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1. A doubly rienforced beam is one in which
Low rise building 1 to 4 stories
Gauge number
Reinfocing bars are provided at the top and bottom of the beams
24

2. The Veneer is generally supported at each floor using steel _______
Thermal Mass
Shelf angles
1in
Steel pipes

3. The Middle-THird Rule indicated that ______
4000 psi
2in
The concrete is cast at the site
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.

4. In high-rised residential buildings with site cast reinforced concrete bearing walls - the floors and the roofs are generally constructed of...
Brown coat
Site cast concrete slabs
Stress at the point of failure
Immediately above the flashing

5. Factor for safety formula
Plortland cement-based mix
K-series - LH series - DHL series
2 to 4 ft
Failure stress / allowable stress

6. The Top right hand Beam is called a
Noncohesive Soils
T section
Pre-tensioned concrete
cohesive

7. In a Multisotry steel frame building - the columns are generally spiced every ____ floors
2
2 1/2 hours of the initial preparations of mortar
Provide unifrom drying and firing of bricks
The concrete is cast at the site

8. The required color of a stucco surface is...
Interegral to the mix of the finish coat pg 702
Supported by - and anchored to - the buildings structure
Prevent the buckling of vertical reinforcement in columns
Out of Plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck

9. What is the yield stress of A36 steel?
W - S - HP - M
36 ksi
5000 psi
Reinfocing bars are provided at the top and bottom of the beams

10. A snug-Tight Condiction is also called...
Favorably
Bearing connection
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors
Each course consists of Strechers

11. A typical anchor used with brick veneer and CMU backup wall assembly consist of...
Extruded bricks that have through-through hols.
Two piece anchor - or which one is embedded in CMU backup and the other is embedded in the Veneers mortar joint
Isolated pad footing
Extruded bricks that have through-through hols.

12. The most commonly used steel for framming menbers is_______
Much lower
W-Shaped Columns and Beams
Iron ore melts and then is cooled to a solid state by casting it on a sand bed - the shape of the casting resembles a little of new born pigs.
Beams

13. IRA is a measure of the Tensile Stregth of a brick?
False
A36
EAF - OHF - BOF
Live end

14. CMU is _____
Cinder Block
F = Force/Area = P (Force) /A (Area)
3/5/8x2/1/4x7/5/8
As a structure that is made entirely of linear elements - columns and beams.

15. What is the 2 arrow?
Base Plate
Sloped - thinner
Brown coat
Immediately above

16. Most Structural Steel sections are produced using _______
At each floor level and roof level
Individual elements - tha do not have continuity to resist diaphragm tension - and are anchored to to masonry beams.
Hot Rolling
Concrete hollow-core slabs - metal deck - or wood deck.

17. The face of the PC wall panels should not be less than ____ thick
1in
Stabilizing members that space across the joists
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes
A felexible connection that allows the ends of the beam to rotate under the load.

18. In a tilt up wall constuction system - the walls are...
Percast at the construction site
Steel Grade
Ties are generally not provided in a concrete wall
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.

19. What does SJI stand for?
Steel Joist Institute
Gravity load support to the veneer
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes
Unequal distribution of air pressure on the exterior of the wall and in the airspace between the cladding an d the backup wall.

20. tilt-up concrete walls are connected to the slab-on ground with
5000 psi
3000 psi
A continuous concrete closure strip in the slab-on-ground.
Weak in shear

21. Pretensioned concrete & tensioned concrete have ______ stress
Zero (0)
Footing
same
Hoizontal bridging members at the bottom of the joists - and horizontal briging members at the top of the joists

22. Scaffold-types shores are usally made from
Steel pipes
25 ft in the field of the wall and 10 ft from a wall's corner.
Site cast concrete slabs
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.

23. the stirrups in a reinforced concrete beam are used to...
Beams and Columns
Increase the strength of beam in shear
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.
Compressive strength and Flexural tensile bond strength

24. Plain-Masonry walls are _______
1kip=1000psi
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.
Wide-Flange section
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.

