SITE

Question 1

What is the assumed angle of repose of soil?

Answer 1

30 degrees

Question 2

What is the angle at which snow is assumed to shed

Answer 2

60 degrees

Question 3

When is a holding pond required

Answer 3

When the capacity of a sewer system is exceeded

Question 4

What is the impact of universal accessibility while designing a site ?

Answer 4

-Barrier free path from and to sidewalk, 1:10, 1:15
-B.F.P until the sidewalk
-designated parking spots
-avoid irregularities in the ground
-use of texture + colors to highlight paths (visually impaired)

Question 5

Factors that affect a soils capacity to bear weight ?

Answer 5

-structure of the soil
-resistance to sheer forces
-permeability and amount of contained water
-heterogeneous or homogeneous
-density
-composition of stratification

Question 6

-granular soils have amount of vois spaces

Answer 6

Low amount

Question 7

Buckling of a column is is do to ?

Answer 7

Eccentric loads, direct stress on axial load exceeds compressive strength capacity of column : tensile stresses develop

Question 8

Answer 8

Radius of gyration - has a max value @ the furthest point from the center

Question 9

What is this and why isn’t it a truss

Answer 9

A vierendeel truss
-members are not subject to axial bending forces

Question 10

What is this?

Answer 10

A diagrid - free of interior columns