Heavy Construction

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Substructure

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Foundation

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Foundation wall

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Continuous

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Grade beam

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Spread

Question 7

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

Answer 7

1

Question 8

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

Answer 8

50

Question 9

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

Answer 9

30

Question 10

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

Answer 10

2

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Vertical

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Transverse

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Trestle bent

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Stringers

Question 15

What part of the flooring system protects the deck?

Answer 15

Tread

Question 16

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

Answer 16

45°

Question 17

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

Answer 17

True

Question 18

Which of the following situation does not require shoring?

Answer 18

When sloping is considered adequate

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Interlocking sheetpiling and soldier piles

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Soldier

Question 21

What type of pile is watertight?

Answer 21

Interlocking sheet

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Timber bearing

Question 23

What type of pile is usually H pile?

Answer 23

Steel bearing

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Concrete

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Hydraulic

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Pneumatic single action

Question 27

What type of pile driving hammer is most often used?

Answer 27

Diesel

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Cap

Question 29

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

Answer 29

Rig operator and signalman

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Signalman

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Friction

Question 32

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

Answer 32

End bearing

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Steel sheet pile

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Pull the pile

Question 35

Which condition does not cause bouncing?

Answer 35

Crooked pile

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Substratum fraction

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Hammering

Question 38

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

Answer 38

2-3 feet

Question 39

Jetting equipment includes all of these except which one?

Answer 39

Hydraulic pump

Question 40

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

Answer 40

True

Question 41

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

Answer 41

True

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Hoisting engineer

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Type and length of the pile

Question 44

Waterfront structures are divided into what total number of categories?

Answer 44

3

Question 45

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

Answer 45

False, groin

Question 46

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

Answer 46

Mole

Question 47

Bulkheads are not constructed to fall Into which classification?

Answer 47

Groin

Question 48

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

Answer 48

Tilt up

Question 49

What publication contains drawings for advanced paste piers?

Answer 49

NAVFAC P-437, VOL 1

Question 50

What part of a pier is located between pile bents?

Answer 50

Bay

Question 51

Which attachments prevent Timbers from moving laterally?

Answer 51

driftpins