GENERAL FOCUS Flashcards
What is the acceptable height of the bottom of an
overhead cabinet in the kitchen (from floor
to bottom of cabinet)?
1.4 meters
T/F An over-reinforced beam is ideal and safe.
FALSE.
Why?
- Concrete will
fail instantaneously
without warning
after the failure
of steel
reinforcements
A wood or metal material used to anchor
and elevate a roof tile over its
undersheeting.
Batten
Which type of hardboard made from wood
fibers glued under heat and
pressure and may be utilized for doors and
furniture?
Medium Density
Board
How is a concrete cantilevered beam
reinforced?
By providing extra top
bars at and near the
support to resist
tension
Concrete cover for cast-in-place concrete
permanently exposed to earth ,such as a
footing?
75 mm
A ferrous material with a very low carbon
content which is malleable, tough and
ductile and is produced from pig iron in a
way to remove carbon and
other impurities
Wrought Iron
A mat footing may be ideal for this kind of
situation where there is a possible
relative movement of parts of a structure
caused by uneven settlement of the
underlying soil.
Differential
Settlement
A bolt which has smooth, domed heads,
with a square section underneath,
that pulls into the material to prevent
spinning during installation, and used
where the head may be inaccessible during
tightening.
Carriage Bolt
Due to its appearance, this waterproofing
material used for roof decks and
basements, and may require a concrete
topping to protect from any impact that
may compromise the system as well as
have a more presentable surface. The
system may be installed by torching the
surface to activate adhesion to the concrete
base.
Bituminous
Waterproofing
T/F
The slab has main reinforcements running
in both ways if the ratio of the long span to the short span of the slab is less than 2.
TRUE
How do you reinforce a 0.60m-wide wall
footing for a 3-meter long CHB wall?
3 pcs 12mm main
bars with 12mm
transverse bars
every 0.30m O.C.
A column has a size of 0.40 x 0.40 meters.
If 20mm steel bars are to be used, which of
the following is an appropriate and
acceptable number of vertical steel
reinforcements to be provided?
12 pieces
How do you determine the thickness of a
cantilevered slab?
Length of Slab / 10
A test that utilizes open ended conical
cones and measures the workability of
a freshly mixed concrete.
Slump Test
A layer between the finishing roof material
and the surface or framing and
usually serving as an additional layer of
weatherproofing and drainage such as
in the case of installing clay tiles.
Undersheeting
Length of end lapping for corrugated Gl
roofing
10 - 12 inches
How are the steel reinforcements in a CHB
wall laid out?
10mm dia every 3
rows vertical and
0.60m horizontal
Which of the following is the most
reasonable reinforcement for an 8-inch
thick retaining wall?
16mm vertical bars
spaced at 200mm
and 12mm
horizontal bars
spaced
at 250m. Both faces.
L-shaped, machine threaded bolts. typically
embedded in concrete during
pouring used to fasten steel or wood with
it.
Anchor Bolts
T/F
Dead load includes the weight of the
construction materials, fixtures and
furniture.
FALSE
An arrangement of braces fixed between
wood floor joists to keep them in place and
distribute the load to adjacent floor joists.
Bridging
This component dissolves the paint to
make it usable and workable at normal
room temperature.
Solvent
The part of a wooden staircase supports
the steps
Stringer
How do you measure the depth of footing?
From the NGL to
the bottom of
footing
Elements added to steel to create stainless
steel.
Nickel & Chromium
What will be the length of the extra bottom
bars on a suspended beam which has a clear span of 8 meters?
1.6 meters
3.2 meters
4.8 meters
5.4 meters
A reinforcing material to resist shear and
diagonal tension stresses in a beam.
Stirrups
Which of the following is not a
consideration in determining the spacing
of column ties?
not more than 20
main bar diameter
Which of the following represents the
available sizes (diameter) of reinforcing
steel bars (mm).
