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1. A Steel angle used to support the weight of Brick veneer over an opening is called a...
Mildly
4 to 6 ft
A conventional wood light frame building
Lintel angle

2. The first coat of stucco is called...
Cylinder measuring 6 inches in diameter x 12 in high
Scratch coat
1/2 to 3/4 thick
Live end

3. Conventional stucco is also called...
Portland cement stucco
Live ends
Actual strength / required strength
Lighter member that spans between the girders

4. What is the maximum height for a storefront window system?
10-13 feet.
Elevated Slabs
Grouted and reinforced with horizontal steel dowels
Floor decks

5. A ____ sized gap is needed between adjacent lengths to provide for the shelf angles expansion.
T section
3/8 in
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.
Perpendicular to the main axis of the building.

6. The 'perfect' amount of carbon is from .01 to 1.7% - this metal is called ______
0.0025
Steel
Parallel - wider
Plortland cement-based mix

7. The primary purpose of longitudinal steel bars in a reinforced concrete beam is to overcome the weakness of concrete in ______
Tension
Gauge number
Snap Tie
K-series - LH series - DHL series

8. List the Mortar types from greatest Comprssive strength to The lowest compressive strength
A 100% solid unit
M -S -N -O
Air tight
All sheet-steel components are fabricated by rolling and pressing the sheets into carious cross-sectional profiles at room temperature

9. In what order are roof componants placed:
1. decking 2. membrane 3. insulation 4. flashing
20 ft
Steel
Beams

10. The most water tight joint is ____
Concave
2 in
stablize joists
Iron ore and coke are mixed together in a Furnace

11. the GFRC skin is obtained by
Reinforced concrete member
Basic Oxygen Furnace
The Horizontal members of this image for formwork is called ______
Spraying the mix over a mold

12. Effloresecence
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall
Concrete masonry Units
Snap Tie
25 ft in the field of the wall and 10 ft from a wall's corner.

13. According to building codes - plain concrete (concrete without steel reinforement is not permitted in new construction.
Cross bearing Walls plane
False
laminated glass - so that glass shards don't rain down death.
Mid- to-high rise masonry bearing wall residential buildings

14. In a tilt up wall constuction system - the walls are...
Prevent the buckling of longitudinal column bars
Percast at the construction site
True
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.

15. Girder is...
Steel fabricator
Drilled pier footing
Pieces sticking out away from the columes
Is embedded in the walls

16. A concrete member containing reinfrocing bars is called _____
Extruded Bricks
Reinforced concrete member
Heavier members and spans from column to column
Portland cement stucco

17. This type of form work has gained favor in constructing high-rise reinforced-concrete bearing walls structures
False
Tunnel Form
1in
24

18. 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
PB pg 703
Single-story - rectangular (box type)
8 in

19. Floor deck is usally topped with a _____
3/8 greater than the multiples of the masonry unit module.
Structural concrete fill
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall
Sloped toward the interior roof

20. In connecting the upper-Column shaft with a lower-column shaft in a multistory steel frame building - we generally require?
Head Joints
2in pg 645
Two flange plates
A reinforced-masonry frame

21. What is the 2 arrow?
The Vertical lumber on this image of formwork is called ______
True
Base Plate
Shores

22. Mortar-Capturing device is a...
Immediately above the flashing
Control joints in concrete do what?
Device that consists of a mesh made of polymeric strands witch trap the droppings and suspend them permanently above the weep hole
5000 psi

23. A wall footing is also called _____
Favorably
3000 psi
The cladding resists all the wind load
Strip Footing

24. Steel decks are availiable in two catagories ___ and ____
Longitudinal bearing Wall Plan.
Providing a anomalous slope in the surface.
2 in
Roof and Floor

25. The arrows next to the Column and the base plate are indications of what?
Tougher pg 617
Two piece wire anchors
Steel embeds in wall and slab welded together with steel plates
That it is welded

26. The bending stresses along the neutral axis of a beam are _________
By functioning as a water reservior
A sufficient number and adequate lengths of walls must be provided in both principal directions of a building
2in
Zero (0)

