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Construction Design Principles - Week 5

Authored by Tom Robinson

Architecture

12th Grade

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Construction Design Principles - Week 5
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

An investigation to acquire information about a piece of ground undertaken by reviewing existing records from the office, is known as what type of site investigation?

Geotechnical investigation

Walk-over survey

Desk study

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Visiting a site to enable the surveyor to match the information from the desk study to what they see in the plot (physically visiting the site), is known as what type of site investigation?

Geotechnical investigation

Walk-over survey

Desk Study

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The substructure refers to everything above the ground

True

False

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Any ground that has been artificially made from material placed from previous works, for example layers of stone compacted and laid to form a level surface and is most likely to be contaminated. This type of soil is known as what?

Organic soil

Fill/Made Ground

Non-Cohesive Soil

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Generally the strongest material with good bearing capacity. Some rocks will behave more like weak soils especially when the moisture content is high. This type of soil is known as what?

Cohesive Soil

Coarse Grained Soil

Rock

6.

MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION

45 sec • 1 pt

Static loads are assumed to be constant in nature and consist of which two types of loads?

Dead loads

Seismic loads

Live loads

Dynamic Loads

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This type of force is as a result of sudden movements in the earth’s crust. They are multidirectional in nature and propagated in the form of waves. These cause the earth’s surface and any buildings resting on it to vibrate because of the tendency of a building’s mass to remain at rest.

Wind loads

Live loads

Seismic Forces

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