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1. Flashing in a drainage wall is a _____
2 in
That the thickness of exterior masonry walls progressively increase toward the lower floors.
Continuious waterproof membrane which provides a continuous barrior that originates at the backup wall and penetrates through air space and cladding
Grouted Space

2. What is the 2 arrow?
PB pg 703
Base Plate
The concrete is cast at the site
Mildly

3. What does TCA stand for?
The industry's standard for masonry bearing wall structures.
Failure stress / allowable stress
Tilt-up Concrete Association
True

4. In specifying the dimensions of a masonry unit - which dimension is states last?
Footing
Adding water to the mortar
Length - L - of unit
Live end

5. Name one of the types of foundations of tilt-up walls
Encase steel sections in concrete - OR use a Spray-applied fire protection and gypsum board facing
Hollow structural section
Drilled pier footing
General contractor

6. W-Shape is also called _____
Sloped on both sides
Stress at the point of failure
Modular
Wide-Flange section

7. If you are moving the prefabricated formwork for each bay of the floor as a complete unit and the put it into position with a crane This is refereed to as ____
A suitable base on which the roof or floor trusses and joist can be supported ans anchored
Flying forms
Device that consists of a mesh made of polymeric strands witch trap the droppings and suspend them permanently above the weep hole
Leveling Nut

8. Cold formings is when __
Gravel
Wide-Flange section
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature
HHS

9. Stressing-end assembly is called a ____
AISC Type II Connection
Live end
All exterior walls resisted the lateral loads individually
Gravel

10. Steel decks are availiable in two catagories ___ and ____
Leveling Nut
Psi - ksi - Pa - and GPa
Footing
Roof and Floor

11. the GFRC skin is obtained by
A special electric wrench is used that induces a predetermined torque bolt
Pipe Section
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.
Spraying the mix over a mold

12. Unfinished bolts have the same charateristics as ____ steel
Better
A36
The Long part extending from the Foundation into the bed rock - as shown in this picture is called _____
Bed Joints

13. What does HHS stand for?
Extruded bricks that have through-through hols.
50
7 in
Hollow structural section

14. The two Strength Properties of Mortar are ______
Greater than the cross-sectional area of the column
Fire-resitive - mold-free - sound-insulating - relatively inexpensive and durable.
Tension
Compressive strength and Flexural tensile bond strength

15. Is that the walls that are required for load-bearing purposes may also function as shear walls in addition to enclosing and dividing spaces.
Hoizontal bridging members at the bottom of the joists - and horizontal briging members at the top of the joists
Pile
Masonry Bearing Wall Structure
Rigid Insulation and Roof cover

16. In a multisory building - shelf angles are typically used at...
Low-rise buildings generally up to 50 ft
Soft-coat EIFS
Providing a anomalous slope in the surface.
Each floor level

17. Blast Furnace is the process by which ______
stress=force/area
3/8 greater than the multiples of the masonry unit module.
Iron ore and coke are mixed together in a Furnace
Copper and stainless steel

18. Wicks consist of...
Cotton ropes - that absorb water from the airspace by capillary action and drain it to the outside.
The time between the end of concreting and the removal of the forms
A sufficient number and adequate lengths of walls must be provided in both principal directions of a building
A felexible connection that allows the ends of the beam to rotate under the load.

19. The second coat of stucco is called...
Water that may reach the backup by traveling over metal anchors or unintentional obstructions in the air space
Brown coat
A Waffle Slab
Greater Floor to Floor height - COncentrated Loads - Complex layout floor and roof frame - and Fire protection

20. The most common used 28 day strength of concrete of PC curtian wall panels is ______
Head Joints
Metals that do not contain Metals
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together
5000 psi

21. In a brick veneer assembly - weep holes are required at...
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.
Cross bearing Walls plane
Perpendicular to the main axis of the building.
Immediately above the flashing

22. Clay is _______
Two flange plates
Water Proofing
cohesive
Cranes and rails

23. Flashing needs to have these qualities
52-72
Flexible - durable - resistance to UV radiation.
Compressive strength and Flexural tensile bond strength
A36

24. Site cast concrete slabs can be one of two types What are they?
3/8
A continuous concrete closure strip in the slab-on-ground.
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs
Water and resistant to puncture - tear - and abrasion

25. Pocket formers in a PT concrete slab-on ground are used at...
Live ends
A sufficient number and adequate lengths of walls must be provided in both principal directions of a building
Asymmetry
Steel embeds in wall and slab welded together with steel plates

26. Laminated glass can be made with ____________ or annealed glass
Isolation Joints
Connected members have been bolted together using spud wretch with the full force of a person
Comressive Strength = load at failure / area = ksi or psi
tempered glass

27. Coats of stucco are usally ____ thick
Unequal distribution of air pressure on the exterior of the wall and in the airspace between the cladding an d the backup wall.
3/8
Elevated Slabs
Flexural and Shear.