10, 20, 28, 32
A door has a height of 2.10 meters and a
width of 1.20 meters. How many board
feet of a 2’x6’ wood is needed to construct a
door jamb?
18 board feet
26 board feet
Identify the type of specification - The
painted surface shall show no sign of
alligatoring, flaking or cracking or of
equivalent defects.
Performance
Reinforcements which absorbs the stresses
resulting from shrinkage
particularly during the curing of concrete
Temperature Bars
How are wood floor joists attached to
concrete beams?
Wood floor joists
are bolted or nailed
directly on the
concrete beam
A type of glass processed by controlled
thermal or chemical treatments to
increase its strength by putting the outer
surfaces into compression and the
interior into tension such that the glass
shatters into small granular chunks
when broken.
Tempered Glass
A pile depending on the resistance of soil or
rock beneath its foot or support
for its stability.
End Bearing Pile
Which of the following represents an
acceptable depth of a countertop (from
wall to edge)?
60 cm
The hardening of concrete which requires a
favorable temperature, time and
continuous presence of water or moisture
in concrete after pouring.
Curing
Metal pins that are used for joining two or
more members by passing a
headed shank through a pre-drilled hole in
each piece and hammering down the plain
end to form a second head.
Rivet
A classroom has an interior dimension of 7x
9 meters and a height of 3.2
meters. There are 2 doors measuring 2.10 x
0.9 meters and a window
measuring 1.2x 3.0 meters. Disregarding
any protruding beams and columns,
how many gallons of paint are needed to
coat the interior walls with 3 coats of
paint to create a smooth finish?
10 gallons
A room has a dimension of 7.5 x 11 meters. A
perimeter 600x600mm tile is
provided inside the room. How many board
feet of 50mm thick planks are
needed to finish the remainder of the floor
area?
1,550 board feet
An office space has a column to column
spacing of 8 meters and will utilize a
centralized all-air system air condition
system. If the office space is in a 5 storey
building made of reinforced concrete
which of the following may be a
reasonable and optimal floor to floor height
of the office space?
3.40 meters
What will be the minimum number of
steps for a stair with a floor to floor
height of 4.3 meters?
22 Steps
Which of the following is considered a
function of a gusset plate?
It provides a greater
surface area to
connect chords and
web members
together through
welding, bolting or
bolting
T/F
The contractor failed to perform his
payment duties to the subcontractors and
suppliers. This may result in forfeiture of his
performance bond to be able to pay his
dues.
False
A perimeter wall which bounds a
rectangular 12 x 20 meter lot has a height of
2.4 meters on all sides except for a 12-meter
frontage. How many bags of cement are
needed to install, fill and plaster both faces
of the 6-inch CHB wall using class B
mortar? (Unit volume of cement mortar for
6’’’; Mortar = 0.0008 cub. m.; Filler = 0.006
cub m.; Plaster = 0.003; Class B: 12 bags per
cubic meters)”
1498 Bags
A layer of gravel placed on undisturbed soil
to prevent the capillarity rise of
moisture to a ground slab.
Substrate
A type of beam that is only supported on
one side.
Cantilever beam
Waterproofing technique with cement no
needed expertise
Cementitious
Defect paint too wet; paint surface that
occurs when the top coat dries before the
bottom layer.
Wrinkling
A long slender column of wood, steel, or
reinforced concrete, driven or hammered
vertically into the earth to form a part of a
foundation system.
Piles
Architectural Bronze
Brass
It contains a considerable amount of water
and cement
Grout
A mixture of water, cement, and, fine
aggregates such as sand.
Mortar
Process of Joining Materials through
Coalescence
Welding
The concrete curing time takes about _____
to be fully cured.
