Test your basic knowledge |

Construction Basics

Instructions:

Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. the most commonly used strength of concrete for tilt-up
Large - prefabricated - tunnel forms that allow walls and slabs to be cast simultaneously
4000 psi
Pipe Section
Water Proofing

2. The Dark things in the Corner are ____
Air tight
Columns
90 to 180 degress
True

3. Wicks or plastic tubes have a diamenter of...
A reinforced-masonry frame
Unequal distribution of air pressure on the exterior of the wall and in the airspace between the cladding an d the backup wall.
Hard coat EIFS
3/8

4. ASTM standards require that the area between control joints in stucco applied on a stud wall assembly not exceed ______ with neither deminsion of this area exceeding ___
2in
Steel fabricator
144^2 - 18ft.
1in

5. a curtian wal is typically used in buildings whose structural system consists of...
Cinder Block
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes
20 ft
Reinforced concrete or steel frame structure

6. There should only be _____ gravity load connections - also referred to as bearing supports per panel located as near the columns as possible
True
2
40 ft
The Framework

7. The bearing strength of a material is closely related to it's ___________
Compressive strength
A 100% solid unit
Wide-Flange section
3/8

8. In a Typical sitecast reinforced Concrete structure - the cost of formwork and shores is...
Approximately equal to the combined cost of concrete and steel
Ties are generally not provided in a concrete wall
Masonry walls without virtical reinforcement.
Surface tension

9. The Nominal Dimensions of masonry units
Exposed aggregate finish by water washing - Abrasive blasting - acid etching
Is the Specified dimension plus one mortar joint thickness
2in pg 645
As a structure that is made entirely of linear elements - columns and beams.

10. What is the priority of a girder - beam - and joist floor in order.
Pieces sticking out away from the columes
1. Girder-primary 2. Beam-secondary 3. joist-tertiary
SJI
Hard coat EIFS

11. Molten iron from the blast furnace is converted to molten steel by one of three ways - which is the Three?
Footing
EAF - BOF - OHF
Bearing connection
As a structure that is made entirely of linear elements - columns and beams.

12. Conventional stucco is also called...
Mock-up
40 ft
Lighter weight
Portland cement stucco

13. Who designed the kaunthaus bregenz?
Base Plate
Spraying the mix over a mold
2 1/2 hours of the initial preparations of mortar
Peter Zumther

14. Conventional stucco is also called...
2 in
Portland cement stucco
Prevent the buckling of vertical reinforcement in columns
Weak in shear

15. What is the Fill Made up of?
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall
connection beam flanges
Cohesive
Gravel

16. A joint screen is an
Provide unifrom drying and firing of bricks
The size of the masonry that the manufacture would like to achieve.
True
L-shaped sheet metal or plastic element - that has a vertical leg that has openings to let the water out

17. Girder is...
Exterior cladding - Air space - Flashing - Water resistant backup - and weep holes.
40 ft
Pieces sticking out away from the columes
2

18. The combination of bond Beams and Vertically reinforced CMU cells forms _______
A reinforced-masonry frame
Upward deflection of a beam to counter downward deflection by a dead load
Bearing connection
Zinc

19. Bond beams are _____
Individual elements - tha do not have continuity to resist diaphragm tension - and are anchored to to masonry beams.
Compressive strength
2in pg 645
Metals that do not contain Metals

20. Laminated glass can be made with ____________ or annealed glass
A large formwork assembly for concrete walls
Joists
tempered glass
To increase the shear strength of beam above that provided by concrete

21. The simplest and most effective weep hols is a _____
Deck that the load is transferred to all four walls - and are generally of site-cast concrete.
4
16 in
Open - vertical mortar joint in the veneer.

22. The required color of a stucco surface is...
Water that may reach the backup by traveling over metal anchors or unintentional obstructions in the air space
perpendicular
Interegral to the mix of the finish coat pg 702
Reinfocing bars are provided at the top and bottom of the beams

23. fixed anchor assemly is called a ____
4
Isolated pad footing
Dead End
General contractor

24. What is a construction joint?
True
Gravity - wind and surface tension
a nonmovement joint in a large concrete slab. It is used when concrete cannot be placed in on continuous operation.
Compressive strength - boling-water absorbation - and saturation coefficient of the bricks

25. A fully cured Stucco is ___ thick
7/8in
Longitudinal bearing Wall Plan.
32 in on center and not more than 18 in vertically
A felexible connection that allows the ends of the beam to rotate under the load.

