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Construction Design
100
A curved structure for spanning an opening, designed to support a vertical load primarily by axial compression.
What is arch?
100
Horizontal structural members used to carry the floor and ceiling loads.
What is floor joists?
100
Concrete that is poured in its final location.
What is cast in place concrete?
100
The study of the design, development, and production of air and spacecraft.
What is aerospace engineering?
100
A device used to measure the amount of water that goes through the water service.
What is a water meter?
200
The edge or contour of a shape.
What is a line?
200
A covering placed over exterior studs or rafters that serve as a base below the exterior finish materials.
What is sheathing?
200
An exterior building wall that is supported entirely by the frame of the building, rather than being self-supporting or load bearing made up of glass many times.
What is a curtain wall?
200
The study of the physical world to manipulate the interactions of individual atoms and molecules.
What is chemical engineering?
200
the lowest load-bearing part of a building, typically below ground level.
What is a foundation?
300
The feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface, substance, or fabric.
What is texture?
300
Material used to restrict the flow of heat, cold, or sound from one surface to another.
What is insulation?
300
A floor that is above the level of the ground.
What is a elevated floor?
300
Specialize in road, bridge, buildings and water supply system design and construction
What is a civil engineer?
300
is most commonly the depth to which the groundwater in soil is expected to freeze.
What is frost line?
400
The relative lightness or darkness of a color.
What is value?
400
The vertical framing member in frame wall construction.
What is a stud?
400
Brickwork, concrete block work, and stonework.
What is masonry?
400
Specialize in power supply and generation.
What is a electrical engineer?
400
A part of the foundation that helps support the foundation wall so that the structure does not settle.
What is the footing?
500
Solid walls that provide support for each other and for the roof of a structure.
What is bearing walls?
500
An assembly of structural members joined to form a rigid framework, usually connected to form triangles.
What is a truss?
500
A grid of steel wires or bars welded together at all points of intersection to form an open mat to be used in concrete floors instead of rebar
What is welded wire fabric?
500
The study of motion, energy and force.
What is a mechanical engineer?
500
Architectural drawings of a building's exterior.
What are elevation drawings?
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