27. Z-flashing is effective in...
52-72
False
Reinforced-concrete or reinforced masonry beam
A horizontal butt join in cladding

28. A wall footing is also called _____
Strip Footing
Type S
5000 psi
Comressive Strength = load at failure / area = ksi or psi

29. The maximum spacing for one piece - corrigated anchor or an adjustable - two piece wire anchor is limited by the code to one anchor for every _____
2.67 ft
Water Proofing
A325
Hoizontal bridging members at the bottom of the joists - and horizontal briging members at the top of the joists

30. Basic Oxygen Furnace did what?
It took the excess carbon in the moten pig iron and was converted to carbon dioxide by blowing oxygen through it
MOre Crrosive Enviroment - Hot
Extruded bricks that have through-through hols.
32 in on center and not more than 18 in vertically

31. The concrete tilt-up wall construction system is generally used in...
Low rise building 1 to 4 stories
A992
1kip=1000psi
2in

32. Pretensioned concrete & tensioned concrete have ______ stress
Individual elements - tha do not have continuity to resist diaphragm tension - and are anchored to to masonry beams.
structural frame
2in
same

33. The structural design of formwork design is the reponsibility of the
General contractor
1. decking 2. membrane 3. insulation 4. flashing
Columns
In plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck

34. The Self-Furring glavanized steel lath(diamond pattern) is called what?
After World War 2
Grouted Space
Exterior cladding - Air space - Flashing - Water resistant backup - and weep holes.
Expanded metal lath

35. 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 ___
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.
3000 PSI
144^2 - 18ft.
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)

36. Standard CMU size
Ties are generally not provided in a concrete wall
7-5/8x7-5/8x15-5/8
Noncohesive Soils
S50X30

37. Rinforced-Masonry walls are ________
Adding water to the mortar
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.
Walls with vertical reinforcement
Collect and channel any water that gets into the air space back to the exterior

38. What is the bottom piece called?
I Section
Footing
Water that may reach the backup by traveling over metal anchors or unintentional obstructions in the air space
Reinforced concrete wall - CMU wall - wood or steel stud wall

39. Most common used Veneer wall is...
3/8
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)
The exterior cladding in a pressure equalized wall
Stretcher Face

40. Horizontal Mortar joints are also called ______
The Vertical lumber on this image of formwork is called ______
stablize joists
Bed Joints
Adding water to the mortar

41. This CMU type resists water infiltration - one ways
Gravity load from the floor or roof deck to the wall
Hoizontal bridging members at the bottom of the joists - and horizontal briging members at the top of the joists
Providing an impervious barrier to water
7/8in

42. The Very middle one is called _____
I Section
EAF - OHF - BOF
Pre-tensioned concrete
AISC Type I Connection

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44. This CMU type resists water infiltration - one ways
Hot Rolling
Average annual freezing cycle days - and average annual winter rainfall of the location
By functioning as a water reservior
Mock-up

45. The Slag is what?
Is the Deposit of white substance on a masonry wall
Molten Limestone that floats over molten Iron
8
2in pg 645

46. S section I beam with a nominal depth of 50' and a weight of 60 lbs per 3 feet
Mild
Lintel angle
Shelf angle anchored to the structural frame of the building
S50X30

47. The maximum distance between fastners for stucco is...
Cold-formed and light structural steel members - in zinc coating
Square - rectangular or round
7 in
Providing an impervious barrier to water

48. Rasping is what?
A continuous concrete closure strip in the slab-on-ground.
Sanding smooth the insulation boards for EIFS
As a structure that is made entirely of linear elements - columns and beams.
Weak in shear

49. The bending stresses along the neutral axis of a beam are _________
Open - vertical mortar joint in the veneer.
Zero (0)
Force / Area
Fire-resitive - mold-free - sound-insulating - relatively inexpensive and durable.

50. A common type of Form Tie is ____
Bearing connection
Snap Tie
True
Plortland cement-based mix

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