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1. Who Invented the Basic Oxygen Furnace?
Henry Bessemer in 1855
2 1/2 in
Electric Arc Furnace
Noncombustible and is similar to fiberglass - manufacture of insulation.

2. Steel floor decks are either form decks or ___________decks.
Barrier walls
Live ends
Composite
Tension

3. What is the First arrow point at?
2 1/2 hours of the initial preparations of mortar
Control joints in concrete do what?
Fall within the range of loads spans that are common in buildings
Leveling Nut

4. Is a nonmovment joint in a large concrete slab - and is used when the concrete cannot be placed in one continuous operation.
Drilled pier footing
1/2 to 3/4 thick
Molten Limestone that floats over molten Iron
Construction Joint

5. Who designed the kaunthaus bregenz?
Metals that contain Iron
Sloped - thinner
Peter Zumther
Veneer wall

6. Built-up sections are made by _____
Water Proofing
3000 PSI
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together
8 in

7. A bond Beam is provided at ______
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.
Adding water to the mortar
Interegral to the mix of the finish coat pg 702
32 in on center and not more than 18 in vertically

8. Plymer based EIFS are also called...
Soft-coat EIFS
Peter Zumther
connection beam flanges
Weak in shear

9. Shores are used for...
A small opening at the bottom of cladding
Providing a anomalous slope in the surface.
52-72
Elevated Slabs and arches - its formwork for arches

10. The Horizontal Lines in the Middle are called ____
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.
Dead End
A sufficient number and adequate lengths of walls must be provided in both principal directions of a building
Beams

11. ____________________ is gerneally preferred over filed welding?
Type S
field bolting of steel member
52-72
The Vertical lumber on this image of formwork is called ______

12. Weep holes must be provided ______ to the flashing
Open-Hearth furnace
Steel embeds in wall and slab welded together with steel plates
Immediately above
Continuious waterproof membrane which provides a continuous barrior that originates at the backup wall and penetrates through air space and cladding

13. A steel with a yeild strenth of 50 ksi is also called _____
Beams
Air tight
Grade 50 steel
3/8

14. The Top Left hand Corner is a ____ Beam
Lug
Tilt-up Concrete Association
True
Angle section (L)

15. 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
Some veneer walls
Connected members have been bolted together using spud wretch with the full force of a person
Basic Oxygen Furnace
2in

16. Benefits of reinforced masonry
Longitudinal bearing Wall Plan.
windward face
Immediately above the flashing
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.

17. Use of the load bearing masonry wall system became extinct for a while and was revived
After World War 2
Upward deflection of a beam to counter downward deflection by a dead load
52-72
Surface tension

18. 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
Within the plane of the veneer
2in
Mild
False

19. The Three Levels of Hot-dip Galvanizing are...
1kip=1000psi
Continuious waterproof membrane which provides a continuous barrior that originates at the backup wall and penetrates through air space and cladding
Immediately above
G30 - G60 - G120

20. The Two bottom Left ones are called _____
Average annual freezing cycle days - and average annual winter rainfall of the location
Copper and stainless steel
24in
Tube

21. The Top right hand Beam is called a
Tunnel Form
Metals that do not contain Metals
T section
Compressive strength and Flexural tensile bond strength

22. What does TCA stand for?
Tilt-up Concrete Association
Some interior concrete slabs-on-ground
cohesive
Comressive Strength = load at failure / area = ksi or psi

23. What type of noise did Juliard use to see if noise was reflected back?
Pink
Perpendicular to the main axis of the building.
Two piece wire anchors
AISC Type III Connection

24. The primary reason for providing core hols in bricks is to...
20 ft
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.
I Section
Provide unifrom drying and firing of bricks

25. Flashing needs to have these qualities
3/8 greater than the multiples of the masonry unit module.
Flexible - durable - resistance to UV radiation.
A suitable base on which the roof or floor trusses and joist can be supported ans anchored
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

