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1. What are some Advantages to using Steel and Joists and Joist Girders?
Concrete masonry Units
Lighter Weight - Easier Erection
Noncohesive Soils
Porland cement - lime - and sand

2. Tilt-up walls are connected to the slab on ground by one of the following two method - name one
Immediately about a flashing
A continuous closure strip
10-13 feet.
2.67 ft

3. High-strength bolts are made from
2 1/2 in
High-treated carbon steel
Stretcher Face
windward face

4. A connection between a floor or roof and a wall must be adequate to sustain the 3 forces What is one of these forces?
Longitudinal bearing Wall Plan.
2 in
Construction Joint
In plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck

5. Compressive Strength Formula
Two terminals of high-voltage electric circuit are brought close together and creating a sutained spark across the space between the terminals
Comressive Strength = load at failure / area = ksi or psi
Ground-Supported slabs area____
field bolting of steel member

6. A connection between a floor or roof and a wall must be adequate to sustain the 3 forces What is one of these forces?
Two flange plates
Veneer wall
By Splitting I sections in half
In plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck

7. The Dark things in the Corner are ____
Columns
25 ft in the field of the wall and 10 ft from a wall's corner.
Scratch coat
tempered glass

8. Tilt-up walls are connected to the slab on ground by one of the following two method - name one
Steel embeds in wall and slab welded together with steel plates
Spraying the mix over a mold
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.
Two terminals of high-voltage electric circuit are brought close together and creating a sutained spark across the space between the terminals

9. Welding can be done by either ____ or ___ welding
Gas or arc
Lighter weight
Device that consists of a mesh made of polymeric strands witch trap the droppings and suspend them permanently above the weep hole
cohesive

10. Plain-Masonry walls are _______
Highly Crosive - Extreme
Sanding smooth the insulation boards for EIFS
2in
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.

11. In a Flemish-bonded wall
Each course Consists of alternate headers and stretchers
The Long part extending from the Foundation into the bed rock - as shown in this picture is called _____
The concrete is casted in controled enviroments and then transported to the contruction job.
every floor

12. Where are deep foundations used?
By Splitting I sections in half
where soil is not strong.
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.
Hoizontal bridging members at the bottom of the joists - and horizontal briging members at the top of the joists

13. Steel floor decks are either form decks or ___________decks.
Continuous strip footings - isolated pad footings - drilled pier footings.
Composite
Walls with overhangs
Masonry Bearing Wall Structure

14. The keyway between precast-concrete hollow core slabs runs ____________ to the bearing walls
Reduced cracking in concret - and reduction in the dimensions of stuctural members
Walls with vertical reinforcement
perpendicular
3000 PSI

15. A masonry unit that has no voids is referred to as
A 100% solid unit
1. Girder-primary 2. Beam-secondary 3. joist-tertiary
Support Pylons
Better

16. Is a nonmovment joint in a large concrete slab - and is used when the concrete cannot be placed in one continuous operation.
Prevent the buckling of longitudinal column bars
Construction Joint
Cohesive
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall

17. The Term prestressed concrete refers to both pretensioned and posttensioned concret
True
The ground-floor slab of the building is too small to accommodate the precasting of all the walls
Reservoir
Some veneer walls

18. The use of ______ concrete is customary
Soft-coat EIFS
4000 psi
Tilt-up Concrete Association
Ground-Supported slabs area____

19. What is the Third Arrow Pointing at?
Alkali resistant
2in
Grouted Space
A reinforced-masonry frame

20. in a simple three-member truss consisting of two rafters and a tie - each member is in...
Either tension or compression
General contractor
Where lap splicing of reinforcing bars will produce excessive congestion
Vertical

21. The Dark things in the Corner are ____
Columns
The industry's standard for masonry bearing wall structures.
Steel fabricator
Compressive strength

22. Concrete is a(an) ____________ material
Water Proofing
HHS
Elastic
Deck that the load is transferred to all four walls - and are generally of site-cast concrete.

23. A concrete member containing reinfrocing bars is called _____
Reinforced concrete member
Exposed aggregate finish by water washing - Abrasive blasting - acid etching
Upward deflection of a beam to counter downward deflection by a dead load
Continuious waterproof membrane which provides a continuous barrior that originates at the backup wall and penetrates through air space and cladding

24. Modulus of elasticity
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.
Extruded Bricks
Stress / strain = E
Lintel angle

25. Materials used for Formwork are___
24
Cinder Block
Wood and Plywood - Steel - Aluminum - Glass Fiber
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.

