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. Regarless of the type of footing - the bottom of panel is typically about ____ above top of the footing?
Solid unit
The deflection of studs to withstand lateral loads
3/8 in
2in

2. In general - a _______________ is more forgiving of construction and workmanship deficiencies than a steel stud-brick veneer
tempered glass
Rigid Insulation and Roof cover
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs
CMU backed brick veneer

3. S-Shape is also called ____
3/8
To increase the shear strength of beam above that provided by concrete
Lapped members - clamped together with specially made clamps - and screw-based metal assembly
American Standard Shape

4. Extend the entire thickness of the slab and they ensure that the slab is isolated from the buildings structural componenst so that their movments is not transfered to the slab
Isolation Joints
Open Headed joint
Steel embeds in wall and slab welded together with steel plates
Expanded metal lath

5. What is the typical spacing between studs on center?

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

6. In an English-bonded Wall
Gauge number
As a structure that is made entirely of linear elements - columns and beams.
Gravity - wind and surface tension
The courses alternate between headers ans stretchers

7. In a cross-bearing wall structure - the load bearing walls are...
Pink
Mock-up
Perpendicular to the main axis of the building.
5000 psi

8. In a Multisotry steel frame building - the columns are generally spiced every ____ floors
2
Acrylic polymer-based mix
perpendicular
Hollow structural section

9. Site cast concrete slabs can be one of two types What are they?
excavation
4 to 6 ft
Roof and Floor
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs

10. Semirigid Connection is also called...
AISC Type III Connection
General contractor
stress=force/area
Exterior cladding - Air space - Flashing - Water resistant backup - and weep holes.

11. A bond Beam is provided at ______
Compressive strength and Flexural tensile bond strength
Elastic
Each floor level and roof level in all exterior walls and at all interior bearing walls ans shear walls.
Barrier walls

12. The Slag is what?
Exterior cladding - waterproffing of the backup wall - flashing - weep holes
Compressive strength
Molten Limestone that floats over molten Iron
Gauge number

13. The Very middle one is called _____
1. decking 2. membrane 3. insulation 4. flashing
1in
2 in
I Section

14. Joists between the walls and the floor slabs of a site-cast reinforced concrete bearing wall are _______ than those in msonry wall and precast-concrete hollow-core slab structure.
Tougher pg 617
Approximately equal to the combined cost of concrete and steel
Percast at the construction site
Highly Crosive - Extreme

15. This CMU type resists water infiltration - one ways
Providing an impervious barrier to water
Type S
Zinc
AISC Type III Connection

16. If you are moving the prefabricated formwork for each bay of the floor as a complete unit and the put it into position with a crane This is refereed to as ____
Flying forms
Reservoir
A325
Steel Grade

17. In high-rised residential buildings with site cast reinforced concrete bearing walls - the floors and the roofs are generally constructed of...
Site cast concrete slabs
Ties are generally not provided in a concrete wall
Shores
Mild

18. The Vertical Lines that are not connected to Beams are called ____
T section
In plane shear between the wall and the floor or roof deck
Joists
Cold-formed and light structural steel members - in zinc coating

19. A shear connection between a steel beam and a steel column can be made without _________ to the column
Force / Area
3in
connection beam flanges
Shores

20. The Dark things in the Corner are ____
Construction Joint
A large formwork assembly for concrete walls
Square - rectangular or round
Columns

21. Suction that pulls wind driven rain into the airspace of a drainage wall takes place on the __________ of the wall
Tube
Cylinder measuring 6 inches in diameter x 12 in high
windward face
Mildly

22. The greater the _____ the great the torsion created - which increases the cost of the structure.
Asymmetry
Water Proofing
Fall within the range of loads spans that are common in buildings
Mild

23. What is Core Holes?
Depth of the joist in inches
CMU backed brick veneer
Fall within the range of loads spans that are common in buildings
Extruded bricks that have through-through hols.

