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CLORES, JONATHAN DAVE S.

January 11, 2018

CE42FB2- CE407 ASSIGNMENT

DEFINITION OF TERMS:

1. ACCESS FLOOR SYSTEM – Is an assembly consisting of panels mounted on pedestals to provide an


under-floor space for the installation of mechanical, electrical, communication or similar systems or to
serve as an air-supply or return- air plenum.

2. AGRICULTURAL BUILDING – Is a structure designed and constructed to house farm implements, hay,
grain, poultry, livestock or other agricultural products. The structure shall not be a place of human
habitation or a place or employment where agricultural products are processed, treated or packaged,
not shall it be a place used by the public.

3. ALLOWABLE STRESS DESIGN (ASD) – Is a method of proportioning and designing structural members
such as that elastically computed stress produced in the members by nominal loads do not exceed
specified allowable stresses (also called working stress design).

4. ASSEMBLY BUILDING – Is a building or portion of a building for gathering together of 50 or more


persons for such purposes as deliberation, education, instruction, worship, entertainment, amusement,
drinking or dining, or awaiting transportation.

5. AWNING- Is an architectural projection that provides weather protection, identity, or decoration and is
wholly supported by the building to which it is attached.

6. BALCONY,EXTERIOR – Is an exterior floor system projecting from and supported by a structure w/o
additional independent supports.

7. BASE – Is the level at which the earthquake motions are considered to be impaired to the structure or
the level at w/c the structure, as dynamic vibrator, is supported.

8. BASE SHEAR_ Is the total design lateral force or shear at the base of the structure.

9. BEARING WALL SYSTEM- Is a structural system that does not have a complete vertical load-carrying
space frame.

10. BOUNDARY ELEMENT- Is an element at edges of openings or at perimeters of shear walls or


diaphragms.

11. BRACED FRAME- Is essentially a vertical truss system of the concentric or eccentric type that is
provided to resist lateral forces.
12. BUILDING FRAME SYSTEM – Is essentially a complete space frame that provides support for gravity
loads.

13. BRACED WALL PANEL- Is a section of wall

14. BUILDING, ENCLOSED – Is a building that does not comply w/ the requirements for open or partially
enclosed buildings.

15. BUILDING ENVELOPE- Refers to cladding, roofing, exterior wall, glazing door assemblies, window
assemblies, and other components enclosing the building.

16. BUILDING, FLEXIBLE – Refers to slender buildings that have a fundamental natural frequency less
than 1.0Hz.

17. BUILDING, LOW-RISE – Is an enclosed or partially enclosed building that complies w/ the following
conditions:

1. Mean roof height, h, less than or equal to 18 meters, and


2. Mean roof height, h, does not exceed least horizontal dimension.

18. BUILDING, OPEN – Refers to a building having each wall at least 80% open. This condition is
expressed for each wall by equation Ao≥ 0.8Ag. See symbols and notations.

19. BUILDING, PARTIALLY ENCLOSED – Is a building that complied with both of the following condition:

1. The total area of openings in a wall that receives positive external pressure exceeds
the sum of the areas of opening in the balance of the building envelope
(walls and roof) by more than 10%; and
2. The total area of opening in a wall that receives positive external pressure exceeds
0.5m^2 or 1% of the area of that wall, whichever is smaller, and the
percentage of openings in the balance of the building envelope does not exceed
20%
These conditions are expressed by the following equations:
1. Ao > 1.10Aoi
2. Ao > smaller of (0.5m^2 or 0.01Ag)
3. Aoi/Agi ≤ 0.20

20. BUILDING OR OTHER STRUCTURE, REGULAR- SHAPED – Refers to a building or other structure having
no unusual geometrical irregularity in spatial form.

21. BUILDING OR OTHER STRUCTURES, RIGID – Refer to a building or other structure whose fundamental
frequency is greater than or equal to 1.0Hz.

22. CANTILEVERED COLUMN ELEMENT – Is a column element in a lateral- force- resisting system that
cantilevers from a fixed base and has minimal moment capacity at the top, with lateral forces applied
essentially at the top.
23. COLLECTOR- Is a member or element provided to transfer lateral forces from a portion of a structure
to vertical elements of the lateral-force-resisting system.

24. COMPONENT- Is a part or element of an architectural, electrical, mechanical or structural system.

25. COMPONENT, EQUIPMENT – Is a mechanical or electrical component or element that is part of a


mechanical and/or electrical.

26. COMPONENT, FLEXIBLE – Is a component, including its attachments, having a fundamental period
greater than 0.6s.

27. COMPONENTS AND CLADDING – Refers to elements of the building envelope that do not qualify as
part of the MWFRS.

28. CONCENTRICALLY- BRACED FRAME – Is a braced frame in w/c the members are subjected primarily to
axial forces.

29. CONVENTIONAL LIGHT-FRAME CONSTRUCTION- Is a type of construction in w/c the primary


structural are formed by a system of repetitive wood framing members.

30. COVERING, IMPACT- RESISTANT- Is a covering designed to protect impact- resistant glazing.

31. CRIPPLE WALL- Is a framed stud wall extending from the top of the foundation to the underside of
floor framing for the lowest occupied level.

32. DEAD LOADS – Consists of the weight of all materials and fixed equipment incorporated into the
building or other structure.

33. DECK- Is an exterior floor system supported in at least 2 opposing sides by an adjacent structure
and/or posts, piers, or other independent supports.

