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CET - Exam 1 questions well answered to pass division 01 - correct answer ✔✔General Requirements division 02 - correct answer ✔✔Existing Conditions division 03 - correct answer ✔✔concrete division 04 - correct answer ✔✔Masonry division 05 - correct answer ✔✔metals division 06 - correct answer ✔✔Wood, Plastics, and Composites division 07 - correct answer ✔✔Thermal and Moisture Protection division 08 - correct answer ✔✔openings division 09 - correct answer ✔✔finishes three main R's - correct answer ✔✔Reduce resource consumption, Reuse resources, Recycle resources for reuse what does (LEED) stand for? - correct answer ✔✔Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design what are the three E's? - correct answer ✔✔Economic, Environment, Equity a drawing that represents a view looking down on an object. - correct answer ✔✔plan view the finished exterior appearance of a given side of a house - correct answer ✔✔elevation view A drawing view created from a cutting plane passed through an object or building to show internal structure or components. - correct answer ✔✔section view two main soil classes - correct answer ✔✔course, fine three main soil types - correct answer ✔✔gravel, sand, soil what does ASTM stand for? - correct answer ✔✔American Society for Testing and Materials The allowable _____________ of a soil is the maximum unit pressure a foundation is permitted to impose vertically or laterally on the soil mass. - correct answer ✔✔bearing capacity The _____________ is the level beneath which the soil is saturated with groundwater. - correct answer ✔✔water table Imaginary lines joining points of equal elevation above a benchmark - correct answer ✔✔Contour lines ___________Is the angular elevation of the sun above the horizon. - correct answer ✔✔altitude ____________Is the angle of horizontal deviation, measured clockwise, of a bearing from a standard south direction. - correct answer ✔✔azimuth two main types of drainage - correct answer ✔✔surface, subsurface Shallow depressions formed by tow slopes intersecting - correct answer ✔✔swales Principal members of a truss extending from end to end and connected by web members. - correct answer ✔✔top and bottom cord Integral system of members connecting the upper and lower chords of a truss. - correct answer ✔✔web A rigid floor structure, acting as a flat, deep beam, transfers lateral loads to vertical shear walls, braced frames, or rigid frames. - correct answer ✔✔horizontal diaphragm A steel or reinforced concrete frame with rigid joints capable of resisting changes in angular relationships - correct answer ✔✔Rigid frame A wood, concrete, or masonry wall capable of resisting changes in shape and transferring lateral loads to the ground foundation - correct answer ✔✔shear wall A timber or steel frame braced with diagonal members - correct answer ✔✔braced frame its primary function is to support and anchor the superstructure above and transmit its loads safely into the earth - correct answer ✔✔foundation below grade - correct answer ✔✔substructure Movement of structure can occur over long period of time - correct answer ✔✔settlement types of foundation systems - shallow - correct answer ✔✔Basements, Crawl Spaces, Slab On grade, Grade Beam, Footing types of foundation systems - deep - correct answer ✔✔Caissons, Pier, Pile ________ or spread foundations (when soil is stable) are placed directly below the lowest part of a substructure and transfer building loads directly to the supporting soil by vertical pressure. - correct answer ✔✔shallow ______ foundations are employed when the soil underlying a foundation is unstable or of inadequate bearing capacity. They extend down through unsuitable soil to transfer building loads to a more appropriate bearing stratum - correct answer ✔✔deep Rebuilding or strengthening/ repairing/ extending the foundation of an existing building - correct answer ✔✔underpinning refers to the process of lowering a water table - correct answer ✔✔dewatering spread footing primary types - correct answer ✔✔Strip Footings (continuous), Isolated footings other type of spread footings - correct answer ✔✔Stepped, Combined, Cantilever, Mat or Raft, Floating concrete slabs must be _________. - correct answer ✔✔8" minimum thickness 8x8x16 - correct answer ✔✔nominal size of a CMU wood that has been coated or impregnated with chemicals to improve its resistance to decay, insect infestation, or fire - correct answer ✔✔treated wood Anything set in concrete - correct answer ✔✔embedded overlapping of rebar - correct answer ✔✔lap splicing pour that is made up of a concrete slab with thicker areas under load bearing walls and all perimeter edges to take the place of footers. - correct answer ✔✔monolithic pour deep foundation materials - correct answer ✔✔Treated Timber, Steel, Cast in Place, Precast Constructed of two materials, such as a timber or steel pile having a concrete upper section to prevent water erosion. Or a concrete filled pipe - correct answer ✔✔composite piles Cast-in-place, plain or reinforced concrete piers formed by boring with a large auger or excavating by hand a shaft in the earth - correct answer ✔✔caissons is reinforced by pretensioning or posttensioning high-strength steel tendons within their elastic limit to actively resist a service load - correct answer ✔✔prestressed concrete formerly called an I-beam - correct answer ✔✔S-beam wide flange beam - correct answer ✔✔W-beam shaped like a "C" - correct answer ✔✔C-beam A hollow structural steel shape of square, rectangular, or circular cross section. It is designated by the prefix TS followed by the side dimensions or diameter and the wall thickness. Size designation is based on ACTUAL dimensions. - correct answer ✔✔structural tubing a projecting ridge, rim, collar or ring on an object such as a column, beam, pipe and so on that provides additional strength or stiffness or additional surface area for the attachment of, or to, another object. - correct answer ✔✔flange middle structural part of an I-beam - correct answer ✔✔web different construction connections - correct answer ✔✔welded, bolted A method of framing wood stud walls in which the studs are one story in height and the floor joists bear on the top plates of the wall below. - correct answer ✔✔platform framing A method of framing in which the wall studs rest directly on the sill plate and each floor "hangs" from the studs - correct answer ✔✔balloon framing