26. W-Shape is also called _____
2
In plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck
Wide-Flange section
36 ksi

27. The Dark things in the Corner are ____
Columns
Walls with overhangs
Lateral load support to the veneer
Tension

28. Wicks or Tubes need a spacing of ____ to go with open-head joints
Grouted and reinforced with horizontal steel dowels
Concrete masonry Units
16 in
Gas or arc

29. A bond Beam is provided at ______
Brick ledge
Better
Immediately above the flashing
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.

30. In a Multisotry steel frame building - the columns are generally spiced every ____ floors
Sloped - thinner
Parallel - wider
2
Flexural and Shear.

31. Steel Joist Institue classifies joists into three categories. What are they?
K-series - LH series - DHL series
The concrete is cast at the site
Vertical
Reinforced concrete wall - CMU wall - wood or steel stud wall

32. ____ are used to Support the Rebar up off pf the ground
Beams and Columns
Chairs
Zinc
Columns

33. Bear directly on a compacted ground with the organic top soil removed.
Ground-Supported slabs area____
Hollow structural section
Walls with overhangs
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

34. HSS can be what Shape?
Gravity - wind and surface tension
Square - rectangular or round
Angle section (L)
A sufficient number and adequate lengths of walls must be provided in both principal directions of a building

35. What is the priority of a girder - beam - and joist floor in order.
EAF - BOF - OHF
Bolting the member and rightening them with a spud wrench using full force
Roof and Floor
1. Girder-primary 2. Beam-secondary 3. joist-tertiary

36. Basic Oxygen Furnace did what?
Live end
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it
Bed Joints
Encase steel sections in concrete - OR use a Spray-applied fire protection and gypsum board facing

37. The Top Left hand Corner is a ____ Beam
Angle section (L)
excavation
Henry Bessemer in 1855
3/5/8x2/1/4x7/5/8

38. Water-resistant exterior walls may be divided into three types What is one of these?
Drainage Walls
Construction Joint
annealed glass
Large - prefabricated - tunnel forms that allow walls and slabs to be cast simultaneously

39. What are the types of concrete slabs and their function?
The Horizontal members of this image for formwork is called ______
Pre-cast concrete hollow-core slabs
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
A325

40. What is an Isolation Joint?

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183

41. Plymer modified EIFS are also called...
3in
Hard coat EIFS
10-13 feet.
Individual elements - tha do not have continuity to resist diaphragm tension - and are anchored to to masonry beams.

42. The use of ONe-way decks yields the following two types of bearing wall planes name one?
Expanded metal lath
Shelf angle anchored to the structural frame of the building
Beams
Longitudinal bearing Wall Plan.

43. This type of form work has gained favor in constructing high-rise reinforced-concrete bearing walls structures
Tunnel Form
Exterior cladding and a inner backup wall and a intervening air space between the cladding and the backup
Grade 50 steel
Wider space in an otherwize narrow joint

44. Stirrups are used in Concrete beam ____
3/8
Workablity - water rentivity - and water tightness
EAF - BOF - OHF
To increase the shear strength of beam above that provided by concrete

45. High-strength bolts have the same charterisitcs as ____
Actual strength / required strength
False
Lighter Weight - Easier Erection
A325

46. Is a nonmovment joint in a large concrete slab - and is used when the concrete cannot be placed in one continuous operation.
All exterior walls resisted the lateral loads individually
AISC Type II Connection
Residential
Construction Joint

47. Coarse-Grained soils are refered to as ______ with water
AISC Type III Connection
Two flange plates
Noncohesive Soils
tempered glass

48. The most common thickness for mortar is____
3/8
Bearing connection
Construction Joint
18 to 48 in

49. The anchors in a brick veneer wall assembly provide
Compression
W-shaped beams - Steel joints
Lateral load support to the veneer
Control joints - Isolation joints - Construction joints

50. Mechanical couplers are used
Single-story - rectangular (box type)
Where lap splicing of reinforcing bars will produce excessive congestion
Henry Bessemer in 1855
Zero (0)