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1. Who designed the kaunthaus bregenz?
Allow water washing of concrete after stripping the forms
Steel embeds in wall and slab welded together with steel plates
1kip=1000psi
Peter Zumther

2. Stirrups are generally made of...
Much lower
No. 3 or No. 4 bars
Construction Joint
Exterior cladding and a inner backup wall and a intervening air space between the cladding and the backup

3. The I-section can be classified into four shapes. What are they?
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs
I Section
Providing a anomalous slope in the surface.
W - S - HP - M

4. The stress-strain diagram of ______ steel is nearly a straight line up to the yield point
True
Mild
=change in length/original length
Capillary break

5. The cost of a tilt up wall system compares _____ with that of a masonry bearing wall system
3/8 greater than the multiples of the masonry unit module.
Water that may reach the backup by traveling over metal anchors or unintentional obstructions in the air space
Snap Tie
Favorably

6. Name one of the types of foundations of tilt-up walls
Steel pipes
20 ft
Drilled pier footing
perpendicular

7. a construction join in a concrete slab on ground is required if the concrete in the slab connot be placed in one continuous operation
Joists
True
Vertical
Columns

8. in terms of water infiltration - the exterior walls in historical buildings functioned as
The Vertical lumber on this image of formwork is called ______
That it is welded
Connected members have been bolted together using spud wretch with the full force of a person
Barrier walls

9. Materials used for Formwork are___
Open-Hearth furnace
Wood and Plywood - Steel - Aluminum - Glass Fiber
4000 psi
Bed Joints

10. Most of the cost comes from _____
Sloped - thinner
Water and resistant to puncture - tear - and abrasion
The Framework
Single-story - rectangular (box type)

11. Is that the walls that are required for load-bearing purposes may also function as shear walls in addition to enclosing and dividing spaces.
Masonry Bearing Wall Structure
Single-story - rectangular (box type)
PB pg 703
Supported by - and anchored to - the buildings structure

12. Bricks that have core holes are ____
Parallel - wider
Elevated Slabs and arches - its formwork for arches
Extruded Bricks
Each course Consists of alternate headers and stretchers

13. Water-resistant exterior walls may be divided into three types What is one of these?
Construction Joint
Large - prefabricated - tunnel forms that allow walls and slabs to be cast simultaneously
Walls with overhangs
8 and 30 in

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

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15. the coping on a masonry fence wall is generally...
M -S -N -O
Stretcher Face
Iron ore and coke are mixed together in a Furnace
Sloped on both sides

16. TCA recommends a minimum slab thickness of _____ regarless of the loads
16'
laminated glass - so that glass shards don't rain down death.
5 in
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall

17. What is the 2 arrow?
True
A small opening at the bottom of cladding
Base Plate
structural frame

18. The height and depth of ending Bearing is ___ for all K-series joists
Stretcher Face
2 1/2 in
1in
Drilled pier footing

19. Standard CMU size
Gravel
Flexible - durable - resistance to UV radiation.
7-5/8x7-5/8x15-5/8
8 and 30 in

20. One-way deck is 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.
where soil is not strong.
excavation
True

21. The two Strength Properties of Mortar are ______
Dead End
Increases the strength of a wall against bending - increases the sliding resistance of the wall to in-plane lateral loads - reducing horizontal displacement between floors - helps to resist the tension caused by overturning of the Wall.
Compressive strength and Flexural tensile bond strength
excavation

22. Pocket formers in a PT concrete slab-on ground are used at...
A ductile material
The industry's standard for masonry bearing wall structures.
Live ends
240 in =20ft

23. Generally - a Bond Beam is only _____ deep
Porland cement - lime - and sand
Water Proofing
A ductile material
8

24. A Joist has _____ than a Joist Girder
Lighter member that spans between the girders
Beams
2in
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.