34. DESIGN BASIS GROUND MOTION – Is that ground motion that has a 10% chance of being exceed in
50 yrs. As determined by a site-specific hazard analysis or may be determined from a hazard map.

35. DESIGN FORCE – Is the equivalent static force to be used in the determination of wind loads for open
buildings and other structures.

36. DESIGN RESPONSE SPECTRUM – Is an elastic response spectrum for 5% equivalent viscous damping
used to represent the dynamic effects of the Design Basis Ground Motion for the design structures

37. DESIGN SEISMIC FORCE- Is the minimum total strength design base shear, factored and distributed.

38. DIAPHRAGM – Is a horizontal or nearly horizontal system acting to transmit lateral to the vertical
resisting elements. The term “diaphragm” includes horizontal bracing systems.
39. DIAPHRAGM, BLOCKED – Is a diaphragm in w/c all sheathing edges not occurring on framing
members are supported on and connected to blocking.

40. DIAPHRAGM CHORD/ SHEARING WALL CHORD – Is the boundary element of a diaphragm or shear
wall that is assumed to take axial stresses analogous to the flanges of a beam.

41. DIAPHRAGM STRUT (Drag strut, Tie, and Collector) – Is the element of a diaphragm parallel to the
applied load that collects and transfers diaphragm shear to the vertical resisting elements or distributes
loads w/in the diaphragm. Such members may take axial tension or compression.

42. DIAPHRAGM, UNBLOCKED – Is a diaphragm that has edge nailing at supporting members only.
Blocking between supporting structural members at panel edges is not included.

43. DRIFT or STOREY DRIFT – Is the lateral displacement of one level relative to the level above or below.

44. DUAL SYSTEM – Is a combination of moment- resisting frames and shear walls or brace frames

45. EAVE HEIGHT – Is the distance from the ground surface adjacent to the building to the roof eave line
at a particular wall. If the height of the eave varies along the wall, the average height shall be used.

46. ECCENTRICALLY BRACED FRAME (EBF) – Is a steel-braced frame

47. ELASTIC RESPONSE PARAMETERS- Are forces and deformations determined from an elastic dynamic
analysis using an unreduced ground motion representation.

48. ESCARPMENT- Also known as scarp

49. ESSENTIAL FACILITIES- Are buildings, towers and other vertical structures that are intended to remain
operational in the event of extreme environmental loading from wind or earthquakes.

50. FIBERBOARD- Is a fibrous, homogenous panel made from lignocellulosic fibers (usually wood or sugar
cane bagasse)

51. FLEXIBLE ELEMENT or SYSTEM – Is one whose deformation under lateral load is significally larger
that adjoining parts of the system.

52. GARAGE- Is a building or portion thereof ion w/c motor vehicle containing flammable or combustible
liquids or gas in its tank is stored, repaired, or kept.

53. GARAGE, PRIVATE – Is a building or a portion of a building, not more that 90m^2 in area, in w/c only
motor vehicles used by the tenants of the building on the premises are kept or stored.

54. GLAZING- Is a glass or transparent or translucent plastic sheet used in windows, doors, skylights, or
curtain walls.

55. GLUED BUILT-UP MEMBERS – Panel that has been bonded together by using adhesives
56. HORIZONTAL BRACING SYSTEM – Is a horizontal truss system that serves the same function as a
diaphragm.

57. IMPORTANCE FACTOR- Is a factor that accounts for the degree of hazards to human life and damage
to property.

58. LATERAL-FORCE-RESISTING SYSTEM – Is the part of the structural system designed to resist the
design seismic forces.

59. LIMIT STATE- Is a condition beyond w/c a structure or member becomes unfit for service and is
judged to be no longer useful for its intended function or to be unsafe

60. LIVE LOADS – Are those loads produced by the use and occupancy of the building or other structures
and do not include dead load, construction load, or environmental loads.

61. LOADS- Are forces or other actions that result from the weight of all building materials, occupants
and their possessions, environmental effects, differential changes. Permanent loads are those loads in
w/c variations over time are rare or of small magnitude. All other loads are variable loads.

62. MARQUEE- Is a permanent roofed structure attached to and supported by the building and
projecting over public ROW.

63. MEAN ROOF HEIGHT- Is the average of the roof eave height and the height to the highest point on
the roof surface, except that, for roof angles of less than or equal to 10 degrees, the mean roof height
shall be the roof eave height.

64. MOMENT-RESISTING FRAME- Is a frame in w/c members and joints are capable or resisting forces
primarily by flexure.

65. MOMENT-RESISTING WALL PRAME(MRWF)- Is a masonry wall frame especially detailed to provide
ductile behavior.

66. ORDINARY MOMENT-RESISTING FRAME (OMRF) – Is a moment-resisting frame not meeting special
detailing requirements for ductile behavior.

67.OVERSTRENGTH – Is a characteristic of structures where the actual strength is larger than the design
strength.

68. SHEAR WALL- Is a wall designed to resist lateral forces parallel to the plane of the wall (sometime
referred to as vertical diaphragm or structural wall).

69. SHEAR WALL- FRAME INTERACTIVE SYSTEM – Uses combinations of shear walls and frames designed
to resist lateral forces in proportion to their relative rigidities, considering interaction between shear
walls and frames on all levels.
70 SPACE FRAME - Is a 3-D system, w/o bearing walls, composed of members interconnected so as to
function as a complete self-contained unit w/ or w/o the aid of horizontal diaphragms or floor-bracing
systems.

71. STOREY- Is the space between levels.

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