26. Flashing needs to have these qualities
Solid unit
Gravel
Flexible - durable - resistance to UV radiation.
Sloped on both sides

27. W-Shape is also called _____
Device that consists of a mesh made of polymeric strands witch trap the droppings and suspend them permanently above the weep hole
Wide-Flange section
Henry Bessemer in 1855
Individual elements - tha do not have continuity to resist diaphragm tension - and are anchored to to masonry beams.

28. Pocket formers in a PT concrete slab-on ground are used at...
Live ends
3/5/8x2/1/4x7/5/8
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.
Flat-plate floor - and one-way joist floor

29. Steel reinforcement in concrete elements that are permanently exposed to earth - such as in footing - must have a minimum concrete cover of ____
windward face
3in
By functioning as a water reservior
3/8 in

30. High-strength bolts are made from
Deck that the load is transferred to all four walls - and are generally of site-cast concrete.
Snap Tie
High-treated carbon steel
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together

31. A major benefit of a steel stud backup wall in a in a brick veneer assembly as compaired with a CMU backup wall is its ______
2 to 4 ft
Site cast concrete slabs
Stress at the point of failure
Lighter weight

32. A snug-Tight Condiction is also called...
Compression
The deflection of studs to withstand lateral loads
False
Bearing connection

33. What are some advantages of using concrete for Load Bearing Walls?
EAF - OHF - BOF
Fibrous
Live end
Fire-resitive - mold-free - sound-insulating - relatively inexpensive and durable.

34. A shear connection between a steel beam and a steel column can be made without _________ to the column
connection beam flanges
A continuous concrete closure strip in the slab-on-ground.
Prevent the buckling of longitudinal column bars
Is the Specified dimension plus one mortar joint thickness

35. The units of modulus of elasticity are _______
2in
Psi - ksi - Pa - and GPa
Scaffolding
Pile

36. Retempering of mortar - if needed - should be generally done within
2in
2 1/2 hours of the initial preparations of mortar
Walls with overhangs
5 in

37. The Nominal Dimensions of masonry units
Is the Specified dimension plus one mortar joint thickness
Providing a anomalous slope in the surface.
Getting Iron and Meling it - Then when the Ore is soft - Silica is beat out with a hammer
Stretcher Face

38. The Top right hand Beam is called a
T section
Angle section (L)
10-13 feet.
2 in

39. Plymer based EIFS are also called...
Column Footing
Steel fabricator
Soft-coat EIFS
Water that may reach the backup by traveling over metal anchors or unintentional obstructions in the air space

40. Site-cast is when ____
The concrete is casted in controled enviroments and then transported to the contruction job.
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.
Getting Iron and Meling it - Then when the Ore is soft - Silica is beat out with a hammer
The concrete is cast at the site

41. Mechanical couplers are used
2
Gravity - wind and surface tension
Where lap splicing of reinforcing bars will produce excessive congestion
Single-story - rectangular (box type)

42. The use of ______ concrete is customary
4000 psi
Rain-screen wall
Open - vertical mortar joint in the veneer.
Elevated Slabs and arches - its formwork for arches

43. CMU is _____
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)
0.0025
Base Plate
Cinder Block

44. In what order are roof componants placed:
Exterior cladding and a inner backup wall and a intervening air space between the cladding and the backup
1. decking 2. membrane 3. insulation 4. flashing
True
2

45. Thermal Mass is _____
Where the concrete absorbs the heat from the day and slowly releases it during the night
Compressive strength
Isolation Joints
Collect and channel any water that gets into the air space back to the exterior

46. The oldest Method is also called Turn-of-Nut methos is where...
Approximately equal to the combined cost of concrete and steel
More easily constructable.
Longitudinal bearing Wall Plan.
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

47. In specifying the dimensions of a masonry unit - which dimension is states last?
Single-story - rectangular (box type)
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall
Length - L - of unit

48. Because the Bond Beam is grouted it provides ______
144^2 - 18ft.
A small opening at the bottom of cladding
Footing
A suitable base on which the roof or floor trusses and joist can be supported ans anchored

49. in an ideal pressure-equalized drainage wall
The cladding resists all the wind load
Parallel - wider
2in pg 645
Pre-tensioned concrete

50. A fully cured Stucco is ___ thick
7/8in
Gauge number
Glass fiber-reinforced concrete
1/2 to 3/4 thick

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