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1. The purpose of flashing is to...
Live end
annealed glass
Collect and channel any water that gets into the air space back to the exterior
2

2. In an English-bonded Wall
True
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall
Pre-cast concrete hollow-core slabs
The courses alternate between headers ans stretchers

3. A shelf angle in a brick veneer assembly must provide
Reservoir
Mild
Prevent the buckling of vertical reinforcement in columns
Gravity load support to the veneer

4. Horizontal Bridging Members are ?
Stabilizing members that space across the joists
5000 psi
E = Change in length / original length = d / L
Water that may reach the backup by traveling over metal anchors or unintentional obstructions in the air space

5. Suction that pulls wind driven rain into the airspace of a drainage wall takes place on the __________ of the wall
True
Live ends
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.
windward face

6. What is the bottom piece called?
S50X30
Footing
FBX
24in

7. The height and depth of ending Bearing is ___ for all K-series joists
The exterior cladding in a pressure equalized wall
field bolting of steel member
2 1/2 in
Steel embeds in wall and slab welded together with steel plates

8. What is the 2 arrow?
Base Plate
Tension
every floor
16 in

9. Built-up sections are made by _____
Concrete masonry Units
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together
At each floor level and roof level
Angle section (L)

10. Regarless of the type of footing - the bottom of panel is typically about ____ above top of the footing?
Some interior concrete slabs-on-ground
2in
2 1/2 hours of the initial preparations of mortar
5000 psi

11. The height and depth of ending Bearing is ___ for all K-series joists
2 1/2 in
Rain-screen wall
MOre Crrosive Enviroment - Hot
A special electric wrench is used that induces a predetermined torque bolt

12. The use of ONe-way decks yields the following two types of bearing wall planes name one?
Cross bearing Walls plane
Water and resistant to puncture - tear - and abrasion
Asymmetry
144^2 - 18ft.

13. What is Core Holes?
Square - rectangular or round
Tube
10-13 feet.
Extruded bricks that have through-through hols.

14. The face of the PC wall panels should not be less than ____ thick
7/8in
1in
By Splitting I sections in half
Hot Rolling

15. _______ is the Most important Ferrous Metal
Steel
False
The concrete is cast at the site
General contractor

16. Who designed the kaunthaus bregenz?
Peter Zumther
By functioning as a water reservior
MOre Crrosive Enviroment - Hot
Leveling Nut

17. An ideal pressure-equailzed drainage wall is also referred to as
Either tension or compression
Rain-screen wall
W - S - HP - M
Perpendicular to the main axis of the building.

18. A 10 in deep joist can be used for a maximum span of _____
Two piece wire anchors
240 in =20ft
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes
Flexural and Shear.

19. Shear stress formula
Water that may reach the backup by traveling over metal anchors or unintentional obstructions in the air space
Force / Area
4 to 6 ft
Ties are generally not provided in a concrete wall

20. An ideal pressure-equailzed drainage wall is also referred to as
Rain-screen wall
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors
Soon as possible to allow rapid turnover and reuse of the framework
Mock-up

21. The Vertical Lines that are not connected to Beams are called ____
Joists
52-72
2 1/2 hours of the initial preparations of mortar
Dead End

22. A sufficient number of weep holes must be provided for the drainage of the air space - gernerally - a weep hole spacing of ____ is used with open head joints
24in
Tougher pg 617
Site cast concrete slabs
M -S -N -O

23. Standard CMU size
Large - prefabricated - tunnel forms that allow walls and slabs to be cast simultaneously
32 in on center and not more than 18 in vertically
7-5/8x7-5/8x15-5/8
field bolting of steel member

24. The use of ONe-way decks yields the following two types of bearing wall planes name one?
The concrete is casted in controled enviroments and then transported to the contruction job.
Steel embeds in wall and slab welded together with steel plates
Asymmetry
Longitudinal bearing Wall Plan.

25. For a brick veneer that bears on the foundation and continuses to the top of the building without any intermediate support - the maximum veneer height is limited to...
a nonmovement joint in a large concrete slab. It is used when concrete cannot be placed in on continuous operation.
Elevated Slabs and arches - its formwork for arches
Weak in shear
30 ft

26. The Top Left hand Corner is a ____ Beam
Extruded Bricks
Angle section (L)
32 in on center and not more than 18 in vertically
where soil is not strong.

