Building Construction Flashcards
A ____ is a wooden peg used to pin together mortise and tenon joints?
Trunnel
A ___ is built into a wall to receive the end of a girder?
Cast iron box
A joisted floor has one tremendous advantage over the truss floor system: Each joist acts as a ____?
Fire stop
A party wall is ____ than two separate walls?
Thinner
A space within a beam where there is neither tension nor compression is known as the ___?
Neutral plane
A type of collapse that leaves a single triangular void space is ___?
Lean-to-floor collapse
A ___ code applies to all structures and conditions within them, including existing hazards that were created even before the adoption of the code.
Fire
All loads of a heavy timber building must be delivered to the ___?
Ground
All the following are major areas of concern in ordinary construction buildings except___?
The non-bearing wood walls as a barrier to fire
Although still a possibility, “cold water on red hot iron” may not be the chief cause of cast-iron column failure. What do the authors believe is the main cause of failure?
Unsafe connections
At about ___ degrees F, steel will begin to elongate.
1000 F
Building codes regular the size and height of structures, based on the construction classification and the ___?
Occupancy type
Cold-drawn still will fail at what temperature?
800 F
Concrete is mixture of Portland cement, water, and _____?
Aggregates
Concrete is inherently?
Non-combustivle
Concrete is test in _____ because it virtually has no tensile strength.
Compression
Concrete is weak in ____ strength and has poor shear resistance?
Tensile
Draftstopping consists of plywood, sheet metal, or other approved material and is installed to protect against ____ fire spread.
Horizontal
Firefighters are reduced to just reacting to a fire rather than being prepared for its many potential hazards I they do not do what?
Conduct pre-fire plans
Fire stops typically limit the ___ movement of fire through small, concealed passages.
Vertical
Heavy timber construction is a descendent of true ____ construction?
Mill
In a cantilever beam, the tension is in the ___ of the beam?
Top
In the typical downtown ordinary construction buildings, the side walls are the _____ walls, whereas the the front and back walls are ____?
bearing, non-bearing
It is essential that you have a working knowledge of how buildings are designed, constructed, ____, altered, and fall into disrepair.
Renovated
What is the the max height of a non-combustible building?
12 stories
Masonry walls are not designed to resist ____?
Lateral impact loads
Masonry walls in ordinary construction may consist of all of the following_____?
concrete block or terra cotta tile
What are the major problems with the modification procedures in heavy timber construction?
Void space creation, unsprinklered areas, and steel trusses and girders may be used instead of heavy timber.
Reinforced concrete is a ____ material?
Composite
Steel cable will have complete failure at ___degrees F?
800 F
Steel heated to ____ degrees elongates 9 inches per 100 feet of length?
1000
Steel pipes filled with concrete to increase their load-carrying caps its are known as?
Lally Columns
Steel provides the ____ strength that concrete lacks?
Tensile
The bottom chord of a truss is said to be in ____, while the top chord is under ____?
Tension,
Compression
The destruction of the World Trade Center is best described as a ___?
Global Collapse
What are some of the ways to stabilize a wall in ordinary construction?
Buttresses or masses of masonry outside the walls, pilasters or columns built inside the walls, wall columns built within the wall.
What are two methods used for pre-stressing?
Pre-tensioning, post tensioning
What construction method describes a building where all the concrete is properly bonded together and acts as one?
Monolithic construction
What toxic gas is now believed to be as great a danger as carbon monoxide in fire situations?
Hydrogen Cyanide
When a brick is lad so that the long side is visible, it is referred to as ___?
Stretcher course
When a column is offset, the girder on which it rests becomes a ____ beam?
Transfer
When exposed to fire, plywood will begin to ____?
Delaminate
Which item would lessen the coder requirements for a given building?
Sprinkler System
Which type of wall is of a non-load-bearing nature and can carry boo other height than its own?
Curtain wall
Why would it be beneficial to separate pre-fire planing and the inspection function?
Because inspections are essentially a policing function
____ are concrete pads, usually heavily reinforced, that transfer the loads of priers or columns to the ground?
Footings
____ are false spaces above built-in cabinets, usually in a kitchen or in the undersides of stairways and projecting eaves
Soffits
____ loads can be accurately calculated while ____ loads are indeterminate.
Dead,
live
____ spell out what types of buildings can be built in specific locations in a city and what they can be used for?
Zoning Regulations.