28. What is a construction joint?
Wider space in an otherwize narrow joint
Fall within the range of loads spans that are common in buildings
a nonmovement joint in a large concrete slab. It is used when concrete cannot be placed in on continuous operation.
Reinforced concrete wall - CMU wall - wood or steel stud wall

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30. Conventional stucco is also called...
Reinforced concrete or steel frame structure
Portland cement stucco
Deck that spans between two opposite walls - and the gravity load on the deck is carried in one direction across the two opposite walls.
Continuious waterproof membrane which provides a continuous barrior that originates at the backup wall and penetrates through air space and cladding

31. Gravity generally affects water penetration through an exposed horizontal surface of a wall and can counted by
25 ft in the field of the wall and 10 ft from a wall's corner.
30 ft
Type S
Providing a anomalous slope in the surface.

32. The Dark things in the Corner are ____
Continuious waterproof membrane which provides a continuous barrior that originates at the backup wall and penetrates through air space and cladding
3/8 greater than the multiples of the masonry unit module.
Columns
Strands

33. Horizontal Mortar joints are also called ______
3 in
2 1/2 hours of the initial preparations of mortar
Bed Joints
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.

34. What is the yield stress of A36 steel?
Walls with vertical reinforcement
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.
A felexible connection that allows the ends of the beam to rotate under the load.
36 ksi

35. What is the formula for strain?
Masonry Bearing Wall Structure
25 ft and not more than 10 ft from the walls corner
=change in length/original length
Sanding smooth the insulation boards for EIFS

36. The cost of a tilt up wall system compares _____ with that of a masonry bearing wall system
Favorably
Shelf angle anchored to the structural frame of the building
3000 psi
Out of Plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck

37. The grade of A992 yields strength of ____ksi
The size of the masonry that the manufacture would like to achieve.
Continuous strip footings - isolated pad footings - drilled pier footings.
50
Square - rectangular or round

38. Weep holes must be provided ______ to the flashing
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it
Immediately above
Elevated Slabs and arches - its formwork for arches
Pieces sticking out away from the columes

39. Arch welding is where
Two terminals of high-voltage electric circuit are brought close together and creating a sutained spark across the space between the terminals
Gravel
perpendicular
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

40. CMU is _____
Compressive strength and Flexural tensile bond strength
Cinder Block
Alkali resistant
AISC Type III Connection

41. What does TCA stand for?
Bearing connection
A ductile material
Stiff
Tilt-up Concrete Association

42. The The Fourth Arrow is Pointing at
At each floor level and roof level
Mildly
Bearing connection
Column Footing

43. a backup wall is required in a...
Two piece wire anchors
Immediately above the flashing
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it
Veneer wall

44. Safety Margin formula
Actual strength / required strength
connection beam flanges
3/5/8x2/1/4x7/5/8
Percast at the construction site

45. The material in an arch is primarily in _________
Asymmetry
The Vertical lumber on this image of formwork is called ______
Elevated Slabs and arches - its formwork for arches
Compression

46. Drainage wall must have sufficient built-in redundancy to remain infiltration free for the entire life of the building that includes.
1in
Exterior cladding - Air space - Flashing - Water resistant backup - and weep holes.
3000 PSI
L-shaped sheet metal or plastic element - that has a vertical leg that has openings to let the water out

47. IF the bottom piece was extended what would we call it?
A reinforced-masonry frame
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
Lug
50

48. A bond Beam in a Masonry bearing wall building is required for structural reasons
8 in to 30 in
At each floor level and roof level
Vertical reinforcing bars
Providing an impervious barrier to water

49. A Mortar capturing device in a brick veneer assembly is used
Immediately about a flashing
Some interior concrete slabs-on-ground
To increase the shear strength of beam above that provided by concrete
AISC Type III Connection

50. In a PT concrete slab on groud - the tendons are stressed from the
Force / Area
W - S - HP - M
Construction Joint
Live end

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