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1. Reshoring Concrete structures is necessary where excessive deflection of Floor slabs or foundation settlement is anticipate on remval of shores
Getting Iron and Meling it - Then when the Ore is soft - Silica is beat out with a hammer
Continuous strip footings - isolated pad footings - drilled pier footings.
False
AISC Type II Connection

2. The keyway between precast-concrete hollow core slabs runs ____________ to the bearing walls
perpendicular
Cold-formed and light structural steel members - in zinc coating
Pieces sticking out away from the columes
A plastic cone and a loop at each end.

3. The Two bottom Left ones are called _____
Tube
The concrete is cast at the site
4000 psi
Continuous strip footings - isolated pad footings - drilled pier footings.

4. A bond Beam in a Masonry bearing wall building is required for structural reasons
Immediately above the flashing
MOre Crrosive Enviroment - Hot
After World War 2
At each floor level and roof level

5. Water-resistant exterior walls may be divided into three types What is one of these?
Drainage Walls
Compressive strength
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks

6. Rest on and are part of the structural frame of the building - they are used for 2nd and higher floors.
Angle section (L)
Columns
Elevated Slabs
Gravity - wind and surface tension

7. S-Shapes are mostly used for_____
2in
Site cast concrete slabs
Cranes and rails
A small opening at the bottom of cladding

8. The combination of bond Beams and Vertically reinforced CMU cells forms _______
Simple Connection
A reinforced-masonry frame
Noncombustible and is similar to fiberglass - manufacture of insulation.
Is embedded in the walls

9. TCA recommends a minimum slab thickness of _____ regarless of the loads
Collect and channel any water that gets into the air space back to the exterior
5 in
EAF - OHF - BOF
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.

10. The most common used size of brick is...
At each floor level and roof level
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together
Carbon steel
3/5/8x2/1/4x7/5/8

11. ____________________ is gerneally preferred over filed welding?
field bolting of steel member
Grouted Space
1. decking 2. membrane 3. insulation 4. flashing
Iron ore and coke are mixed together in a Furnace

12. W-Shape is also called _____
Steel Grade
Steel
Wide-Flange section
Gravity load support to the veneer

13. Scaffold-types shores are usally made from
Steel pipes
Noncombustible and is similar to fiberglass - manufacture of insulation.
Steel
Continuious waterproof membrane which provides a continuous barrior that originates at the backup wall and penetrates through air space and cladding

14. BOF full name is _______
Elastic
Construction Joint
Basic Oxygen Furnace
Wood and Plywood - Steel - Aluminum - Glass Fiber

15. Bond beams are _____
windward face
Surface tension
Individual elements - tha do not have continuity to resist diaphragm tension - and are anchored to to masonry beams.
The ground-floor slab of the building is too small to accommodate the precasting of all the walls

16. 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
excavation
Expanded metal lath
Plastic - and Steel chairs with plastic-coated feet

17. Ferrous Metals are...
Lighter Weight - Easier Erection
240 in =20ft
Metals that contain Iron
Pile

18. The Long part extending from the Foundation into the bed rock - as shown in this picture is called _____
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall
Deck that the load is transferred to all four walls - and are generally of site-cast concrete.
Residential
Pile

19. What is the 2 arrow?
W-shaped beams - Steel joints
A continuous closure strip
Base Plate
Sloped toward the interior roof

20. The arrows next to the Column and the base plate are indications of what?
Elevated Slabs and arches - its formwork for arches
Water Proofing
Approximately equal to the combined cost of concrete and steel
That it is welded

21. In most masonry Beraing wall structures - the floors consist of precast_____
Column Footing
Metals that do not contain Metals
144^2 - 18ft.
Concrete hollow-core slabs - metal deck - or wood deck.

22. The most important reason for providing tires in concrete conlumn is too
Extruded bricks that have through-through hols.
Prevent the buckling of longitudinal column bars
Two terminals of high-voltage electric circuit are brought close together and creating a sutained spark across the space between the terminals
Metals that do not contain Metals

23. What is the bottom piece called?
Solid unit
50
Support Pylons
Footing

24. In a Flemish-bonded wall
Each course Consists of alternate headers and stretchers
annealed glass
True
16 in

25. Bricks are anchored to the frame on every floor or every other floor?
every floor
Some interior concrete slabs-on-ground
Two piece anchor - or which one is embedded in CMU backup and the other is embedded in the Veneers mortar joint
Where lap splicing of reinforcing bars will produce excessive congestion