25. Effloresecence
Tilt-up Concrete Association
False
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall
25 ft and not more than 10 ft from the walls corner

26. Yeild strength of steel is also referred to as the ______
windward face
False
Steel Grade
That it is welded

27. The greater the _____ the great the torsion created - which increases the cost of the structure.
Asymmetry
laminated glass - so that glass shards don't rain down death.
G30 - G60 - G120
Flat-plate floor - and one-way joist floor

28. the foundations for concrete tilt-up walls constits of...
Continuous strip footings - isolated pad footings - drilled pier footings.
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs
EAF - OHF - BOF
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.

29. Joists Girders has ______ than a Joist
Heavier members and spans from column to column
stablize joists
More easily constructable.
Perpendicular to the main axis of the building.

30. Bricks and Blocks are called ____
A horizontal butt join in cladding
Plastic - and Steel chairs with plastic-coated feet
Compressive strength
Concrete masonry Units

31. the stirrups in a reinforced concrete beam are used to...
structural frame
Increase the strength of beam in shear
Fire-resitive - mold-free - sound-insulating - relatively inexpensive and durable.
Expanded metal lath

32. Flashing must be accompanied by _____
1in
Steel pipes
2 1/2 in
Weep holes

33. Stressing-end assembly is called a ____
Live end
2 1/2 hours of the initial preparations of mortar
Immediately about a flashing
0.0025

34. PC curtain wall panels are removed from the form as____
Elevated Slabs
25 ft and not more than 10 ft from the walls corner
One piece anchors
Soon as possible to allow rapid turnover and reuse of the framework

35. A load-bearing wall structure works best when the floor plan of the building has
18 to 48 in
I Section
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
40 ft

36. A snape Tie consits of...
Sloped on both sides
Its strenth-to-weight ration is high - which reduces the weight of forms and shores.
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.
A plastic cone and a loop at each end.

37. Conventional stucco is also called...
Portland cement stucco
Stretcher Face
Fall within the range of loads spans that are common in buildings
CMU backed brick veneer

38. Deep foundations use what to ensure that the building does not move
W-Shaped Columns and Beams
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)
Pile
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes

39. In relation to it's compressive strength - the tensile strength of concrete is...
Much lower
Tension
7-5/8x7-5/8x15-5/8
Expanded metal lath

40. The simplest cellular-type plan is a_______
Zero (0)
As a structure that is made entirely of linear elements - columns and beams.
Single-story - rectangular (box type)
To ensure stability against overturning by wind loads

41. In a Multisotry steel frame building - the columns are generally spiced every ____ floors
A single 1/2 - 7 wire strand
Portland cement stucco
2
Glass fiber-reinforced concrete

42. Bricks are anchored to the frame on every floor or every other floor?
Water Proofing
Steel pipes
every floor
Provide unifrom drying and firing of bricks

43. The use of ONe-way decks yields the following two types of bearing wall planes name one?
Gravel
Longitudinal bearing Wall Plan.
Shores
Live end

44. W section I beam with a nominal depth of 16' and a weight of 50 lbs for 2 foot
Within the plane of the veneer
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks
Interegral to the mix of the finish coat pg 702
W16X25

45. Flashing needs to have these qualities
Flexible - durable - resistance to UV radiation.
Basic Oxygen Furnace
Construction Joint
Prevent the buckling of longitudinal column bars

46. the allowable stress in a material is generally

47. Tilt-up walls are connected to the slab on ground by one of the following two method - name one
A continuous closure strip
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors
Snap Tie
G30 - G60 - G120

48. In specifying the dimensions of a masonry unit - which dimension is states last?
Length - L - of unit
Large - prefabricated - tunnel forms that allow walls and slabs to be cast simultaneously
Gas or arc
2 1/2 in

49. Inside of Pressed concret the prestressing cables are called____
Strands
A325
Discontinuity of walls at foundations and requires a heavy transfer structure.
1. decking 2. membrane 3. insulation 4. flashing

50. High-strength bolts are made from
High-treated carbon steel
The ground-floor slab of the building is too small to accommodate the precasting of all the walls
Elastic-plastic
Connections are tightened to a high tensil stress so that shear resistance is provided though fiction between the connect surfaces