ASCE
ASCE Publishes this every four years, evaluating the condition of America's infrastructure
Infrastructure Report Card
Built across the Colorado River, this massive 1930s arch-gravity dam created Lake Mead
Hoover Dam
This internal force acts parallel to the cross-section of a structural member
Shear force
This term describes a soil or rock layer that doesn't allow water to pass through it easily
Impervious
What standard scale, running from 0 to 14, measures how acidic or basic a substance is?
pH scale
ASCE sponsors this national collegiate competition where students design and race vessels made out of a certain civil engineering material
Concrete Canoe
This measure, abbreviated PE, is the professional licensure required for an engineer to seal and sign engineering drawings
Professional Engineer
A structural member subjected primarily to axial compressive loads
Column
This graph plots the percentage of soil passing through a series of sieves against particle size, and is used to determine whether a soil is well-graded, poorly-graded, or gap-graded.
Particle Distribution Curve
This French tower, built in 1889 as the entrance arch for the World's Fair, is nicknamed the "Iron Lady"
Eiffel Tower
Where was ASCE established?
New York City
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is a classic example of this specific bridge design type
Suspension Bridge
This law states that stress is directly proportional to strain within the elastic limit
Hooke's Law
This fundamental soil classification property measures the ratio of the volume of voids to the total volume of a soil sample.
Porosity
In geometry, this 7-sided polygon has internal angles that sum to 900 degrees
Heptagon
ASCE publishes this widely cited standard for minimum design loads on buildings and other structures.
ASCE 7
Completed in 1914, this 48-mile artificial waterway connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Panama Canal
On a building setback, a column lands on the beam below it, which carries the vertical loads horizontally to the next column, what is this beam called?
Transfer girder
Karl Terzaghi, considered the father of modern soil mechanics, defined effective stress as total stress minus this specific fluid pressure.
Pore Water Pressure
Moving only diagonally along a single color for the entire game, this chess piece begins positioned between a knight and a royal
Bishop
What is the first and highest priority Principle of the ASCE Code of Ethics?
To hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public
In project management, this sequence of scheduled tasks determines the minimum total duration required to complete a project
Critical Path
In a high rise building's lateral system, this member connects the core to exterior columns, reducing moment in the columns and overall building drifts, what is this member called
Outrigger
These limits define the moisture content boundaries between the solid, semi-solid, plastic, and liquid states of fine-grained soil.
Atterberg Limits
What is the most consumed manufactured beverage in the world
Tea