream or riverbed to support a bridge (also commonly used for docks and wharves). When the stream or river is not stabe (soft silt or mud) pilings or groups of piles are
Truss
Span
Rocker Bearing
Pile
43. A bridge typically composed of straight structural elements connected to form triangles.
Post
Truss Bridge
Splice Plate
Span
44. The stress a bridge must carry in the form of cars - trucks - people - trains - etc. This weight or load is constantly changing. Hopefully a bridge will carry MANY times it's own weight.
Truss Bridge
Lower Chord
H member
Live Load
45. The vertical or upright supports.
Post
Compression Member
Stiffener
Yield Stress
46. An individual angle - beam - plate - or built- up piece intended to become an integral part of an assembled frame or structure
Substructure
Member
Live Load
Stiffener
47. A metal plate used to unite multiple structural members of a truss
Girder
Functionally Obsolete
Gusset Plate
Node