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1. Wicks or Tubes need a spacing of ____ to go with open-head joints
1. Girder-primary 2. Beam-secondary 3. joist-tertiary
Water and resistant to puncture - tear - and abrasion
16 in
32 in on center and not more than 18 in vertically

2. What type of glass is used for places above walkways with no overhead protection

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3. The The Fourth Arrow is Pointing 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.
Floor decks
Live ends
Column Footing

4. Panelized construction eliminates _____ - increasing on-site workers' safety
Two piece wire anchors
Gravity load support to the veneer
Scaffolding
Basic Oxygen Furnace

5. A Simple Connection is...
Lighter Weight - Easier Erection
8 in
A felexible connection that allows the ends of the beam to rotate under the load.
Fall within the range of loads spans that are common in buildings

6. In a PT concrete slab on groud - the tendons are stressed from the
Live end
Pile
Grouted and reinforced with horizontal steel dowels
Is the Specified dimension plus one mortar joint thickness

7. Steel joist are braced against instabilty by
M -S -N -O
Beams and Columns
Hoizontal bridging members at the bottom of the joists - and horizontal briging members at the top of the joists
Width - W - of Unit

8. _____ are generally kept at the construction site and become the basis for judgement of all panels produced by the precast plant
Mock-up
At foundation level - over a lintel angle - over a shelf angle - under a window sill.
3/8
16 in

9. IRA is a measure of the Tensile Stregth of a brick?
False
Live end
Two terminals of high-voltage electric circuit are brought close together and creating a sutained spark across the space between the terminals
Average annual freezing cycle days - and average annual winter rainfall of the location

10. If you put less lime in Morar this decreases
Strength of it - and weakens the strength of the wall.
Live ends
Cross bearing Walls plane
Gas or arc

11. In an English-bonded Wall
FBX
Drainage Walls
Comressive Strength = load at failure / area = ksi or psi
The courses alternate between headers ans stretchers

12. Blast Furnace is the process by which ______
Each course consists of Strechers
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
Iron ore and coke are mixed together in a Furnace
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)

13. G120 is for ____ corrosive enviroment
240 in =20ft
Elevated Slabs and arches - its formwork for arches
Highly Crosive - Extreme
0.0025

14. The most efficient weep hole in a brick veneer consists of a...
Deck that spans between two opposite walls - and the gravity load on the deck is carried in one direction across the two opposite walls.
Water and resistant to puncture - tear - and abrasion
Open Headed joint
Porland cement - lime - and sand

15. Who Invented the Basic Oxygen Furnace?
By Splitting I sections in half
Leveling Nut
Henry Bessemer in 1855
52-72

16. The Dark things in the Corner are ____
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.
Grade 50 steel
Columns
A special electric wrench is used that induces a predetermined torque bolt

17. What is the first thing a contractor does at a construction site?
excavation
I Section
Hoizontal bridging members at the bottom of the joists - and horizontal briging members at the top of the joists
Continuous strip footings - isolated pad footings - drilled pier footings.

18. Precast is where____
Within the plane of the veneer
The concrete is casted in controled enviroments and then transported to the contruction job.
2in pg 645
Construction Joint

19. What is a control joint used for?
Horizontal reinforcement
Asymmetry
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.
Where lap splicing of reinforcing bars will produce excessive congestion

20. A snape Tie consits of...
A plastic cone and a loop at each end.
Hollow structural section
Elevated Slabs
Type S

21. In a steel fram building - the secondary framing member for a roof or floor generally consist of ____ and ____
Within the plane of the veneer
Stiff
Some veneer walls
W-shaped beams - Steel joints

22. The Two bottom Left ones are called _____
The contained molds in which the concrete is cast
Plortland cement-based mix
Bolting the member and rightening them with a spud wrench using full force
Tube

23. The Three Levels of Hot-dip Galvanizing are...
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.
G30 - G60 - G120
W-shaped beams - Steel joints
3/5/8x2/1/4x7/5/8

24. The most water tight joint is ____
5000 psi
Two terminals of high-voltage electric circuit are brought close together and creating a sutained spark across the space between the terminals
Concave
2in

25. Stirrups are generally made of...
Spraying the mix over a mold
5000 psi
Greater than the cross-sectional area of the column
No. 3 or No. 4 bars