26. A shear connection between a steel beam and a steel column can be made without _________ to the column
=change in length/original length
Compression
connection beam flanges
To increase the shear strength of beam above that provided by concrete

27. How high off the does glass have to remain tempered?

28. How high off the does glass have to remain tempered?

29. Frame Structure is defined by ________
Hot Rolling
As a structure that is made entirely of linear elements - columns and beams.
Open Headed joint
Joists

30. A Soft story is a _______
Discontinuity of walls at foundations and requires a heavy transfer structure.
Wide-Flange section
AISC Type I Connection
Masonry Bearing Wall Structure

31. If you put more lime in Mortar this increases
Parallel - wider
field bolting of steel member
Workablity - water rentivity - and water tightness
Copper and stainless steel

32. What is one of the Empirical rules?
Stress / strain = E
Metals that contain Iron
That the thickness of exterior masonry walls progressively increase toward the lower floors.
connection beam flanges

33. Walers
The Horizontal members of this image for formwork is called ______
Is embedded in the walls
Capillary break
Column Footing

34. Plymer modified EIFS are also called...
Fall within the range of loads spans that are common in buildings
Strip Footing
Hard coat EIFS
Beams

35. G60 is for ____ corrosive enviroment
Gravity - wind and surface tension
0.0025
MOre Crrosive Enviroment - Hot
3/8 greater than the multiples of the masonry unit module.

36. An isolated concrete slab-on-ground requires what types of joints?
Brick ledge
Ground-Supported slabs area____
Control joints - Isolation joints - Construction joints
Compressive strength and Flexural tensile bond strength

37. The most important reason for providing ties in concrete wall is to...
Ties are generally not provided in a concrete wall
Shelf angle anchored to the structural frame of the building
8 in
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.

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

39. This CMU type resists water infiltration - one ways
The Framework
High-treated carbon steel
I Section
Providing an impervious barrier to water

40. The Three Levels of Hot-dip Galvanizing are...
Failure stress / allowable stress
To ensure stability against overturning by wind loads
G30 - G60 - G120
8 in to 30 in

41. A material that is weak in tension is...
Weak in shear
Lighter member that spans between the girders
American Standard Shape
Barrier walls

42. Panelized construction eliminates _____ - increasing on-site workers' safety
Grouted Space
The exterior cladding in a pressure equalized wall
Scaffolding
The cladding resists all the wind load

43. What is the First arrow point at?
5000 psi
Leveling Nut
A small opening at the bottom of cladding
Highly Crosive - Extreme

44. Stirrups are generally made of...
Control joints in concrete do what?
Columns
True
No. 3 or No. 4 bars

45. the most commonly used strength of concrete for tilt-up
Low rise building 1 to 4 stories
4000 psi
Lateral load support to the veneer
Alkali resistant

46. Stripping time is ___
Asymmetry
Site cast concrete slabs
The time between the end of concreting and the removal of the forms
Glass fiber-reinforced concrete

47. Laminated glass can be made with ____________ or annealed glass
tempered glass
Immediately about a flashing
Bolting the member and rightening them with a spud wrench using full force
To ensure stability against overturning by wind loads

48. A connection between a floor or roof and a wall must be adequate to sustain the 3 forces What is one of these forces?
20 ft
Tougher pg 617
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall
Allow water washing of concrete after stripping the forms

49. What does SJI stand for?
Wider space in an otherwize narrow joint
Steel Joist Institute
Fire-resitive - mold-free - sound-insulating - relatively inexpensive and durable.
The concrete is casted in controled enviroments and then transported to the contruction job.

50. The units of modulus of elasticity are _______
Psi - ksi - Pa - and GPa
Exposed aggregate finish by water washing - Abrasive blasting - acid etching
The bolt shank and nut are marked after the joint has been snugged. Then a specific amount of rotation is induced in the nut with repect to the bolt - generally 1/3 to a full turn beyond the snug-tight condition
True