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Construction Basics

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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






2. They provide a weakness in the slab at predetermined locations to force the slab to crak there and not somewhere else.






3. What is a construction joint?






4. To protect reinforcment from corrosion - a minimum amount of concrete is ____






5. The Very middle one is called _____






6. NonFerrous Metals are...






7. Drainage wall must have sufficient built-in redundancy to remain infiltration free for the entire life of the building that includes.






8. What are the types of concrete slabs and their function?






9. The Middle-THird Rule indicated that ______






10. in a suspension bridge - Which member(s) is (are) in compression






11. G120 is for ____ corrosive enviroment






12. OHF full name is?






13. Unfinished bolts have the same charateristics as ____ steel






14. The arrows next to the Column and the base plate are indications of what?






15. Low carbon (mild) steel is a(an) __________ material






16. EAF full name is?






17. 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 ___






18. Which type of EIF is most used?






19. The primary purpose of longitudinal steel bars in a reinforced concrete beam is to overcome the weakness of concrete in ______






20. Molten iron from the blast furnace is converted to molten steel by one of three ways - which is the Three?






21. The most commonly used steel for framming menbers is_______






22. What is Core Holes?






23. The Top right hand Beam is called a






24. The Glass fibers used in GFRC skin are referred to as AR fibers. the Term AR is an acronym for...






25. Capillary break is a...






26. Cellular-type plan is ______






27. Flat glass obtained from the float glass process - without further treatment - is the basic glass - referred to as _____________






28. Thermal Mass is _____






29. Stress Formula






30. A steel with a yeild strenth of 50 ksi is also called _____






31. in an ideal pressure-equalized drainage wall






32. Site cast concrete slabs can be one of two types What are they?






33. The greater the _____ the great the torsion created - which increases the cost of the structure.






34. What is the Fill Made up of?






35. Strain Formula






36. Plastic tubes work ____ than wicks






37. Per ASTM standars - facing bricks are classiffied as Types FBS - FBX. amd FBA. Which of these types has the most stringent requirements for dimensional tolerance - chippage - and warpage?






38. Site-cast is when ____






39. Name one of the types of foundations of tilt-up walls






40. A fully cured Stucco is ___ thick






41. The concrete tilt-up wall construction system is generally used in...






42. fixed anchor assemly is called a ____






43. Materials used for Formwork are___






44. Rasping is what?






45. in an ideal pressure-equalized drainage wall






46. In a cross-bearing wall structure - the load bearing walls are...






47. ____ are used to Support the Rebar up off pf the ground






48. In what order are roof componants placed:






49. Vertical Mortar joints are also called _____






50. A shelf angle must be anchored to the building's...