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1. a 20-ft high column shortens by 0.6 in. under a load. What is the resulting strain in the column?
Stretcher Face
Mid- to-high rise masonry bearing wall residential buildings
Metals that contain Iron
0.0025

2. Girder is...
Live ends
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.
Pieces sticking out away from the columes
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together

3. Height adjustablilty in shores made of dimension lumber is provided through___
Lapped members - clamped together with specially made clamps - and screw-based metal assembly
Interegral to the mix of the finish coat pg 702
Brick ledge
Solid unit

4. What is the First arrow point at?
Isolated pad footing
Leveling Nut
A 100% solid unit
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.

5. What are the 3 types of furnaces?
EAF - OHF - BOF
Pieces sticking out away from the columes
High-treated carbon steel
All the walls of the building have been erected - all the walls have been anchored to the slab-on-ground - the roof structure is complete

6. A major benefit of a steel stud backup wall in a in a brick veneer assembly as compaired with a CMU backup wall is its ______
Metals that do not contain Metals
Lighter weight
False
same

7. Compressive Strength Formula
EAF - BOF - OHF
Control joints - Isolation joints - Construction joints
90 to 180 degress
Comressive Strength = load at failure / area = ksi or psi

8. A Mortar capturing device in a brick veneer assembly is used
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.
Wide-Flange section
A reinforced-masonry frame
Immediately about a flashing

9. Joist spacing is generally between ___ and ___ for floors
3in
2 to 4 ft
AISC Type III Connection
2in pg 645

10. A K-series steel joist that is 20 in deep cannot space more than ____
40 ft
Pre-tensioned concrete
Strip Footing
High-treated carbon steel

11. Height adjustablilty in shores made of dimension lumber is provided through___
Force / Area
Allow water washing of concrete after stripping the forms
Lapped members - clamped together with specially made clamps - and screw-based metal assembly
Zinc

12. Joist spacing is generally between ___ and ___ for ceilings?
Cold-formed and light structural steel members - in zinc coating
50
Simple Connection
4 to 6 ft

13. Water-resistant exterior walls may be divided into three types What is one of these?
Encase steel sections in concrete - OR use a Spray-applied fire protection and gypsum board facing
The contained molds in which the concrete is cast
The ground-floor slab of the building is too small to accommodate the precasting of all the walls
Barrier walls

14. A masonry unit has 20% voids is referred to as a...
Gravity - wind and surface tension
Isolation Joints
Asymmetry
Solid unit

15. Capillary break is a...
2 1/2 hours of the initial preparations of mortar
PB pg 703
Wider space in an otherwize narrow joint
Hollow structural section

16. What is the first thing a contractor does at a construction site?
Bed Joints
Modular
excavation
perpendicular

17. Metal anchors are needed to transfer lateral loads to the backup wall in...
Roof and Floor
EAF - BOF - OHF
Some veneer walls
Elevated Slabs and arches - its formwork for arches

18. S-Shape is also called ____
American Standard Shape
General contractor
Lintel angle
Concave

19. Conventional stucco is also called...
Cohesive
Stabilizing members that space across the joists
Portland cement stucco
Continuious waterproof membrane which provides a continuous barrior that originates at the backup wall and penetrates through air space and cladding

20. tilt-up concrete walls are connected to the slab-on ground with
A continuous concrete closure strip in the slab-on-ground.
A conventional wood light frame building
1in
Deck that spans between two opposite walls - and the gravity load on the deck is carried in one direction across the two opposite walls.

21. What are some advantages of using concrete for Load Bearing Walls?
Weep holes
Henry Bessemer in 1855
Carbon steel
Fire-resitive - mold-free - sound-insulating - relatively inexpensive and durable.

