VERTUDAZO, JERRICK WAYNE C.

1. In designing earthquake-resistant buildings, which among the choices is best and

most economical?
a. The architect creates the conceptual design of structure and non-structural
elements while the engineer performs the calculations
b. The architect and engineer collaborate from the earliest planning stage of
the building project
c. The architect and the engineer do not cooperate at all during the planning
and design
d. The architect alone creates the final building design without the help of an
engineer
2. What is the most common danger for a building with soft-storey ground floor or
upper floors, which will lead to an inevitable collapse?
a. Sway mechanism
b. Eccentricity and twisting
c. Buckling of columns
d. Diagonal cracks
3. The building with asymmetric bracing will twist about the
a. Center of resistance
b. Center of mass
c. Center of gravity
d. Center of stiffness
4. Why is it recommended to avoid bracing offsets?
a. It is not aesthetically appealing when there are bracing offsets
b. The bracing offsets will induce a dangerous sway mechanism
c. The bending moments and the shear forces induced by the offset cannot
be fully compensated
d. The bracing offsets will induce diagonal cracks
5. How many slender reinforced concrete structural walls should there be in each
principal direction?
a. two
b. four
c. six
d. eight
6. Why is it strongly recommended to avoid mixed systems with columns and structural
masonry walls?
a. They will induce a dangerous sway mechanism
b. They are not aesthetically appealing
c. They will induce bending moments and shear forces which cannot be fully
compensated
d. The reinforced concrete frames have a substantially smaller horizontal
stiffness than the masonry walls
7. After an earthquake, what are the typical observable effects of reinforced concrete
frames with masonry infills?
a. Buckling
b. Diagonal cracks
c. Twisting
d. Sway mechanism
8. In skeleton structures, how do we separate non-structural partition walls from the
structure?
a. By providing steel reinforcements
b. By symmetric bracing
c. By soft joints
d. By hard joints
9. What is the most common cause for the failure of short columns during an
earthquake?
a. Shear failure
b. Eccentricity
c. Buckling
d. Twisting
10. The infill of parapet walls into a frame structure without the addition of joints can
cause
a. Buckling
b. Diagonal cracks
c. Twisting
d. Short column phenomena