24. Slagwool is _____
2 1/2 in
Noncombustible and is similar to fiberglass - manufacture of insulation.
A ductile material
Hoizontal bridging members at the bottom of the joists - and horizontal briging members at the top of the joists

25. A vapor retarder is required under
Metals that contain Iron
Scratch coat
Some interior concrete slabs-on-ground
Compression

26. The Horizontal Lines in the Middle are called ____
Beams
Mild
Site cast concrete slabs
Alkali resistant

27. W section I beam with a nominal depth of 16' and a weight of 50 lbs for 2 foot
1in
W16X25
All exterior walls resisted the lateral loads individually
Exposed aggregate finish by water washing - Abrasive blasting - acid etching

28. Arch welding is where
Alkali resistant
Plastic - and Steel chairs with plastic-coated feet
A36
Two terminals of high-voltage electric circuit are brought close together and creating a sutained spark across the space between the terminals

29. What is an Isolation Joint?

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

30. Water resistant layer on the backup wall protects it from
Prevent the buckling of vertical reinforcement in columns
Water that may reach the backup by traveling over metal anchors or unintentional obstructions in the air space
Elastic
1. Girder-primary 2. Beam-secondary 3. joist-tertiary

31. What are the two benifits of pressing concret?
Reduced cracking in concret - and reduction in the dimensions of stuctural members
Providing an impervious barrier to water
Plortland cement-based mix
Open-Hearth furnace

32. 8in Thick CMU wall is ______

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

33. The minimum required width of airspace between brick veneer and CMU backup wall is...
2in
SJI
The connections between the walls and the floor or roof decks
True

34. The minimum width of air space generally used between brick veneer and wood stud backup wall is...
1in
Molded bricks
Flying forms
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.

35. Standard CMU size
Leveling Nut
7-5/8x7-5/8x15-5/8
Sloped toward the interior roof
Stiff

36. Twist-off Bolt method is...
Cylinder measuring 6 inches in diameter x 12 in high
A special electric wrench is used that induces a predetermined torque bolt
Flying forms
Barrier walls

37. Who designed the kaunthaus bregenz?
1. decking 2. membrane 3. insulation 4. flashing
Two flange plates
Peter Zumther
3000 PSI

38. in a pressure-equalized wall the backup wall must be
A single wythe of brick (usally 4in nominal thickness)
90 to 180 degress
Air tight
Grouted and reinforced with horizontal steel dowels

39. a backup wall is required in a...
Veneer wall
Air tight
Gravity - wind and surface tension
Ground-Supported slabs area____

40. What is the maximum height for a storefront window system?
10-13 feet.
Noncombustible and is similar to fiberglass - manufacture of insulation.
Interegral to the mix of the finish coat pg 702
True

41. A bond beam in masonry bearing wall building
stress=force/area
Is embedded in the walls
every floor
Structural concrete fill

42. Shear stress formula
Steel Joist Institute
The Long part extending from the Foundation into the bed rock - as shown in this picture is called _____
Less than it's ultimate stress
Force / Area

43. The Slag is what?
Individual elements - tha do not have continuity to resist diaphragm tension - and are anchored to to masonry beams.
Portland cement stucco
Low-rise buildings generally up to 50 ft
Molten Limestone that floats over molten Iron

44. In relation to it's compressive strength - the tensile strength of concrete is...
same
A sufficient number and adequate lengths of walls must be provided in both principal directions of a building
Much lower
3/5/8x2/1/4x7/5/8

45. The simplest cellular-type plan is a_______
Lug
Single-story - rectangular (box type)
The exterior cladding in a pressure equalized wall
Live ends

46. Where the concrete absorbs the heat from the day and slowly releases it during the night
Wider space in an otherwize narrow joint
4000 psi
Thermal Mass
3/8 greater than the multiples of the masonry unit module.

47. The thicker the wall the larger the _______ needs to be
24
Reservoir
Alkali resistant
Construction Joint

48. the coping on a masonry fence wall is generally...
30ft
Either tension or compression
Sloped on both sides
G30 - G60 - G120

49. The structural design of formwork design is the reponsibility of the
Flat-plate floor - and one-way joist floor
Ground-Supported Slabs - Elevated Slabs
General contractor
Gravel

50. Fine Grained soles are______ with water
25 ft and not more than 10 ft from the walls corner
T section
Cohesive
1in