Differential Settlement 1.

Most severe structural damage on foundation failures

Crosslot bracing 2. Best method for bracing the steel sheeting
Caissons 3. Drilling into the ground and pouring concrete into the drilled hole
Footing 4. Widened part of the foundation that spreads a load from the building
Backfill 5. Earthen material used to fill the excavation around a foundation
Grading 6. The act of excavating or filling of earth in preparation for a finishing surface
Geotextile 7. Synthetic sloth used beneath the surface of the ground to stabilize soil or promote drainage
Lagging 8. Planks placed between soldier beams to retain earth around an excavation
Sump 9. A pit designed to collect water for removal from an excavation or basement
Tremie 10. A large funnel used to deposit concrete in deep form or beneath water or slurry
Underpinning 11. Process of placing new foundation beneath an existing structure
Floating foundation 12. A foundation used in yielding soil, having for its footing a raft placed deep enough that the weight of the
excavated soil is equal or greater than the weight of the construction supported.
Pads 13. A single isolated footing for each column in a typical house construction.
Gravel 14. A soil particle requiring only a thumb and forefinger to lift
Domes 15. Structure that demonstrates inclined forces.
Slurry wall 16. Installed for permanence.
Tiebacks 17. Type of bracing provides an unobstructed area for construction work.
Plumb, aligned & square 18. The function of the batter board and the attached lining cord.
Dozer 19. A tractor unit that has a blade attached to the machine's front.
Scraper 20. This equipment goes back and forth between cut and fill activities.
Forklift 21. Not an excavator.
Hauling 22. Primary purpose of the truck.
Undermining 23. The failure of retaining walls where the bottom portion of the wall slides first.
Up-down construction 24. Foundation work where a building's superstructure already proceeds before substructure is totally
completed.
Well point 25. Bored hole where water can be pumped out once the pipe reaches the water table.
Grader 26. A finishing equipment.
Riprap 27. Stone placed on a slope to prevent erosion.

Pretensioning 28. An activity where a steel tendon is stretched, the concrete is cast and bonded to the tendon, and
eventually releasing the stretched tendon.
Concrete flatwork 29. General term applicable to concrete floors and slabs that require finishing operations.
Chair 30. A device used to support reinforcing bars upon placement for concrete casing.
Cast-in-place 31. Concrete that is poured in its final location.
Three 32. A pedestal is a member used primarily to support axial compressive load. The height-to-lateral dimension
ratio is less than or equal to _____.
Heat Generation 33. Which of the following characteristics is of utmost concern if mass concrete is produced.
Tendon 34. A steel strand used for prestressing a concrete member.
Zero-Slump Concrete 35. A concrete mixed with so little water that it does not sag when piled vertically.
Lift-slab construction 36. Casting all the slabs in a stack on the ground, then lifting them up with jacks and welding them in place.
Dowel 37. A steel reinforcing bar that projects from a foundation to tie it to a column or wall, or from section of a
concrete slab or wall to another.
Stirrup 38. A vertical loop of steel bar used to reinforce a concrete beam against diagonal tension forces.
Clinker 39. Intermediate material, which when finally ground further and combined with gypsum, produces the cement
powder.
Aggregate 40. The inherent strength of concrete depends on the quality of _________.
Water-cement Ratio 41. More cement than water in the mix produces stronger concrete.
Curing 42. Concrete must be kept moist until its required strength is achieved.
Screed 43. A stiff straightedge of wood or metal that establishes the level the surface to which concrete will be placed.
Reshoring 44.Inserting temporary supports under concrete beams and slabs after the formwork has been removed to
prevent overloading prior to full curing of the concrete
Flat plate 45. Not a one-way sitecast concrete framing system.
Architectural concrete 46. Concrete that is exposed as an interior or exterior surface in the completed structure.
Solid slab 46. Precast concrete slab that is suitable only for shorter spans.
Vermiculite 47. A lightweight aggregate.
Set-accelerating mixture 48. Kind of admixture that is used if concrete is intended to cure rapidly.
Workability 49. Not a desired property of hardened concrete.
Ribbed Slab 50. Not a two-way sitecast concrete framing system.
Cantilver 51. A beam or slab that extends beyond its last point of support.

Forging 52. Not a cold-working steel process

Extrusion 53. Process of squeezing a material through a shaped orifice (called die) to produce a linear element with the
desired connection
Screws 54. Least appropriate for joining steel members
Cellular Decking 55. A type of metal decking where two sheets, one corrugated and one flat, are welded together and can be
made sufficiently to stiff to support normal floor loads without structural assistance from the concrete fill that is
poured over it to produce a level floor.
Moment Connection 56. Produces the most rigid frame in stabilizing the frame of buildings.
"A" 57.Meaning of "A" in A36 / A325
Lead 58. Heaviest among metals
Ascending order carbon content 59. Mild steel - Medium steel - Hard steel - Spring steel
Castellated beam 60. A steel beam fabricated by dividing the web of w wide flange section with a lengthwise zigzag cut, then
welding halves together at the peaks, thus increasing its depth without increasing its weight.
Casting 61. Shaping process that tends to produce a weaker metal.
"S" 62. Letter designation for I-beams
Lally column 63. A trademark for a brand of steel pipe column usually filled with concrete.
Chromium 64. The main alloy component of stainless steel
Terne metal 65. An alloy that has leas as primary ingredient.
Cast iron 66. Iron with very high content.
Steel 67. Iron with a controlled amount of carbon generally less than 1.7%.
Elastic 68. Able to return to its original size or shape after removal of stress
Fillet weld 69.A weld at the inside intersection of two metal surfaces that meet at right angles.
Galvanizing 70. The application of zinc coating to steel as a means of preventing corrosion.
Gauge 71. A measure of thickness of sheet material.
I-beam 72. The American standard beam section
Temper 73. To strengthen or toughen a metal by reheating at a lower temperature and slowly cooling the material
Sheet 74. Flat rolled metal less than 1/4" in thickness
Space frame 75. A truss that spans with two way section.