Structural
A long, usually straight, structural element that supports a load by spanning a distance.
What is a beam?
It is a device that produces hot water.
What is a boiler?
The unit used to measure Electric Current.
What is the Ampere (Amp)?
This rhyming device sucks up water to prevent basement flooding.
What is a Sump Pump?
The term for the temperature to which air must be cooled to become saturated with water.
What is the dew point?
The amount of movement or change in shape that a structural element endures when loaded.
What is deflection?
The non-abbreviated form of HVAC
What is Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning?
The typical color for ground wires.
What is green?
The flow rate of water through a plumbing system is often measured in this, abbreviated GPM.
What are Gallons Per Minute?
It is the unit of measurement for color temperature. It is also a unit of measurement for heat temperature.
What is Kelvin?
The action of a compressed column when it's load limit is exceeded, resulting in a sudden instability (bending).
What is buckling?
HVAC air handlers with the abbreviation "RTU" are typically located here on a building.
What is the roof?
When feeding electrical loads, if voltage is increased, this happens to the amperage.
What is decrease?
An underground chamber made of concrete, fiberglass, or plastic through which domestic wastewater flows for basic sewage collection.
What is a Septic Tank?
Building insulation is rated by R-value, R standing for this to heat flow.
What is Resistance?
An arrangement of beams and columns that resists lateral load by transferring bending through their joints. They do not contain diagonal braces.
What is a moment frame?
A device which senses the temperature and performs actions to maintain that temperature near a desired setpoint.
What is a thermostat?
The standard electrical frequency in the US.
What is 60Hz?
A device that is part of the pipe under your sink designed to prevent unwanted flow of liquid or gas.
What is a P-trap?
The non-abbreviated form of LED.
What is Light Emitting Diode?
The computational method used to analyze complex structures. It's used in most structural analysis program.
What is the Finite Element Method (FEA)?
The third Revit system type for airducts, along with Supply, Return, and ...
What is Exhaust?
The load at which Receptacle Outlets should be calculated, per the National Electrical Code (NEC).
What is 180VA?
What is 110° F?
The inventor of Calculus, and thus the father of modern science and engineering.
Who was Sir Isaac Newton?
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Who was Gottfried Leibniz?