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1. tilt-up concrete walls are connected to the slab-on ground with
Tension
A continuous concrete closure strip in the slab-on-ground.
Air tight
Zinc

2. A bond beam in masonry bearing wall building
Glass fiber-reinforced concrete
Is embedded in the walls
Soft-coat EIFS
Highly Crosive - Extreme

3. Slagwool is _____
annealed glass
Noncombustible and is similar to fiberglass - manufacture of insulation.
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
A sufficient number and adequate lengths of walls must be provided in both principal directions of a building

4. The primary purpose of longitudinal steel bars in a reinforced concrete beam is to overcome the weakness of concrete in ______
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall
Wide-Flange section
Tension
The Long part extending from the Foundation into the bed rock - as shown in this picture is called _____

5. Materials used for Formwork are___
Stress at the point of failure
Isolation Joints
AISC Type III Connection
Wood and Plywood - Steel - Aluminum - Glass Fiber

6. Arch welding is where
Two piece wire anchors
Two terminals of high-voltage electric circuit are brought close together and creating a sutained spark across the space between the terminals
To ensure stability against overturning by wind loads
Hollow structural section

7. W-Shape are mostly used for ____
A plastic cone and a loop at each end.
laminated glass - so that glass shards don't rain down death.
Prevent the buckling of longitudinal column bars
Beams and Columns

8. Site-cast is when ____
The courses alternate between headers ans stretchers
The concrete is cast at the site
Getting Iron and Meling it - Then when the Ore is soft - Silica is beat out with a hammer
T section

9. The Dark things in the Corner are ____
Collect and channel any water that gets into the air space back to the exterior
Favorably
General contractor
Columns

10. This Grade of Steel is The most popular in use in buildings
S50X30
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks
Steel pipes
A992

11. Formwork is refereed to as
Supported by - and anchored to - the buildings structure
The contained molds in which the concrete is cast
HHS
Compressive strength

12. A Tunnel form consists of...
Hard coat EIFS
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.
Lapped members - clamped together with specially made clamps - and screw-based metal assembly
2

13. The Long part extending from the Foundation into the bed rock - as shown in this picture is called _____
Sloped on both sides
Increase the strength of beam in shear
Pile
Mild

14. Semirigid Connection is also called...
AISC Type III Connection
7/8in
Wider space in an otherwize narrow joint
A large formwork assembly for concrete walls

15. What is the first thing a contractor does at a construction site?
30 ft
50
Gravel
excavation

16. Semirigid Connection is also called...
AISC Type III Connection
Gravity load support to the veneer
Wood and Plywood - Steel - Aluminum - Glass Fiber
Increase the strength of beam in shear

17. What is the 2 arrow?
A conventional wood light frame building
Base Plate
Steel embeds in wall and slab welded together with steel plates
Metals that do not contain Metals

18. The bending stresses along the neutral axis of a beam are _________
connection beam flanges
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall
Zero (0)
A 100% solid unit

19. What is the formula for stress?
A992
Reservoir
Reservoir
stress=force/area

20. S shapes the interior surfaces of the flanges are ____ and are ____ than the W shape
Sloped - thinner
Leveling Nut
Wide-Flange section
Column Footing

21. The material in an arch is primarily in _________
Compression
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
Mock-up
Length - L - of unit

22. Details of connection between Steel Framing members are generally prepared by the buildings
Live end
Isolated pad footing
Steel fabricator
The connections between the walls and the floor or roof decks

23. The steel anchors that connect the veneer to the CMU backup wall are...
Two piece wire anchors
Two piece anchor - or which one is embedded in CMU backup and the other is embedded in the Veneers mortar joint
Gravity - wind and surface tension
240 in =20ft

24. PCI recommends a minimum horizontal clearance of ___ of precast panels from the buildings structural frame
CMU backed brick veneer
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.
Highly Crosive - Extreme
2in

25. What is the yield stress of A36 steel?
A continuous closure strip
Bearing connection
Is the Specified dimension plus one mortar joint thickness
36 ksi

