QUIZ 6

What is the term for a wall that is part of the enclosure of the building but that is intended to have no load-bearing capacity and is designed primarily to protect the building from rain, snow, cold and heat?

Curtain Wall

The intrinsic weight of a structure or vehicle, excluding the weight of passengers or goods.

Dead Load

What is the term for the forces incurred due to the weight of all the materials used in the construction of a building?

Dead Loads

Which types of loads are a constant over the life of the structure, and they have a big impact on the long-term deflection or creep of structural members?

Dead Loads

Which types of loads are considered to be "gravity loads?"

Dead Loads, Live Loads

What is the term for changes in the shape or size of an object caused by building loads?

Deformations

A load on a structural system that is not constant, such as a moving live load or wind load.

Dynamic Load

Which type of load can exert suction or uplift to the roof of a building?

Dynamic Loads (Wind Loads)

The wind load on a building results in what type of reaction at the base of the building? `

Base Shear

What is the purpose of shock absorbers on a building?

To absorb tremors of earthquakes

What is the term for interactions that, when unopposed, will change the motion of an object?

Forces

What is the term for wind pressure that is caused as the wind wraps around a building and exerts a pulling force on the building as the wind passes by and away from the building?

Leeward Pressure

Any temporary or transient forces that act on a building or structural element. Typically, they include people, furniture, vehicles, and almost everything else that can be moved throughout a building

Live Load

A building element that bears the weight of the building above said element, resting upon it by conducting its weight to a foundation structure. The materials most often used to construct load-bearing elements in large buildings are steel, concrete, block, or brick.

Load Bearing

A building element that does not bear the weight of the building above said element.

Non Load Bearing

Another term for the live load on a structure resulting from the weight of furniture and people.

Occupancy Load

A type of wall that typically does not support any weight from the building above it.

Partition Wall

What is the term for the inertial forces acting on a building due to earthquake-induced ground motions?

Seismic loads

What is the term for concrete walls, with steel reinforcements, that are intended to reduce rocking movements?

Shear walls (Cross- Bracing)

What is one type of shear resisting element found on a building?

Shock Absorbers, Cross-Bracing

Forces, deformations, or accelerations applied to a structure or its components.

Structural Loads

What is the term for wind pressure caused by wind hitting directly on a building?

Wind Loads, Windward Pressure

Two types of live loads.

a. People b. Furniture

Two types of dead loads.

a. Stairs b. Floors

Two types of dynamic loads.

a. Wind loads b. Seismic (earthquake)