Building Framing Systems

A skeletal structure of parts, fitted and joined together in order to support, define or close a system of construction utilizing a framework of columns and beams tp transmit building loads down to the foundation.

• Framework

• Formwork

• Molder

• Construction Skeleton

When metal forms the frame as in skyscrapers, the technique is known as ___

• Post and Lintel Construction

• Steel-Cage Construction

• Balloon Frame Construction

• Metal Pole Construction

It is a timber frame construction where the studs run continuously from the sole plate to the rafter plate.

• Post and Lintel Construction

• Platform Framing

• Balloon Frame Construction

• A- Frame Construction

The most common wood framing method in which a platform is constructed at each floor and the studs for the next floor are erected on this platform usually with an intervening soleplate. Also called Western Framing

• Wood Grid Construction

• Platform Framing

• Balloon Frame Construction

• A- Frame Construction

This is an "Arched Wall Steel" type of construction where long steel pieces are joined together to form the supporting framework of the building. It is affectionately referred to as ____

• Space Frame Construction

• Wattle and Daub

• Quonset Huts

• A- Frame Construction

Answer explanation

A Quonset hut a lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated galvanized steel having a semi cylindrical cross-section. The design was developed during World War I & II. The name comes from the site of their first deployment at Quonset Point at the Rhode Island.

The image shows what type of construction?

• Steel Rigid Frame Construction

• Straight Wall Steel Construction

• Post and Beam Construction

• Braced Frame Construction

A rigid frame of two columns and a beam defining a single bay; also called "Single Bay Frame"

• Simple Frame

• Truss Metal Frame

• Multi-bay Frame

• Portal Frame

In this type of steel construction, the walls or framing is rigid and fixed. It is the frame that supports the building.

• Straight Wall Steel Construction

• Space Frame Construction

• Thin Shell Construction

• Diagrid Construction

A rigid, lightweight, truss-like structure constructed from interlocking struts in a geometric pattern. Different types are Flat Covers, Barrel Vaults and Spherical Domes

• Braced Frame Construction

• Space Frame Construction

• Thin Shell Construction

• Diagrid Construction

A lightweight construction where a thin, curved plate structure shaped to transmit applied forces by compressive, tensile and shear stresses that act in plane of surface.

• Organic Shapes Construction

• Space Frame Construction

• Thin Shell Construction

• Diagrid Construction

Answer explanation

Usually constructed of concreted reinforced with steel mesh. Also called PLATE AND SHELL STRUCTURE