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1. A doubly rienforced beam is one in which






2. The Veneer is generally supported at each floor using steel _______






3. The Middle-THird Rule indicated that ______






4. In high-rised residential buildings with site cast reinforced concrete bearing walls - the floors and the roofs are generally constructed of...






5. Factor for safety formula






6. The Top right hand Beam is called a






7. In a Multisotry steel frame building - the columns are generally spiced every ____ floors






8. The required color of a stucco surface is...






9. What is the yield stress of A36 steel?






10. A snug-Tight Condiction is also called...






11. A typical anchor used with brick veneer and CMU backup wall assembly consist of...






12. The most commonly used steel for framming menbers is_______






13. IRA is a measure of the Tensile Stregth of a brick?






14. CMU is _____






15. What is the 2 arrow?






16. Most Structural Steel sections are produced using _______






17. The face of the PC wall panels should not be less than ____ thick






18. In a tilt up wall constuction system - the walls are...






19. What does SJI stand for?






20. tilt-up concrete walls are connected to the slab-on ground with






21. Pretensioned concrete & tensioned concrete have ______ stress






22. Scaffold-types shores are usally made from






23. the stirrups in a reinforced concrete beam are used to...






24. Plain-Masonry walls are _______






25. Effloresecence






26. Yeild strength of steel is also referred to as the ______






27. The greater the _____ the great the torsion created - which increases the cost of the structure.






28. the foundations for concrete tilt-up walls constits of...






29. Joists Girders has ______ than a Joist






30. Bricks and Blocks are called ____






31. the stirrups in a reinforced concrete beam are used to...






32. Flashing must be accompanied by _____






33. Stressing-end assembly is called a ____






34. PC curtain wall panels are removed from the form as____






35. A load-bearing wall structure works best when the floor plan of the building has






36. A snape Tie consits of...






37. Conventional stucco is also called...






38. Deep foundations use what to ensure that the building does not move






39. In relation to it's compressive strength - the tensile strength of concrete is...






40. The simplest cellular-type plan is a_______






41. In a Multisotry steel frame building - the columns are generally spiced every ____ floors






42. Bricks are anchored to the frame on every floor or every other floor?






43. The use of ONe-way decks yields the following two types of bearing wall planes name one?






44. W section I beam with a nominal depth of 16' and a weight of 50 lbs for 2 foot






45. Flashing needs to have these qualities






46. the allowable stress in a material is generally


47. Tilt-up walls are connected to the slab on ground by one of the following two method - name one






48. In specifying the dimensions of a masonry unit - which dimension is states last?






49. Inside of Pressed concret the prestressing cables are called____






50. High-strength bolts are made from