25. The thickness of a roof or floor deck is generally specified in terms of...
Deck that the load is transferred to all four walls - and are generally of site-cast concrete.
Compressive strength
Gauge number
The Horizontal members of this image for formwork is called ______

26. The minimum width of air space generally used between brick veneer and wood stud backup wall is...
That it is welded
1in
Capillary break
True

27. The most commonly used steel for framming menbers is_______
3 in
False
Shelf angle anchored to the structural frame of the building
W-Shaped Columns and Beams

28. IN the steel joist designation 24LH10 the number 24 gives the _____
Depth of the joist in inches
Column Footing
144^2 - 18ft.
Noncohesive Soils

29. The Bottom Right hand Picture is a ______
Where the concrete absorbs the heat from the day and slowly releases it during the night
Pipe Section
Column Footing
A 100% solid unit

30. Shelf angles are...
Supported by - and anchored to - the buildings structure
18'
The exterior cladding in a pressure equalized wall
Either tension or compression

31. In a steel fram building - the secondary framing member for a roof or floor generally consist of ____ and ____
W-shaped beams - Steel joints
Structural concrete fill
The deflection of studs to withstand lateral loads
Weep holes

32. S section I beam with a nominal depth of 50' and a weight of 60 lbs per 3 feet
Interegral to the mix of the finish coat pg 702
Lug
Expanded metal lath
S50X30

33. __________ are vertical supports used in the forming of concrete.
Greater than the cross-sectional area of the column
At foundation level - over a lintel angle - over a shelf angle - under a window sill.
Base Plate
Shores

34. A vapor retarder is required under
MOre Crrosive Enviroment - Hot
Molded bricks
Stabilizing members that space across the joists
Some interior concrete slabs-on-ground

35. in an ideal pressure-equalized drainage wall
Drainage Walls
Steel Joist Institute
Low rise building 1 to 4 stories
The cladding resists all the wind load

36. BOF full name is _______
Basic Oxygen Furnace
Greater than the cross-sectional area of the column
2
4000 psi

37. A Tunnel form consists of...
Less than it's ultimate stress
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.
Pre-cast concrete hollow-core slabs
Pipe Section

38. A Column Spice is approximately ___ ft above the lower floor so that the erector can use the floor as a platform to make the connection.
4
10-13 feet.
Steel Grade
At each floor level and roof level

39. the foundations for concrete tilt-up walls constits of...
Basic Oxygen Furnace
High-treated carbon steel
20 ft
Continuous strip footings - isolated pad footings - drilled pier footings.

40. A material that is weak in tension is...
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)
Strength of it - and weakens the strength of the wall.
Weak in shear
Gravity - wind and surface tension

41. Who Invented the Basic Oxygen Furnace?
Comressive Strength = load at failure / area = ksi or psi
Acrylic polymer-based mix
Leveling Nut
Henry Bessemer in 1855

42. Reinforcement increases a masonry's walls ________ and _______ strength
Flexural and Shear.
Some interior concrete slabs-on-ground
Surface tension
240 in =20ft

43. Form liners are used to...
3/8
Some veneer walls
Allow water washing of concrete after stripping the forms
False

44. PCI recommends a minimum horizontal clearance of ___ of precast panels from the buildings structural frame
Type S
2in
Simple Connection
Is the Specified dimension plus one mortar joint thickness

45. The Term prestressed concrete refers to both pretensioned and posttensioned concret
Wide-Flange section
Live end
True
A suitable base on which the roof or floor trusses and joist can be supported ans anchored

46. Was is directly underneith the concrete Slab
Water Proofing
Perpendicular to the main axis of the building.
Upward deflection of a beam to counter downward deflection by a dead load
At each floor level and roof level

47. The test specimens used for determining the compressive strength of concrete in the united states is a...
they extend the entire thickness of the slab - they isolate the slab from the building's structural componants.
Percast at the construction site
Cylinder measuring 6 inches in diameter x 12 in high
Weak in shear

48. The anchors used to anchor the brick veneer to the backup wall are generally two-piece achors to allow differential movement between the veneer and the backup
connection beam flanges
Reduced cracking in concret - and reduction in the dimensions of stuctural members
Noncombustible and is similar to fiberglass - manufacture of insulation.
Within the plane of the veneer

49. The thicker the wall the larger the _______ needs to be
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together
A felexible connection that allows the ends of the beam to rotate under the load.
Reservoir
Prevent the buckling of longitudinal column bars

50. The primary purpose of steel reinforments is to increase the tensile strenth of concrete elements - however - steel reinforcments is also used to increase the shear strength and compressive strenght of concrete elements
Lintel angle
True
Better
Composite