27. Steel floor decks are either form decks or ___________decks.
Fibrous
Composite
Solid unit
1/2 to 3/4 thick

28. The required color of a stucco surface is...
Walls with overhangs
Interegral to the mix of the finish coat pg 702
Each floor level
W - S - HP - M

29. Retempering of mortar - if needed - should be generally done within
Vertical reinforcing bars
Angle section (L)
2 to 4 ft
2 1/2 hours of the initial preparations of mortar

30. S-Shape is also called ____
25 ft and not more than 10 ft from the walls corner
3in
American Standard Shape
Brick ledge

31. Cold formings is when __
That it is welded
False
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature
Favorably

32. What are some Disadvantages to using Steel and Joists and Joist Girders?
Greater Floor to Floor height - COncentrated Loads - Complex layout floor and roof frame - and Fire protection
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks
Concave
Base Plate

33. The Very middle one is called _____
Parallel - wider
Bearing connection
I Section
Cylinder measuring 6 inches in diameter x 12 in high

34. Precast is where____
Basic Oxygen Furnace
30 ft
Reinfocing bars are provided at the top and bottom of the beams
The concrete is casted in controled enviroments and then transported to the contruction job.

35. The Dark things in the Corner are ____
Columns
Iron ore and coke are mixed together in a Furnace
Asymmetry
Cotton ropes - that absorb water from the airspace by capillary action and drain it to the outside.

36. During the erection of concrete tilt up walls - a gap is left between the bottom of a wall panel the top of the footing. The gap is approximately
Live end
2in
4000 psi
Steel Grade

37. ____________________ is gerneally preferred over filed welding?
Carbon steel
A325
field bolting of steel member
Barrier walls

38. Bear directly on a compacted ground with the organic top soil removed.
To increase the shear strength of beam above that provided by concrete
A horizontal butt join in cladding
Ground-Supported slabs area____
Some interior concrete slabs-on-ground

39. Plain-Masonry walls are _______
Heavier members and spans from column to column
Tube
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.
The concrete is casted in controled enviroments and then transported to the contruction job.

40. A connection between a floor or roof and a wall must be adequate to sustain the 3 forces What is one of these forces?
Exposed aggregate finish by water washing - Abrasive blasting - acid etching
Zinc
In plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck
The connections between the walls and the floor or roof decks

41. A 1 1/2 depression is commonly created in foundation to receive the first course of the veneer - What is the name of the ledge?
Dead End
Leveling Nut
Brick ledge
Sloped on both sides

42. This CMU type resists water infiltration - one ways
Steel pipes
Shelf angles
Providing an impervious barrier to water
Much lower

43. Galvanizing is...
Cold-formed and light structural steel members - in zinc coating
Elevated Slabs
Less than it's ultimate stress
tempered glass

44. What is a control joint used for?
4000 psi
Gravity load support to the veneer
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.
Immediately about a flashing

45. Bond beams are _____
Veneer wall
That the thickness of exterior masonry walls progressively increase toward the lower floors.
3000 psi
Individual elements - tha do not have continuity to resist diaphragm tension - and are anchored to to masonry beams.

46. Drainage wall must have sufficient built-in redundancy to remain infiltration free for the entire life of the building that includes.
2in pg 645
Exterior cladding - Air space - Flashing - Water resistant backup - and weep holes.
Molded bricks
Wider space in an otherwize narrow joint

47. IRA is a measure of the Tensile Stregth of a brick?
Actual strength / required strength
False
cohesive
Acrylic polymer-based mix

48. Which type of EIF is most used?
Stress / strain = E
Grouted Space
PB pg 703
The ground-floor slab of the building is too small to accommodate the precasting of all the walls

49. Metal anchors are needed to transfer lateral loads to the backup wall in...
Adding water to the mortar
Thermal Mass
2 1/2 hours of the initial preparations of mortar
Some veneer walls

50. The minimum width of air space generally used between brick veneer and wood stud backup wall is...
Porland cement - lime - and sand
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature
To increase the shear strength of beam above that provided by concrete
1in