26. What are the types of concrete slabs and their function?
Concrete hollow-core slabs - metal deck - or wood deck.
ground supported slabs (a.k.a. slabs-on-ground or slabs-on-grade) bear directly on a compacted ground with organic top soil removed. 2. elevated slabs rest on and are part of the structural frame of the building. Therefore they are also referred to a
T section
stress=force/area

27. The Vertical Lines that are not connected to Beams are called ____
Joists
Each floor level
Prevent the buckling of longitudinal column bars
2in

28. Wicks or Tubes need a spacing of ____ to go with open-head joints
16 in
Prevent the buckling of longitudinal column bars
Supported by - and anchored to - the buildings structure
Gravel

29. This Grade of Steel is The most popular in use in buildings
A992
2in
3 in
Columns

30. A masonry unit has 20% voids is referred to as a...
0.0025
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature
AISC Type I Connection
Solid unit

31. A steel with a yeild strenth of 50 ksi is also called _____
Encase steel sections in concrete - OR use a Spray-applied fire protection and gypsum board facing
4000 psi
Tension
Grade 50 steel

32. Who Invented the Basic Oxygen Furnace?
Flexible - durable - resistance to UV radiation.
A reinforced-masonry frame
Where the concrete absorbs the heat from the day and slowly releases it during the night
Henry Bessemer in 1855

33. Slagwool is _____
Brick ledge
Noncombustible and is similar to fiberglass - manufacture of insulation.
Compression
4000 psi

34. Bear directly on a compacted ground with the organic top soil removed.
Is embedded in the walls
Ground-Supported slabs area____
Type N
The exterior cladding in a pressure equalized wall

35. Roof deck is generally topped with _____
Rigid Insulation and Roof cover
A sufficient number and adequate lengths of walls must be provided in both principal directions of a building
Zinc
Weak in shear

36. Tilt-up walls are connected to the slab on ground by one of the following two method - name one
Composite
Extruded Bricks
3000 psi
A continuous closure strip

37. The use of ONe-way decks yields the following two types of bearing wall planes name one?
Longitudinal bearing Wall Plan.
Rigid Insulation and Roof cover
Heavier members and spans from column to column
The courses alternate between headers ans stretchers

38. Frame Structure is defined by ________
As a structure that is made entirely of linear elements - columns and beams.
Concrete hollow-core slabs - metal deck - or wood deck.
Cross bearing Walls plane
Percast at the construction site

39. The Slag is what?
Molten Limestone that floats over molten Iron
3000 PSI
Mid- to-high rise masonry bearing wall residential buildings
Either tension or compression

40. Galvanizing is...
Cold-formed and light structural steel members - in zinc coating
That it is welded
Shelf angle anchored to the structural frame of the building
4000 psi

41. The The Fourth Arrow is Pointing at
windward face
Surface tension
Column Footing
In plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck

42. 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 ____
2 in
Flying forms
Steel Grade
Tougher pg 617

43. Vertical Mortar joints are also called _____
Sloped - thinner
they extend the entire thickness of the slab - they isolate the slab from the building's structural componants.
Head Joints
A plastic cone and a loop at each end.

44. What are some Disadvantages to using Steel and Joists and Joist Girders?
Scaffolding
Approximately equal to the combined cost of concrete and steel
Greater Floor to Floor height - COncentrated Loads - Complex layout floor and roof frame - and Fire protection
Horizontal reinforcement

45. Bricks that are highly absorptive may need to be wetted before being laid in a wall
Pieces sticking out away from the columes
True
Reinfocing bars are provided at the top and bottom of the beams
Dead End

46. The keyway between precast-concrete hollow core slabs runs ____________ to the bearing walls
Connected members have been bolted together using spud wretch with the full force of a person
windward face
That it is welded
perpendicular

47. Deep foundations use what to ensure that the building does not move
Bearing connection
Pile
A sufficient number and adequate lengths of walls must be provided in both principal directions of a building
Low-rise buildings generally up to 50 ft

48. Precast-concrete hollow-core slabs are most commonly used in____
Mid- to-high rise masonry bearing wall residential buildings
Adding water to the mortar
Mock-up
Walls with vertical reinforcement

49. The greater the _____ the great the torsion created - which increases the cost of the structure.
Ground-Supported slabs area____
36 ksi
Asymmetry
A plastic cone and a loop at each end.

50. CMU is _____
Two piece anchor - or which one is embedded in CMU backup and the other is embedded in the Veneers mortar joint
Cinder Block
Zero (0)
Roof and Floor