26. S-Shape is also called ____
American Standard Shape
The Framework
Elevated Slabs
Tension

27. Horizontal Mortar joints are also called ______
Tube
Bed Joints
True
Fibrous

28. Most common used Veneer wall is...
5000 psi
Chairs
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)
Stress at the point of failure

29. Drainage wall must have sufficient built-in redundancy to remain infiltration free for the entire life of the building that includes.
False
Exterior cladding - Air space - Flashing - Water resistant backup - and weep holes.
Copper and stainless steel
Open Headed joint

30. The Tendons used for prestressing a PT concrete slab on ground gernally consist of...
A single 1/2 - 7 wire strand
Column Footing
Device that consists of a mesh made of polymeric strands witch trap the droppings and suspend them permanently above the weep hole
Elevated Slabs and arches - its formwork for arches

31. Flashing must be accompanied by _____
Weep holes
Construction Joint
16'
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

32. Frame Structure is defined by ________
Flexible - durable - resistance to UV radiation.
Elevated Slabs
Extruded Bricks
As a structure that is made entirely of linear elements - columns and beams.

33. Flashing material must be impervious to...
Cylinder measuring 6 inches in diameter x 12 in high
Water and resistant to puncture - tear - and abrasion
Square - rectangular or round
18'

34. The chairs used for supporting reinforcing steel bars are generally
Zero (0)
Plastic - and Steel chairs with plastic-coated feet
Joists
stress=force/area

35. the most commonly used strength of concrete for the slab-on ground in concrete tilt- up wall buildings is...
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.
Concrete masonry Units
Spraying the mix over a mold
4000 psi

36. Because the Bond Beam is grouted it provides ______
A conventional wood light frame building
AISC Type II Connection
A suitable base on which the roof or floor trusses and joist can be supported ans anchored
2in

37. Is a nonmovment joint in a large concrete slab - and is used when the concrete cannot be placed in one continuous operation.
Construction Joint
Cold-formed and light structural steel members - in zinc coating
The industry's standard for masonry bearing wall structures.
Steel Grade

38. In a Multisotry steel frame building - the columns are generally spiced every ____ floors
2
EAF - BOF - OHF
Vertical
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)

39. Plastic tubes work ____ than wicks
Better
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs
Elevated Slabs
Depth of the joist in inches

40. The 'perfect' amount of carbon is from .01 to 1.7% - this metal is called ______
Gravel
Steel
FBX
Type N

41. Per ASTM standars - facing bricks are classiffied as Types FBS - FBX. amd FBA. Which of these types has the most stringent requirements for dimensional tolerance - chippage - and warpage?
Approximately equal to the combined cost of concrete and steel
Percast at the construction site
Acrylic polymer-based mix
FBX

42. Plain-Masonry walls are _______
Hollow structural section
shear force=force/area
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.
24in

43. W-Shape is also called _____
Carbon steel
Hot Rolling
Wide-Flange section
True

44. Concrete is a(an) ____________ material
Elastic
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature
Strip Footing
EAF - BOF - OHF

45. A doubly rienforced beam is one in which
Metals that contain Iron
8 and 30 in
Reinfocing bars are provided at the top and bottom of the beams
E = Change in length / original length = d / L

46. A typical anchor used with brick veneer and CMU backup wall assembly consist of...
Alkali resistant
Two piece anchor - or which one is embedded in CMU backup and the other is embedded in the Veneers mortar joint
The ground-floor slab of the building is too small to accommodate the precasting of all the walls
Heavier members and spans from column to column

47. The dead load of brick vaneer may be borne by the wall foundation without any support at intermediate floors up to a maximum height of _____ above ground
30ft
Henry Bessemer in 1855
0.0025
7/8in

48. Stress Formula
Strip Footing
Spraying the mix over a mold
F = Force/Area = P (Force) /A (Area)
0.0025

49. Water-resistant exterior walls may be divided into three types What is one of these?
AISC Type III Connection
Drainage Walls
Footing
K-series - LH series - DHL series

50. _______ is the Most important Ferrous Metal
Tension
Steel
Glass fiber-reinforced concrete
Gravity load support to the veneer