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1. a backup wall is required in a...
Better
Veneer wall
Concrete hollow-core slabs - metal deck - or wood deck.
True

2. Drainage wall must have sufficient built-in redundancy to remain infiltration free for the entire life of the building that includes.
Rigid Insulation and Roof cover
A325
Exterior cladding - Air space - Flashing - Water resistant backup - and weep holes.
True

3. Repetitive floor planes are not only structurally more efficient but also _____
A plastic cone and a loop at each end.
Steel pipes
More easily constructable.
Wood and Plywood - Steel - Aluminum - Glass Fiber

4. The Two bottom Left ones are called _____
3/8
True
Tube
3in

5. The arrows next to the Column and the base plate are indications of what?
That it is welded
Pipe Section
1/2 to 3/4 thick
Much lower

6. An ideal pressure-equailzed drainage wall is also referred to as
Rain-screen wall
Chairs
FBX
Columns

7. Modulus of elasticity
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes
Either tension or compression
Stress / strain = E
A special electric wrench is used that induces a predetermined torque bolt

8. What is the bottom piece called?
3/5/8x2/1/4x7/5/8
Approximately equal to the combined cost of concrete and steel
Concrete masonry Units
Footing

9. The structural integrity of a bearing wall building depends on ?
Deck that spans between two opposite walls - and the gravity load on the deck is carried in one direction across the two opposite walls.
Lighter Weight - Easier Erection
A ductile material
The connections between the walls and the floor or roof decks

10. The minimum depth of a K-series joist is ___ and the Max is __
Masonry Bearing Wall Structure
8 and 30 in
Noncombustible and is similar to fiberglass - manufacture of insulation.
3/8

11. When lintel angels and shelf angles are combined in the same angle in a brick veneer clad building - the angle should be treated as a...
Shelf angle anchored to the structural frame of the building
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature
Pipe Section
Scaffolding

12. The Veneer is generally supported at each floor using steel _______
perpendicular
A plastic cone and a loop at each end.
Reinforced concrete or steel frame structure
Shelf angles

13. What is the 2 arrow?
Steel
10-13 feet.
Steel fabricator
Base Plate

14. Pretensioned concrete & tensioned concrete have ______ stress
Lug
same
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs

15. A GFRC curtain wall panel consists of...
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors
At foundation level - over a lintel angle - over a shelf angle - under a window sill.
Roof and Floor
I Section

16. OHF full name is?
Exterior cladding and a inner backup wall and a intervening air space between the cladding and the backup
Mid- to-high rise masonry bearing wall residential buildings
Open-Hearth furnace
Two terminals of high-voltage electric circuit are brought close together and creating a sutained spark across the space between the terminals

17. Unfinished bolts have the same charateristics as ____ steel
Either tension or compression
A36
Greater than the cross-sectional area of the column
I Section

18. DLH series has a depth range of...
Pipe Section
Is embedded in the walls
Walls with vertical reinforcement
52-72

19. The Horizontal Lines in the Middle are called ____
Beams
connection beam flanges
AISC Type II Connection
Concrete masonry Units

20. 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 ____
Gas or arc
Flying forms
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.
36 ksi

21. A typical anchor used with brick veneer and CMU backup wall assembly consist of...
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.
Two piece anchor - or which one is embedded in CMU backup and the other is embedded in the Veneers mortar joint
CMU backed brick veneer
7 in

22. The thickness of a roof or floor deck is generally specified in terms of...
Head Joints
Gauge number
Asymmetry
Steel embeds in wall and slab welded together with steel plates

23. A common type of Form Tie is ____
40 ft
Joists
Shelf angles
Snap Tie

24. 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
8 in to 30 in
F = Force/Area = P (Force) /A (Area)
Isolation Joints
Immediately about a flashing

25. Shelf angles are...
Pre-tensioned concrete
Supported by - and anchored to - the buildings structure
Low-rise buildings generally up to 50 ft
Construction Joint

