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Masonry Basics
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Severe weathering - Harsh Winter - Springs - Summer
Course
SW
Concrete Block Advantages
Extreme Temperature Construction
2. Bigger hole / add rebar
MW
Portland Cement - Water and Sand
Type M
Hollow Brick
3. Bigger hole / add rebar
SW
Manufactured Stone
Hollow Brick
Monk Bond
4. Soft Mud Process - Dry Mud Process and Stiff Mud Process
Rubble Stone
Igneous Rock
3 Methods to Make Bricks
NW
5. Stretcher - header - stretcher
Header
Flemish Bond
Mortar Joint
Corbel
6. Are porous
Asklar
Concrete Block Advantages
Sedimentary Rock
Moisture Resistances
7. Deposited by action of water or wind
Lime - Water and Sand
Sedimentary Rock
Masonry Weaknesses
Hollow Brick
8. (1800psi) (12.4 mpa) Medium High Strength - High Flexural - bond strength - only 4 normal compressive loads
Type S
Type O
Runner Bond
Corbel
9. Igneous Rock - Sedimentary Rock and Metamorphic Rock
Type O
Masonry Weaknesses
Types of Stone
SW
10. Running bond every so many coarse
Common Bond or Ameican Bond
Portland Cement - Water - lime and Sand
Type O
Corbel
11. Mortar Joint - Moisture Resistance and Extreme Temperature Construction
Masonry Weaknesses
Wythe
Soldier
Reinforcing
12. Rock deposited in a molton state
Igneous Rock
Course
Bond Types
Portland Cement - Water and Sand
13. Cold Weather - Dry Ingredients - Accelerate Cure - Batch Size - Enclosures and Heat
Extreme Temperature Construction
Accessories
Portland Cement - Water and Sand
Flemish Bond
14. 1 horizontal row of Brick
Cored Brick
Fieldstone
Solid Brick
Course
15. Mortar Joint - Moisture Resistance and Extreme Temperature Construction
Mortar Joint
Masonry Weaknesses
Single Wythe Wall
Wythe
16. Brick with holes in em (Better gripping strength)
Moisture Resistances
Type M
SW
Cored Brick
17. Made up of squared pieces (rectangular blocks)
Asklar
Monk Bond
Stone Types and Shapes
Monk Bond
18. Made in molds taken directly from real stone - Thin material - 1 1/2 Inches think - made of light weight concrete dried to match the coloration - of the authentic stone that its meant to imitate
Runner Bond
Accessories
Brick Grades
Manufactured Stone
19. Moderate Weathering / Mild / Lower grade strength durabillty
Stack Bond
Header Bond
MW
Bricklaying Terms
20. Consists of irregular quarried fragments that have at least one good face to expose in a wall
Cut Stone
Wythe
Portland Cement - Water and Sand
Rubble Stone
21. Course - Wythe - Stretcher - Header - Rowlock - Soldier and Corbel
Bricklaying Terms
Igneous Rock
Concrete Block Advantages
Type S
22. Is a layer / bricks wide a wall is
Course
Stone Types and Shapes
Wythe
Accessories
23. Fieldstone and Rubble Stone
Stone Types and Shapes
Concrete Block Advantages
Sedimentary Rock
Flemish Bond
24. Header - stretch - header
Rubble Stone
Monk Bond
Common Bond or Ameican Bond
Stretcher
25. End of the block
Header Bond
Rubble Stone
Header
Metamorphic Rock
26. Soft Mud Process - Dry Mud Process and Stiff Mud Process
Sedimentary Rock
3 Methods to Make Bricks
Type N
Monk Bond
27. Limited spanning capability / small opening in brick walls each brick sticks out more
SW
Common Bond or Ameican Bond
Sedimentary Rock
Corbel
28. (2500psi) (17.25 mpa) High Strength mortar - High lateral - compressive loads - severe frost action - Below grade
Stack Bond
Lime - Water and Sand
Hollow Brick
Type M
29. Either igneous or sedimentary has been transformed by heat and pressure into a diff types of rock
Asklar
Fieldstone
Type S
Metamorphic Rock
30. Rectangle of clay Flat on all sides
Solid Brick
Corbel
Types of Stone Masonry
Stack Bond
31. Weakest in most masonry wall
Single Wythe Wall
Type S
Types of Stone
Mortar Joint
32. Cut Stone and Asklar
Cored Brick
Dimension Stone
Stone Types and Shapes
Portland Cement - Water - lime and Sand
33. Looks like running bond but made from headers
Flemish Bond
Stack Bond
Portland Cement - Water - lime and Sand
Header Bond
34. End of the block
Header
Wythe
Asklar
Moisture Resistances
35. Runner Bond and Raking Stretcher Bond
Types of Stone Masonry
3 Methods to Make Bricks
Single Wythe Wall
Header Bond
36. 2nd Monolithic
Portland Cement - Water and Sand
Flemish Bond
Soldier
Asklar
37. (30psi) (2.40) Medium Low Strength - Non load bearing interior.
Header
Moisture Resistances
Type O
Masonry Weaknesses
38. (2500psi) (17.25 mpa) High Strength mortar - High lateral - compressive loads - severe frost action - Below grade
Stack Bond
Type M
Portland Cement - Water - lime and Sand
Asklar
39. Looks like running bond but made from headers
Monk Bond
Extreme Temperature Construction
Raking Stretcher Bond
Header Bond
40. Rock deposited in a molton state
Igneous Rock
Double Wythe Wall
Raking Stretcher Bond
Brick Grades
41. (750psi) (5.17) Medium Strength - General use above grade.
NW
Type N
Rowlock
Masonry Weaknesses
42. (750psi) (5.17) Medium Strength - General use above grade.
Type N
3 Methods to Make Bricks
Concrete Block Advantages
Extreme Temperature Construction
43. Rough building stone that is obtained from riverbeds and rock strewn fields
SW
Fieldstone
Types of Stone
Soldier
44. Every other coarse and repeats itself
SW
Cut Stone
Runner Bond
Soldier
45. Will over lap the one below it by half the dimension over laps 1/3 of the brick
Rowlock
Raking Stretcher Bond
Flemish Bond
Types of Stone Masonry
46. Solid - Cored - Hollow and Frogged
Type O
Rubble Stone
Brick Types
Double Wythe Wall
47. Severe weathering - Harsh Winter - Springs - Summer
Wythe
SW
Header
Header
48. Deposited by action of water or wind
Portland Cement - Water and Sand
Bond Types
Dimension Stone
Sedimentary Rock
49. Running bond every so many coarse
Common Bond or Ameican Bond
Hollow Brick
Header Bond
Corbel
50. Normal way to lay a brick
Wythe
Stack Bond
Stretcher
Cut Stone