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1. Materials used for Formwork are___
Continuous strip footings - isolated pad footings - drilled pier footings.
Wood and Plywood - Steel - Aluminum - Glass Fiber
Floor decks
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it

2. two types of facotry-blended mixes for this finish coat are available - name some
Plortland cement-based mix
One piece anchors
Elastic
20 ft

3. The most common used size of brick is...
Solid unit
3/5/8x2/1/4x7/5/8
Workablity - water rentivity - and water tightness
Actual strength / required strength

4. Where are deep foundations used?
Acrylic polymer-based mix
False
Asymmetry
where soil is not strong.

5. The arrows next to the Column and the base plate are indications of what?
FBX
Cohesive
laminated glass - so that glass shards don't rain down death.
That it is welded

6. 1 kip = ____psi
Less than it's ultimate stress
Shelf angle anchored to the structural frame of the building
1kip=1000psi
Grade 50 steel

7. Basic Oxygen Furnace did what?
K-series - LH series - DHL series
40 ft
shear force=force/area
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it

8. BOF full name is _______
Water and resistant to puncture - tear - and abrasion
Basic Oxygen Furnace
Scaffolding
Lapped members - clamped together with specially made clamps - and screw-based metal assembly

9. The Horizontal Lines in the Middle are called ____
Beams
The Vertical lumber on this image of formwork is called ______
A continuous closure strip
Hoizontal bridging members at the bottom of the joists - and horizontal briging members at the top of the joists

10. The stregth of concrete in a residential concrete slab-on=ground is generally
connection beam flanges
3000 PSI
Exposed aggregate finish by water washing - Abrasive blasting - acid etching
That it is welded

11. The bearing strength of a material is closely related to it's ___________
Column Footing
Compressive strength
Elastic-plastic
Depth of the joist in inches

12. Capillary break is a...
Wider space in an otherwize narrow joint
The industry's standard for masonry bearing wall structures.
EAF - OHF - BOF
G30 - G60 - G120

13. A Column Spice is approximately ___ ft above the lower floor so that the erector can use the floor as a platform to make the connection.
The concrete is casted in controled enviroments and then transported to the contruction job.
2
4
Heavier members and spans from column to column

14. In what order are roof componants placed:
Tougher pg 617
Fibrous
1. decking 2. membrane 3. insulation 4. flashing
Gravity - wind and surface tension

15. What is ultimate stress?
A continuous concrete closure strip in the slab-on-ground.
2in pg 645
Stress at the point of failure
Strength of it - and weakens the strength of the wall.

16. Use of the load bearing masonry wall system became extinct for a while and was revived
Vertical reinforcing bars
True
Exposed aggregate finish by water washing - Abrasive blasting - acid etching
After World War 2

17. Pocket formers in a PT concrete slab-on ground are used at...
Live ends
CMU backed brick veneer
1. decking 2. membrane 3. insulation 4. flashing
Dead End

18. The GFRC skin is typically
Hoizontal bridging members at the bottom of the joists - and horizontal briging members at the top of the joists
1/2 to 3/4 thick
Acrylic polymer-based mix
Increase the strength of beam in shear

19. G60 is for ____ corrosive enviroment
MOre Crrosive Enviroment - Hot
A continuous concrete closure strip in the slab-on-ground.
Shelf angle anchored to the structural frame of the building
3/8

20. A connection between a floor or roof and a wall must be adequate to sustain the 3 forces What is one of these forces?
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall
Two terminals of high-voltage electric circuit are brought close together and creating a sutained spark across the space between the terminals
3/8 greater than the multiples of the masonry unit module.

