PREBOARD PART 1

A column feature projecting from a corner of a building.

• Canton

• Engaged Column

• Pier

• Pilaster

• Quoin

The failure of retaining walls where the top portion of the wall slides first.

• Drifting

• Sliding

• Shearing

• Overturning

• Undermining

A cantilever steel beam requires what kind of connection?

• AISC Type 1

• AISC Type 2

• AISC Type 3

• AISC Type 4

• AISC Type 5

This kind of admixture is added to a concrete mix to act as “microreinforcing”.  Its most common use is to reduce plastic shrinkage cracking that sometimes occurs during curing of slabs.  GFRC, which is used for cladding panels, also makes use of this admixture.

• Air-entraining admixture

• Fly ash

• Fibrous admixture

• Extended set-control admixture

• Superplasticizer

Metal decking that serves as permanent formwork for a reinforced concrete deck.

• Cellular Deck

• Composite Deck

• Form Deck

• Roof Deck

• Steel Deck

A low or partial story between two main stories of a building, especially one that projects as a balcony and forms a composition with the story beneath it.

• Blindstory

• Piano Nobile

• Half Story

• Loft

• Mezzanine

The visible rings in a cross section of a tree.

• Heartwood

• Sapwood

• Springwood

• Summerwood

• Cambium

A plate structure composed of thin, deep elements joined rigidly along their boundaries and forming sharp angles to brace each other against lateral buckling.

• Continuous plate

• Folded plate

• Isostatic plate

• Lamella roof

• Space frame

Which among the masonry wall types connects to a structural frame such as wood or metal stud walls?

• Masonry Veneer

• Grouted Masonry

• Cavity wall masonty

• Hollow unit masonry

• Solid Masonry

A brick laid on its long edge, with its end exposed in the face of the wall.

• Header

• Stretcher

• Soldier

• Rowlock

• Sailor