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Allowable Stress design is also called as _________________. |
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Working Stress design |
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Shear Stress design |
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Dead load is defined as the weight of materials of construction incorporated into the building, including but not limited to walls, floors, roofs, ceilings, stairways, built-in partitions, finishes, cladding and other similarly incorporated architectural and structural items, and the weight of fixed service equipment, such as cranes, plumbing stacks and risers, electrical feeders, heating, ventilating. |
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True |
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False |
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___________________ is defined as a horizontal or sloped system acting to transmit lateral forces to the vertical-resisting elements. |
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Diaphragm |
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Exterior Balcony |
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___________________ is the product of a nominal load and a load factor. |
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Factored load |
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Stress load |
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| 5. |
What does LRFD stand for? |
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Load and Resistance for Factor Design |
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Lumber and Resistance for Factor Design |
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Load Resistance for Factor Development |
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None of the above |
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| 6. |
A method of proportioning structural members, such that elastically computed stresses produced in the members by nominal loads do not exceed specified allowable stresses is called simple beam design. |
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True |
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False |
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| 7. |
Impact load is known as the load resulting from moving machinery, elevators, crane ways, vehicles and other similar forces and kinetic loads, pressure and possible surcharge from fixed or moving loads. |
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True |
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False |
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__________________ is a condition beyond which a structure or member becomes unfit for service and is judged to be no longer useful for its intended function (serviceability limit state) or to be unsafe (strength limit state). |
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Limit state |
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Factored state |
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Live loads are those loads produced by the use and occupancy of the building or other structure and do not include construction or environmental loads such as wind load, snow load, rain load, earthquake load, flood load or dead load. |
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True |
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False |
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__________________ is a method of proportioning structural members and their connections using load and resistance factors such that no applicable limit state is reached when the structure is subjected to appropriate load combinations. |
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Load and Resistance Factor Design |
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Allowable State Design |
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| 11. |
What does ASTM stand for? |
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American Society for Testing and Materials |
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American Society for Transportation and Materials |
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American Standard for Testing and Materials |
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None of the above |
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| 12. |
Resistance factor is a factor that accounts for deviations of the actual load from the nominal load, for uncertainties in the analysis that transforms the load into a load effect, and for the probability that more than one extreme load will occur simultaneously. |
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True |
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False |
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Occupancy category is defined as the category that is used to determine structural requirements based on occupancy. |
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True |
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False |
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| 14. |
What does FIRM stand for? |
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Flood Insurance Rate Map |
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Flood Insurance Rate Management |
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Factored Insurance Rate Map |
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None of the above |
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___________________ is the capacity of a structure or member to resist the effects of loads, as determined by computations using specified material strengths and dimensions and equations derived from accepted principles of structural mechanics or by field tests or laboratory tests of scaled models, allowing for modeling effects and differences between laboratory and field conditions. |
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Nominal Strength |
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Flexural Strength |
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| 16. |
Design Strength is the product of the nominal strength and a resistance factor ( or strength reduction factor). |
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True |
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False |
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| 17. |
Vehicle Barrier System is a system of building components near open sides of a garage floor or ramp or building walls that act as restraints for vehicles. |
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True |
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False |
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| 18. |
What does ICC stand for? |
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International Code Council |
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International Concrete Council |
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International Corporate Council |
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None of the above |
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| 19. |
In light-frame construction, a location where shear is transferred into or out of the diaphragm sheathing is called Diaphragm boundary. |
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True |
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False |
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| 20. |
Forces and deformations produced in structural members by the applied loads are called ____________________. |
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Load effects |
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Physical effects |
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