Structural Conceptualization, Bldg Material, utilities & methods of construction

Class AA concrete (4000 psi)

1 : 1 1/2 :3

Class B concrete (2500 psi)

1 : 2 1/2 :5

What is the minimum thickness of plywood form for column & beams

1/2 inch

In Circuiting guidelines, what is the minimum convenience outlet for a 15 ampere circuit?

9 Outlets

American society for testing & material

ASTM

A composition of two or more metals fuse together usually to a desire property.

Alloy

Electrical cable consisting two or more insulated conductors protected by a flexible wound metal wrapping. also called BX cable.

Armored cable

The phenomenon of slow growth of strain under a steady tensile stress is called.

Creeping

It is a type of permissible traps which has a large diameter (around 0.16m) it is used for fixtures that discharge large amount of water (bathtub,shower or floor drains.

Drum trap

A circuit breaker that senses currents caused by faults and instantaneous shuts off power before damage or injury can occur.

Ground fault interrupter

In Escalator this stops the escalator if a foreign object becomes wedge at the guard.

Handrail guard switches

Cause by calcium & magnesium deposit

Hardness

This kind of gas which is produce inside septic tank is colorless gas with offensive odor.

Hydrogen Sulfide

A amount of heat which is absorbed or evolved in charging the state of the substance without changing temperature.

Latent heat

All part of a circuit is connected end to end

Series

The minimum intensity that is capable of evoking an auditory sensation in the ear.

Threshold of Audibility

Honey comb in concrete can be limited by the used of ?

Vibrator

A device installed in piping to prevent the reverse flow of storm on sewage into the drainage system at their branches.

Back water valve

Piles that are place at an inclination to resist forces that are not critical

Batter piles

A bank of earth place again one or more exterior wall of building which serves as a protection against extremes in temperature is called?

Bem

A paint defect where there is discoloration of the coat caused by the soluble color in underlying surface.

Bleeding

A type of mortise and tenon wood construction joint where the tongue and groove meet halfway making the connection clean of joints traces.

Blind and stub

These are metals or concrete rigid post that can be arrange in a line to closed off a road or path to vehicles above a certain width and to separate traffic from the pedestrian.

Bollards

Soil materials suitable as fill or sub-grade selected laboratory approved gravel disintegrated granite,sand,shale,cinders or other similar materials with not more than 35% fraction passing the 2000 sieve.

Borrow fill

One of the most modern bridges, this consist of a continuous strong beam or girder with one or more pillars or tower in the middle.

Cable stayed bridge

A beam that projects beyond one or both its support

Cantiliver

It is a hole in the ground with stones and bricks laid in such manner as to allow raw contaminated sewage to leach into the under surface of the ground

Cesspool

What do you call a valve permitting a liquid or gas to flow in one direction only?

Check Valve

These are aggregates larger than 1/4" in size which consist of crushed stones gravel or other inert material of similar characteristic used with cement is ?

Coarse aggregate

A heat exchange device in a refrigeration system; consist of a vessel or arrangement of pipes or tubing in which refrigerant vapor is liquified by removal of heat.

Condenser

The ratio of the compressive strength of a material such as concrete to the average compressive strength.

Control factor

A typical block or panel type insulating material used in flat roof or commercial or industrial buildings.

Corkboard

A metallic sleeve caulked or joined to an opening in a pipe into which a plug is screwed that can be moved for cleaning or examining the interior of the pipe.

Ferrule

A relatively inert substance added to modify the bulk strength , heat resistance , electric resistance or working properties of a resin.

Filler

A weld roughly triangular cross section between two pieces at right angles; A weld with a triangular cross section joining two surfaces that meet in an interior right angle (D.K. Ching p. 86).

Fillet Weld

A receptacle attached to a plumbing system other than a trap in which waste water or waste may be collected or retained for ultimate discharge into the plumbing system.

Fixture

A truss having parallel top and bottom chords. Generally not as efficient as pitched or bowstring trusses. Also Called parallel-chord truss.

Flat truss

I kind of switch in which a hinge copper blade is palced between two contact clips.

Knife switch

These are the fabricated homes that are created in sections and then transported to the site for construction, assembly and installation.

Knock down assembly

For Supermarket occupying the rear of the ground floor what type of AC would you recommend?

Variable Air Volume (VAV)

The tendency of cement at the bottom layers to harden due to the pressure of exerted form above when piled higher tah 12 bags height is called?

Warehouse Set

This term refers to the protective coating applied primarily for corrosion resistance to thin sheets of an alloy whose corrosion resistance has been decrease due to addition of other metals to give it strength and other characteristics is?

Alclad

The Moment of cantilever is concave

Downward

A continuous belt (chain) attached at the handrail and directly connected to the steps is known as ______?

Endless Belt

The most magneticaly permeable silvery-white metal is?

Pure Iron

An approved, completely assemble metal troughing and fitting , containing bare conductors intended for used as feeders, the conductors being suitably supported on insulator.

Raceway

a type of floor that provide an elevated gridded structural system above solid concrete slab to create a hidden void for the passage of mechanical and electrical system.

Raised floor

Concrete strengthened by having steel embedded in it is called?

Reinforce Concrete

At any section of reinforce concrete structural member, the ratio of the effective area of the reinforcement to the effective area of the concrete.

Reinforcement ratio

A system of construction for aluminum sandwich panels is called?

Sandwich construction

A test used for determining the comprehensive strength of concrete batch

Shear Test

The minimum compressive strength at the age of 28 days for class d concrete

1000 psi

In National electric code what maximum watt is the maximum load for each lighting outlet

100W

A waste pipe that does not connect directly with the drainage system, but that discharge into drainage system through an air break or gap into trap fixture receptor or interceptor.