22. Which gives greater warning before failure - a brittle or ductile material?
A small opening at the bottom of cladding
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.
Concrete masonry Units
A ductile material

23. The Bottom Right hand Picture is a ______
The exterior cladding in a pressure equalized wall
Zero (0)
Lateral load support to the veneer
Pipe Section

24. Which gives greater warning before failure - a brittle or ductile material?
Steel
Type N
Live ends
A ductile material

25. A bond beam in masonry bearing wall building must be a...
Reinforced-concrete or reinforced masonry beam
The deflection of studs to withstand lateral loads
General contractor
Vertical reinforcing bars

26. 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
True
One piece anchors
Control joints - Isolation joints - Construction joints
Fibrous

27. Bricks are anchored to the frame on every floor or every other floor?
Surface tension
3000 PSI
every floor
Gravel

28. There should only be _____ gravity load connections - also referred to as bearing supports per panel located as near the columns as possible
Water Proofing
Deck that spans between two opposite walls - and the gravity load on the deck is carried in one direction across the two opposite walls.
3/8 greater than the multiples of the masonry unit module.
2

29. What are the two benifits of pressing concret?
Reduced cracking in concret - and reduction in the dimensions of stuctural members
Fire-resitive - mold-free - sound-insulating - relatively inexpensive and durable.
2in
Metals that do not contain Metals

30. Use of the load bearing masonry wall system became extinct for a while and was revived
The size of the masonry that the manufacture would like to achieve.
I Section
After World War 2
Brown coat

31. ____________________ is gerneally preferred over filed welding?
field bolting of steel member
Discontinuity of walls at foundations and requires a heavy transfer structure.
I Section
Cotton ropes - that absorb water from the airspace by capillary action and drain it to the outside.

32. The structural behavior of a contemporary load-bearing masonry wall building is similar to that of...
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
A conventional wood light frame building
2 to 4 ft
7-5/8x7-5/8x15-5/8

33. The important feature of an Exterior drainage wall is...
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes
American Standard Shape
CMU backed brick veneer
F = Force/Area = P (Force) /A (Area)

34. Simple Connection is also called...
Supported by - and anchored to - the buildings structure
A conventional wood light frame building
AISC Type II Connection
18'

35. Bricks that have core holes are ____
Extruded Bricks
2 1/2 in
A continuous concrete closure strip in the slab-on-ground.
Two piece anchor - or which one is embedded in CMU backup and the other is embedded in the Veneers mortar joint

36. What is the First arrow point at?
Pipe Section
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
Providing an impervious barrier to water
Leveling Nut

37. The maximum span of a K-series Joists is ____ times is depth
Less than it's ultimate stress
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall
Solid unit
24

38. Site cast concrete slabs can be one of two types What are they?
GFRC skin - a light gauge steel frame - anchors
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs
A continuous concrete closure strip in the slab-on-ground.
90 to 180 degress

39. A snug-Tight Connection between framing members is obtained by
Heavier members and spans from column to column
0.0025
Bolting the member and rightening them with a spud wrench using full force
Mock-up

40. Flashing needs to have these qualities
Wider space in an otherwize narrow joint
Compression
Control joints in concrete do what?
Flexible - durable - resistance to UV radiation.

41. A fully cured Stucco is ___ thick
7/8in
Upward deflection of a beam to counter downward deflection by a dead load
Construction Joint
Stress / strain = E

42. Is a nonmovment joint in a large concrete slab - and is used when the concrete cannot be placed in one continuous operation.
At each floor level and roof level
Two piece wire anchors
Construction Joint
Tube

43. Unfinished bolts are made from
Carbon steel
By Splitting I sections in half
Each floor level
Depth of the joist in inches

44. The thickness of a roof or floor deck is generally specified in terms of...
Gauge number
Psi - ksi - Pa - and GPa
stress=force/area
By functioning as a water reservior

45. Fine Grained soles are______ with water
Low rise building 1 to 4 stories
Live end
Reinfocing bars are provided at the top and bottom of the beams
Cohesive

46. Where the concrete absorbs the heat from the day and slowly releases it during the night
Favorably
Thermal Mass
The Long part extending from the Foundation into the bed rock - as shown in this picture is called _____
Weep holes

47. A bond beam in masonry bearing wall building
Is embedded in the walls
American Standard Shape
All exterior walls resisted the lateral loads individually
F = Force/Area = P (Force) /A (Area)

48. Built-up sections are made by _____
Zero (0)
Tougher pg 617
Obtaining by welding two or more standard sections together
Carbon steel

49. The stress-strain diagram of ______ steel is nearly a straight line up to the yield point
Construction Joint
cohesive
Mild
Failure stress / allowable stress

50. 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
Gravity - wind and surface tension
24in
That the thickness of exterior masonry walls progressively increase toward the lower floors.
Steel Grade