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Heavy Construction Flashcards

1
Q

The lower part of a bridge is known by what term?

A

Substructure

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2
Q

What part of a building is located below the surface of the ground?

A

Foundation

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3
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What part of the building rises from the foundation to a location above the ground?

A

Foundation wall

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4
Q

What type of foundation is most often used for small buildings?

A

Continuous

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5
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What type of foundation is located at grade level around the entire perimeter of the building?

A

Grade beam

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6
Q

What type of foundation is located under isolated columns or at intervals along a wall?

A

Spread

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7
Q

What total number of rows of posts or piles does a bent contain?

A

1

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8
Q

A timber pile bent can support a span of how many feet?

A

50

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9
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A trestle bent can support a combined span length of what maximum length, in feet?

A

30

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10
Q

A pile bent pier Is composed of what minimum number of pile bents?

A

2

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11
Q

A trestle bet pier is specifically designed to carry what type of loads?

A

Vertical

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12
Q

What type of bracing provide stability at right angles to the centerline of the super structure of a bridge?

A

Transverse

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13
Q

Which structure is not a part of the superstructure of a bridge?

A

Trestle bent

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14
Q

What members of the superstructure of a bridge are the main load carrying members?

A

Stringers

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15
Q

What part of the flooring system protects the deck?

A

Tread

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16
Q

For excavations an average soil, 0SHA recommends a slope of what angle, in degrees?

A

45°

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17
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Before beginning an excavation, you must have a digging permit.

A

True

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18
Q

Which of the following situation does not require shoring?

A

When sloping is considered adequate

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19
Q

What two methods are most often used to shore high vertical excavation banks?

A

Interlocking sheetpiling and soldier piles

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20
Q

What type of pile is H shaped and is driven into the ground with a pile driver?

A

Soldier

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21
Q

What type of pile is watertight?

A

Interlocking sheet

22
Q

What type of pile is usually a straight tree trunk with the limbs and bark removed?

A

Timber bearing

23
Q

What type of pile is usually H pile?

A

Steel bearing

24
Q

What type of pile can be either precast or cast in place?

A

Concrete

25
Q

Which is not one of the three main types of pile driving hammers?

A

Hydraulic

26
Q

For driving heavy piles into hard or dense soil, what pile driving hammer provides the best results?

A

Pneumatic single action

27
Q

What type of pile driving hammer is most often used?

A

Diesel

28
Q

What part of a pile driving hammer protects it from damage by receiving and transmitting the blow of the hammer or ram?

A

Cap

29
Q

The pile driving crew is usually made up of people manning which positions?

A

Rig operator and signalman

30
Q

During a pile driving operation, what individual is the boss and normally the only person giving signals to the operator?

A

Signalman

31
Q

A pile supported by skin friction alone is referred to as what type of pile?

A

Friction

32
Q

A pile supported by bedrock or an extra dense layer of soil at the Tip is known as what type of pile?

A

End bearing

33
Q

What type of piling is most often used in military construction?

A

Steel sheet pile

34
Q

When a pile changes direction or becomes easier to drive, you should take what corrective action?

A

Pull the pile

35
Q

Which condition does not cause bouncing?

A

Crooked pile

36
Q

Which is not a pile supported partly by skin friction and partly by a substratum of extra debt soil at the tip?

A

Substratum fraction

37
Q

Which action is not a necessary steps for constructing a bent?

A

Hammering

38
Q

When selecting at timber pile to build a bent around, the timber pile should be long enough to leave what minimum amount of space?

A

2-3 feet

39
Q

Jetting equipment includes all of these except which one?

A

Hydraulic pump

40
Q

In the direct lift method, a crane is used to pull the pile.

A

True

41
Q

The tidal lift method is used to pull piles driven in Tidewater.

A

True

42
Q

A typical crew for bearing piles will not include which personnel?

A

Hoisting engineer

43
Q

The time in man days required to drive a pile depends on what two factors?

A

Type and length of the pile

44
Q

Waterfront structures are divided into what total number of categories?

A

3

45
Q

A mole is run out from the shoreline to check the alongshore wave action or deflect it away from the shore.

A

False, groin

46
Q

A break water that is paved on the top for use as a wharfage structure is known by what term?

A

Mole

47
Q

Bulkheads are not constructed to fall Into which classification?

A

Groin

48
Q

Which type of construction is not a type of steel construction used today?

A

Tilt up

49
Q

What publication contains drawings for advanced paste piers?

A

NAVFAC P-437, VOL 1

50
Q

What part of a pier is located between pile bents?

A

Bay

51
Q

Which attachments prevent Timbers from moving laterally?

A

driftpins

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