Section 2
High-rise apartment and office buildings with light floor loads are often constructed using _____.
a. one-way solid slabs
b. two-way joist slabs
c. two-way flat plate slabs
d. composite slabs
c. two-way flat plate slabs
Standard manufactured dome or square pans are either 19" × 19" or _____.
a. 24" × 24"
b. 30" × 30"
c. 36" × 36"
d. 48" × 48"
b. 30" × 30"
B-B Plyform panels are designed for reuse _____.
a. 2 to 4 times
b. 5 to 10 times
c. 16 to 20 times
d. 25 to 35 times
b. 5 to 10 times
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The ribs and slab of one-way joist slabs are cast _____.
a. continuously
b. sequentially
c. intermittently
d. monolithically
d. monolithically
Wood I-joists covered with plywood can be used for site-built _____.
a. column forms
b. wide pan forms
c. dome-pan forms
d. beam forms
b. wide pan forms
The number of basic grades in which Plyform sheets for form building are available is _____.
a. two
b. three
c. four
d. five
b. three
The most important aspects of constructing elevated slabs are _____.
a. shoring and reshoring
b. stripping and resetting forms
c. form construction and bracing
d. calculating material and labor costs
a. shoring and reshoring
Modular bridge-deck panels that have increased ability to resist the corrosive effects of weather and deicing
salts are made from _____.
a. fiber-reinforced plastic
b. air-entrained concrete
c. recycled rubber
d. polycarbonate-sheathed steel grating
a. fiber-reinforced plastic
Two-way joist slabs are commonly known as _____.
a. cross-rib slabs
b. waffle slabs
c. ribbed slabs
d. indented slabs
b. waffle slabs
Beam form bottoms made from plywood should be supported by 2 × 4 members and use plywood with a
minimum thickness of _____.
a. 3/8"
b. 1/2"
c. 3/4"
d. 1"
c. 3/4"
In hand-set multicomponent decks, joists normally _____.
a. are laid across the stringers
b. are fabricated from aluminum
c. support the stringers
d. are spaced a minimum of 10' apart
a. are laid across the stringers
Mudsills are used to support shores _____.
a. if the ground is not frozen
b. beneath each floor of the building
c. if forms are to be left in place
d. when a slab-on-grade has not been placed and cured
d. when a slab-on-grade has not been placed and cured
Final adjustment of a deck slab's elevation is done using _____.
a. hanger clamps
b. wedges
c. haunches
d. leveling screws
c. haunches
In a composite slab, the slab form is _____.
a. corrugated steel
b. reinforced HDO plywood
c. steel pans with overlapped flanges
d. 1/4" steel plate
a. corrugated steel
Flat-slab formwork is more costly to build because of the _____.
a. need for special shoring
b. amount of material required
c. complex reinforcement that must be built
d. drop panels required at each column
d. drop panels required at each column
To simplify and speed up form stripping, hand-set panelized deck systems use _____.
a. retractable shores
b. toggle heads
c. proprietary drop-heads
d. form lifters
c. proprietary drop-heads
A widely used post-type adjustable wood shore is elevated to the desired final height using a _____.
a. come-along
b. pry bar
c. removable jack wrench
d. screw jack
c. removable jack wrench
Support angles for bridge decks should not be welded to the flanges of beams that _____.
a. have a web less than 8" deep
b. are in tension
c. rest on a bridge center pier
d. are in compression
b. are in tension
The high-strength steel cables used in posttensioned concrete construction are called _____.
a. stringers
b. bands
c. tendons
d. stays
c. tendons
A steel deck surface in contact with concrete should be _____.
a. polished
b. heat-treated
c. phosphatized
d. aluminized
c. phosphatized
An elevated material-staging platform is supported by two or more beams called _____.
a. counterweights
b. shoring
c. truss girders
d. outriggers
d. outriggers
Heavy-duty versions of steel and aluminum post shores can support a weight of up to _____.
a. 11,000 pounds
b. 8,500 pounds
c. 6,200 pounds
d. 5,000 pounds
a. 11,000 pounds
The distinction between a tunnel and a culvert is _____.
a. shape
b. length
c. the size of the passage
d. the construction method
c. the size of the passage