26. The clear height of openings in a CUM wall is...
3/8 greater than the multiples of the masonry unit module.
Base Plate
Plastic - and Steel chairs with plastic-coated feet
Lintel angle

27. Coats of stucco are usally ____ thick
MOre Crrosive Enviroment - Hot
Lintel angle
3/8
Either tension or compression

28. There should only be _____ gravity load connections - also referred to as bearing supports per panel located as near the columns as possible
A ductile material
Pieces sticking out away from the columes
2
Base Plate

29. Basic Oxygen Furnace did what?
Chairs
Longitudinal bearing Wall Plan.
a nonmovement joint in a large concrete slab. It is used when concrete cannot be placed in on continuous operation.
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it

30. two types of facotry-blended mixes for this finish coat are available - name some
Plortland cement-based mix
Low-rise buildings generally up to 50 ft
S50X30
Lighter member that spans between the girders

31. PC curtain wall panels are removed from the form as____
Water Proofing
Soon as possible to allow rapid turnover and reuse of the framework
Stress / strain = E
Some veneer walls

32. Who Invented the Basic Oxygen Furnace?
Henry Bessemer in 1855
Joists
8 in to 30 in
Reinforced concrete member

33. in a pressure-equalized wall the backup wall must be
Continuous strip footings - isolated pad footings - drilled pier footings.
Air tight
Wide-Flange section
10-13 feet.

34. IRA is a measure of the Tensile Stregth of a brick?
False
Head Joints
Metals that do not contain Metals
Leveling Nut

35. Stack casting is used when
The ground-floor slab of the building is too small to accommodate the precasting of all the walls
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.
Low-rise buildings generally up to 50 ft
Steel

36. How is a T section made?
Basic Oxygen Furnace
Mock-up
True
By Splitting I sections in half

37. An ideal pressure-equailzed drainage wall is also referred to as
AISC Type III Connection
Soft-coat EIFS
Rain-screen wall
Pile

38. The Bottom Right hand Picture is a ______
Porland cement - lime - and sand
Pipe Section
A36
Reinforced-concrete or reinforced masonry beam

39. The term FLying form refers to...
0.0025
Immediately above the flashing
Fall within the range of loads spans that are common in buildings
A large formwork assembly for concrete walls

40. Who designed the kaunthaus bregenz?
A reinforced-masonry frame
Surface tension
Peter Zumther
Support Pylons

41. This CMU type resists water infiltration - one ways
True
Providing an impervious barrier to water
By functioning as a water reservior
Lintel angle

42. A bond Beam is provided at ______
Adding water to the mortar
Discontinuity of walls at foundations and requires a heavy transfer structure.
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)

43. A typical anchor used with brick veneer and CMU backup wall assembly consist of...
Gravel
Isolation Joints
Two piece anchor - or which one is embedded in CMU backup and the other is embedded in the Veneers mortar joint
Flexural and Shear.

44. In a brick veneer assembly vertical expansion joints should be provided at a maximum distance of...

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45. Effloresecence
Gas or arc
Control joints - Isolation joints - Construction joints
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall
Continuous strip footings - isolated pad footings - drilled pier footings.

46. The required color of a stucco surface is...
At foundation level - over a lintel angle - over a shelf angle - under a window sill.
The Horizontal members of this image for formwork is called ______
Low-rise buildings generally up to 50 ft
Interegral to the mix of the finish coat pg 702

47. A pour stop is generally used with
Scaffolding
Floor decks
8 in
That it is welded

48. The minimum required width of airspace between brick veneer and CMU backup wall is...
That it is welded
2in
Wood and Plywood - Steel - Aluminum - Glass Fiber
5 in

49. Twist-off Bolt method is...
Tilt-up Concrete Association
Collect and channel any water that gets into the air space back to the exterior
A special electric wrench is used that induces a predetermined torque bolt
Expanded metal lath

50. Mortar-Capturing device is a...
cohesive
Device that consists of a mesh made of polymeric strands witch trap the droppings and suspend them permanently above the weep hole
Steel Joist Institute
Reinfocing bars are provided at the top and bottom of the beams