28 days
Hanging out in the sun or baking in a kiln
with plastic
Brick
Made up of small particles to coarse
Medium Density
Board
A chalk-based board with paper on the
sides
Gypsum Fiberboard
or Particle Board
Stronger than ceramic
Porcelain, Vitrified,
Homogenous
Glass Without heat
Annealed Glass
Glass With heat or chemical
Tempered
Laminated
Annealed Float
Glass
Sand and water pressured matte finish
Abraded honed
sandblasted Glass
Sandblasted Glass also called
Frosted Glass
It is the structural member that supports
the transverse load which usually rests on
supports at its end
Beam
A beam having a single span supported at
its end
Simple Beam
It is a beam that rests on more than 2
supports.
Continuous Beam
A beam with 2 span
Semi-continuous
Beam
Movable Loads imposed on the floor such
as people, furniture, and the like
Live Load
Static Load such as the weight of the
construction materials that generally carry
the live load
Dead Load
Those parts of the floor system placed on
the girder of the beams where the
floorboards are fastened.
Floor Joist
A short traverse joist that supports the end
of the cut-off joist at a stairwell hole.
Header of Trimmer
A structural wood That supports and
attaches the wood floor joist to the beam.
Corbel
Braces are fixed between floor joists to keep
them in place.
Bridging
It is a steel reinforcing bar manufactured
with surface deformations to provide a
locking anchorage with the surrounding
concrete.
Deformed Bars
A steel bar having ribs to provide greater
bonding strength when used as a
reinforcing bar in reinforced concrete.
Rebars
A reinforcement device to resist shear and
diagonal tension stresses in beam
Stirrups
Length of steel bars
20’, 25’, 30’, 35’, 40’
Concrete is an artificial stone made out of
_______
Cement, sand,
gravel, water
The materials over 9 mm in diameter
Course Aggregate
The materials smaller than 9 mm in
diameter
Fine Aggregate
It is an inert granular material such as sand,
round or crushed gravel, etc.
Aggregate
It is the hardening of concrete which
requires time, favorable temperature, and
continuous presence of water or moisture
in concrete after pouring.
Curing
An excavating machine for cutting
trenches. a boom-mounted bucket moves
toward the machine, cutting the ground
like hoe, then the machines turn away from
the cut to permit the operator to dump the
spoil.
Backhoe
A container of known volume used to
measure and mixed the constituents of a
batch of concrete, plaster or mortar, to
ensure proper proportions
Batch Box
Soil is replaced in an area that has been
excavated previously.
Backfill
A material other than WATER, AGGREGATE,
LIME or CEMENT used as an INGREDIENT
of CONCRETE or mortar, and added to the
batch immediately before or during its
mixture
Admixture
It refers to the soil or rock directly beneath
the footing
Foundation Bed
The main reinforcements are placed at a
right angle perpendicular to the wall
uniformly spaced with each other and
longitudinal reinforcement parallel with the
wall.
Wall Footing
Voids left in the concrete owing to the
failure of the mortar to fill effectively the
space among coarse aggregate particles
Honeycomb
A piece of concrete that holds or supports
steel reinforcement in its proper position.
Space
It has reinforcement consisting of vertical
or longitudinal bars held in position by
lateral ties
Tied Column
A deformed bar used as tie to hold vertical
reinforcements of columns in place.
Tie Bars or Lateral
Bars
A short reinforcing bars of steel that extend
approximately equally into two abutting
pieces of concrete to increase the strength
of the joints.
Dowel
Size of wire to attach or connect steel
reinforcement
16 GI Wire
To connect two similar members, usually in
a straight line by fastening lapped ends
using mechanical end connectors.
Splice
The thickness of galvanized iron (GI) roofing
is measured in terms of __________
Gauge
The standard commercial width of
corrugated gi sheet is _____
(32”) 2.00 M / 6.6’
The sheet becomes thicker as the gauge
number increases. (TRUE/FALSE)
FALSE - sheet
becomes thinner
The standard length of a corrugated GI
sheet ranges from _______
(5’ to 12’) 1.50 to 3.60
M
Plain GI sheet commercial standard size is
(36” x 8’) 90 x 2.40 M
A type of corrugated GI roofing sheet that is
either 1 ½ or 2 ½ corrugations.
Side Lapping