26. Girder is...
Pieces sticking out away from the columes
Wood and Plywood - Steel - Aluminum - Glass Fiber
Beams
24

27. A K-series steel joist that is 20 in deep cannot space more than ____
Leveling Nut
field bolting of steel member
Grade 50 steel
40 ft

28. Retempering of mortar - if needed - should be generally done within
2in
2 1/2 hours of the initial preparations of mortar
Continuious waterproof membrane which provides a continuous barrior that originates at the backup wall and penetrates through air space and cladding
Reinforced concrete member

29. A concrete tilt-up system is limited to...
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.
True
Each course consists of Strechers
Low-rise buildings generally up to 50 ft

30. The Term Tendons includes Strands
Stiff
1in
25 ft in the field of the wall and 10 ft from a wall's corner.
True

31. Most common used Veneer wall is...
Drilled pier footing
A horizontal butt join in cladding
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)
Copper and stainless steel

32. The I-section can be classified into four shapes. What are they?
W - S - HP - M
Type N
The exterior cladding in a pressure equalized wall
Peter Zumther

33. A vapor retarder is required under
Some interior concrete slabs-on-ground
Vertical
Two piece wire anchors
Base Plate

34. A bond Beam is provided at ______
A conventional wood light frame building
Flying forms
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.
Sloped toward the interior roof

35. Name one of the types of foundations of tilt-up walls
Head Joints
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)
Square - rectangular or round
Drilled pier footing

36. Flashing must be accompanied by _____
W - S - HP - M
Stress / strain = E
Weep holes
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.

37. Factor for safety formula
Strength of it - and weakens the strength of the wall.
Failure stress / allowable stress
True
Greater than the cross-sectional area of the column

38. An ideal pressure-equailzed drainage wall is also referred to as
Type S
Strength of it - and weakens the strength of the wall.
Rain-screen wall
Longitudinal bearing Wall Plan.

39. 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
Isolation Joints
Walls that are distributed almost uniformly in both principle and directions - walls at the uper floor that align with the walls at the lower floor - walls that are continuous up to the foundations
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature
Deck that spans between two opposite walls - and the gravity load on the deck is carried in one direction across the two opposite walls.

40. A bond beam in masonry bearing wall building must be a...
Reinforced-concrete or reinforced masonry beam
Columns
3/5/8x2/1/4x7/5/8
Solid unit

41. Cellular-type plan is ______
A sufficient number and adequate lengths of walls must be provided in both principal directions of a building
7 in
Where lap splicing of reinforcing bars will produce excessive congestion
7 in

42. The backup wall in brick veneer wall assemby consists of a...
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes
Connected members have been bolted together using spud wretch with the full force of a person
Reinforced concrete wall - CMU wall - wood or steel stud wall
True

43. Who designed the kaunthaus bregenz?
Hard coat EIFS
8 in
Peter Zumther
2 to 4 ft

44. Welding can be done by either ____ or ___ welding
Gas or arc
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.
Reinforced concrete or steel frame structure
Plortland cement-based mix

45. Roof deck is generally topped with _____
perpendicular
Rigid Insulation and Roof cover
=change in length/original length
Highly Crosive - Extreme

46. The keyway between precast-concrete hollow core slabs runs ____________ to the bearing walls
8 in
Elevated Slabs
Mock-up
perpendicular

47. What is the Fill Made up of?
Column Footing
Gravel
25 ft and not more than 10 ft from the walls corner
1in

48. The maximum spacing for one piece - corrigated anchor or an adjustable - two piece wire anchor is limited by the code to one anchor for every _____
Bed Joints
Portland cement stucco
2.67 ft
Grade 50 steel

49. Mechanical couplers are used
Elastic
S50X30
Where lap splicing of reinforcing bars will produce excessive congestion
Within the plane of the veneer

50. Who Manufactureres joists and joist girders?
SJI
T section
Some interior concrete slabs-on-ground
Upward deflection of a beam to counter downward deflection by a dead load