Indirect waste

Filipino term for split knob

Poleya

What id recommended for used to connect G.I. corrugated roofing to a C-Purlins?

Tekscrew

In Elevator, It makes the buzzer alarm when the car is overloaded and the door remains open until overloading is eliminated.

Weighing device

A system of framing a building on which floor joist of each storey rest on the top plates of the storey below and the bearing walls and partitions rest on the sub-floor of each storey is know as ?

Western framing

In National electric Code, what is the minimum size of copper wire for all types of convenience outlet

12 AWG (American Wire Gauge)

Water supply requirements for hostels & boarding schools

135 liters/ head

Class A concrete (3500 psi)

1:2:4

Class C concrete (2000 psi)

1:3:5

Which of the following shall be installed to meet the basic requirements of sanitation and personal hygiene ? 1.) Sink 2.) Bathtub or shower 3.) Lavatory 4.) Basin 5.) Tub

2 & 3 (Bathtub or shower & Lavatory)

A one Unit Passenger Elevator should be kept on 24 hour service to residential condominium of not more than ?

5 storey

Inorganic soil for sustainability as sub-grade materials in terms of good drainage and bearing capacity defines as particle size as.

Above 75mm

Plaster or plywood ceiling on nailers or joist below a ventilated roof space may show staining on a ceiling. This can be prevented by ?

Adequate Insulation

An inert mineral filler used with cement and water in making concrete is?

Aggregate

It is a safety feature; faucets are mounted 2" minimum above highest possible level of wastewater to prevent any contaminated water being siphoned back in system

Air gaps

A device used to vary the volume of air passing through an air outlet, inlet or duct.

Damper

In structural design, the working load times the load factor

Design Ultimate load

The sewage treatment process that involves the used of chlorine in the form of a sodium solution to kill pathogenic bacteria?

Disinfection

The ability of a metal to undergo cold plastic deformation without breaking, particularly by pulling in cold drawing.

Ductility

This rectified alternating current which the rectifier is so connected that the reverse half of the cycle is turned around.

Full wave rectified single phase AC

Wall board or plywood maybe applied over stud, they can also be applied over CHB masonry wall by using ?

Furring

A stackable component of loose stones or boulders in a rectangular cage of galvanized mesh or welded reinforcing bars, used for road embankments, retaining walls, eroision control.

Gabion

A hard brittle, chemically inert substance produce by fusing silica together with flux and a stabilizer that cools to a grid condition without crystallization is.

Glass

The part of the foundation system which support the exterior walls of super structure and bears directly on the column is a

Grade Beam

A proprietary name for a cylindrical column which is concrete filled use as structural column to support beams or girder

Lally Column

What kind of sound absorption material are these. Wood and hardwood panels, Gypsum, Suspended ceilings, furred out plaster, rigid plastic board, windows, glazing, wood floors and platforms etc.

Panel/Membrane absorbers

The horizontal component of resistance developed by a soil mass against the horizontal movement of a vertical structure through the soil

Passive earth pressure

A type of perimeter detector used to sense movement of people, animals or other objects. they are commonly used in burglar alarms and automatically activated lighting system it does not generate or radiate energy for detection purposes. they do not detector measure heat.

Passive infrared

An inert aggregate for insulation composed of stable silicates is called?

Perlite

A subordinate vertical structure terminating in a pyramid or spire to add weight to a buttress pier.

Pinnacle

An Air supported (or air inflated) structure that derives its structural integrity from the used of internal pressurized air to inflate a pliable material(i.e. structural fabric) envelop, so that the air is the main support of the structure.

Pneumatic structure

A method of analyzing Intermediate modular building frames by assuming hinges at center of the beam spans and column heights.

Portal Method

A Box with blank cover which is inserted in one or more runs or raceways to facilitate the pulling of wires

Pull box

Wall either free standing or laterally braced, that bears against an earth or other fill surface and resist lateral and other forces from the material in contact with the side of the wall, thereby preventing the mass from sliding to a lower elevation.

Retaining wall

Stone delivered from quarries in rough and irregular shapes is called

Rubble stone

It is a type of galvanized steel pipe that is made using rotary piercing and rolling method it is often considered to be higher integrity product than welded sanitary tube.

Seamless pipe

A condition of a beam in which the concrete element in only reinforce near the tensile and the reinforcement, called tension steel, is design to resist the tension

Singly Reinforce beam

A vertical line of piping that extends one or more floors and receives the discharge of water closets, urinals and similar fixtures.

Soil Stack

It is defined as the discipline associated with control of generation, storage collection, transport or transfer, processing and disposal of waste materials in a way that best address the range of public health conservation, economics, aesthetics and other environmental consideration.

Solid waste management

The Process of decomposition

Stabilization

A brand name of sheet metal roofing includes the following

Steeltech

Stripsol brand is what type of chemical when applied to paint ?

Stripper

Also called pull elevator they are lifted by ropes, which pass over wheel attached to an electric motor above the elevator shaft. a counter weight makes more elevator more efficient by offsetting the weight of the car and occupants so that the motor doesn't have much weight. they are used for mid & high rise application.

Traction Elevator

A sanitary problem which due to inadequate ventilation of traps.

Trap seal loss

What part of drainage system is used to take excess or grey water away, ussually from sink or tub that will not contain any solid materials

Waste pipe

It may be used either for collection of water without consideration of pressure under air pressure of for storing water under air pressure or under a static head for future distribution by pneumatic or gravity means. Materials are G.I. P.V.C. reinforce concrete, stainless steel or plain steel

Water Tank

The vertical plate joining the flanges of any beam or rail, or whatever material.

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