21. Historical load bearing masonry structures were designed assuming that
Extruded bricks that have through-through hols.
All exterior walls resisted the lateral loads individually
MOre Crrosive Enviroment - Hot
7 in

22. What is the formula for stress?
Shelf angles
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it
stress=force/area
Steel Joist Institute

23. Modulus of elasticity refers to how _____ a material is...
Stiff
Deck that spans between two opposite walls - and the gravity load on the deck is carried in one direction across the two opposite walls.
Sloped on both sides
The exterior cladding in a pressure equalized wall

24. Capillary break is a...
2
30 ft
A reinforced-masonry frame
Wider space in an otherwize narrow joint

25. The Top right hand Beam is called a
T section
Grade 50 steel
Bolting the member and rightening them with a spud wrench using full force
8 and 30 in

26. Slagwool is _____
Compression
Noncombustible and is similar to fiberglass - manufacture of insulation.
Workablity - water rentivity - and water tightness
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall

27. Steel joist are braced against instabilty by
Extruded Bricks
Beams and Columns
windward face
Hoizontal bridging members at the bottom of the joists - and horizontal briging members at the top of the joists

28. Name one of the types of foundations of tilt-up walls
3/8 in
Low rise building 1 to 4 stories
Allow water washing of concrete after stripping the forms
Drilled pier footing

29. Steel decks are availiable in two catagories ___ and ____
Roof and Floor
Flying forms
Low-rise buildings generally up to 50 ft
Each course consists of Strechers

30. An isolated concrete slab-on-ground requires what types of joints?
Molded bricks
Copper and stainless steel
Control joints - Isolation joints - Construction joints
125psi

31. The face of the PC wall panels should not be less than ____ thick
1in
Steel
Glass fiber-reinforced concrete
A conventional wood light frame building

32. S-Shape is also called ____
Allow water washing of concrete after stripping the forms
American Standard Shape
Better
perpendicular

33. If you put less lime in Morar this decreases
Supported by - and anchored to - the buildings structure
Floor decks
Failure stress / allowable stress
Strength of it - and weakens the strength of the wall.

34. How high off the does glass have to remain tempered?

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35. Drainage wall must have sufficient built-in redundancy to remain infiltration free for the entire life of the building that includes.
Immediately about a flashing
Exterior cladding - Air space - Flashing - Water resistant backup - and weep holes.
24
4000 psi

36. Effloresecence
Open - vertical mortar joint in the veneer.
Column Footing
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall
The exterior cladding in a pressure equalized wall

37. Where the concrete absorbs the heat from the day and slowly releases it during the night
Thermal Mass
Exposed aggregate finish by water washing - Abrasive blasting - acid etching
Rain-screen wall
The size of the masonry that the manufacture would like to achieve.

38. Retempering of mortar - if needed - should be generally done within
A 100% solid unit
2 1/2 hours of the initial preparations of mortar
Leveling Nut
Grade 50 steel

39. The Horizontal Lines in the Middle are called ____
A special electric wrench is used that induces a predetermined torque bolt
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
T section
Beams

40. Stripping time is ___
Providing a anomalous slope in the surface.
True
The time between the end of concreting and the removal of the forms
Strength of it - and weakens the strength of the wall.

41. What is the bottom piece called?
Footing
Chairs
125psi
Mildly

42. Effloresecence
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall
Mid- to-high rise masonry bearing wall residential buildings
Adding water to the mortar
FBX

43. A ____ sized gap is needed between adjacent lengths to provide for the shelf angles expansion.
3/8 in
Column Footing
Lighter weight
3 in

44. Laminated glass can be made with ____________ or annealed glass
tempered glass
True
Reduced cracking in concret - and reduction in the dimensions of stuctural members
Tube

45. Flashing material must be impervious to...
The Vertical lumber on this image of formwork is called ______
Horizontal reinforcement
Water and resistant to puncture - tear - and abrasion
4

46. W shapes the interior serfaces of the flanges are ____ and are ____ than the S shape
Single-story - rectangular (box type)
Sloped on both sides
Parallel - wider
At foundation level - over a lintel angle - over a shelf angle - under a window sill.

47. in an ideal pressure-equalized drainage wall
Pipe Section
Heavier members and spans from column to column
The Framework
The cladding resists all the wind load

48. The Bottom Right hand Picture is a ______
Bearing connection
Pipe Section
Fall within the range of loads spans that are common in buildings
Support Pylons

49. Which type of EIF is most used?
Isolated pad footing
PB pg 703
Open-Hearth furnace
8 and 30 in

50. in a simple three-member truss consisting of two rafters and a tie - each member is in...
3/8
Low rise building 1 to 4 stories
Either tension or compression
32 in on center and not more than 18 in vertically