QUIZ #4

(NSCP TERMINOLOGIES)
1. Occupancies and structures housing or supporting toxic or explosive chemicals or
substances; Non-building structures storing, supporting or containing quantities of toxic
or explosive substances.
a. Essential facilities c. Miscellaneous Structures
b. Hazardous facilities d. Standard Occupancy

2. Occupancy having surgery and emergency treatment areas, fire and police stations,
garage and shelters for emergency vehicles and emergency aircraft. Structures and
shelters in emergency preparedness centers.
a. Essential facilities c. Miscellaneous Structures
b. Hazardous facilities d. Standard Occupancy

3. Private garages, carports, sheds and fences over 1.5 m high

a. Essential facilities c. Miscellaneous Structures
b. Hazardous facilities d. Standard Occupancy

4. It is in the structural plan which includes, beam and slab designation, columns
terminated at a particular floor should be hatched
a. General Notes c. Foundation Plan
b. Masonry d. Floor Framing Plan

5. It is in the structural plan which includes, property line, footing and column
designations, location of walls with wall footings, slab on fill thickness and rebar spacing,
scale consistent with floor plan scale
a. General Notes c. Foundation Plan
b. Masonry d. Floor Framing Plan

6. It is part of the structural plan which includes, excavation notes including soil bearing
capacity, construction notes and design criteria, notes on rebars and structural steel and
notes requiring shop drawings
a. General Notes c. Foundation Plan
b. Roof Framing Plan d. Floor Framing Plan
7. It is in the structural plan which includes, roof beams, truss, rafters, bracings
designations
purlin size and spacing call out
a. General Notes c. Foundation Plan
b. Roof Framing Plan d. Floor Framing Plan

8. The wall that resists horizontal forces (wind and earthquake) applied in a plane of the
wall:
a. Bearing wall c. Dam retains water
b. Shear wall d. Dike – waves, sea

9. Of the following type of loads, which is the most difficult to determine.

a. Dead c. Static
b. Impact d. Wind

[Link] is an example of
a. Wind Load c. Dead Load
b. Live Load d. Ponding Load

[Link] type of load can be computed accurately

a. Wind Load c. Live Load
b. Dead Load d. Snow Load

12. Of the following, which represents the most accurate or least assumption in
computation.
a. Wind Load c. Dead Load
b. Live Load d. Lateral Load

13. Structural system used to transfer/transmit Lateral Forces like wind and earthquake
load to the vertical-resisting elements.
a. Shear Wall c. Ordinary Braced Frame (OBF)
b. Diaphragm d. Seismic Wall
14. A structural system used to counter the effect of Lateral Forces like wind and
earthquake load. It is also referred to as a Structural Wall.
a. Shear Wall c. Ordinary Braced Frame (OBF)
b. Diaphragm d. Seismic Wall

15. Which among the list is the preferred location for a shear wall (utility core) considering
seismic condition in a 15 storey building with a width of 15 meters and length of 25
meters?
a. Left Side c. Front
b. Right Side d. Center

16. It is one in which the lateral Stiffness is less than 70 percent of the stiffness of the Story
above
a. Weak Story c. Story Drift
b. Soft Story d. Story Drift Ratio

17. It is one in which the Story Strength is less than 80 percent of the Story above
a. Weak Story c. Story Drift
b. Soft Story d. Story Drift Ratio

18. Is the lateral displacement of one level relative to the level above or below
a. Slippage c. Misalignment
b. Story Drift d. Deflection

19. Is the Story Drift divided by the Story Height.

a. Story Drift Ratio c. Drift-Height Ratio
b. Poisson’s Ratio d. Story Shear

20.________ are those loads produced by the use and occupancy of the building or other
structure and do not include dead load, construction load, or environmental loads such
as wind load, earthquake load and fluid load.
a. Wind Load c. Dead Load
b. Live Load d. Ponding Load
21. A wall designed to resist the lateral displacement of soil or other materials.
a. Retaining Wall c. Parapet Wall
b. Bearing Wall d. Shear wall

22. Part of any wall entirely above the roof line.

a. Retaining Wall c. Parapet Wall
b. Bearing Wall d. Shear wall

23. Any wall meeting either of the following classifications:

 Any metal or wood stud wall that supports more than 1.45 kN/m of vertical load
in addition to its own weight.
 Any masonry or concrete wall that supports more than 2.90 kN/m of vertical load
in addition to its own weight.
a. Exterior Wall c. Parapet Wall
b. Bearing Wall d. Shear wall

24. Total design lateral force or shear at the base

a. Awning c. Diaphragm
b. P-delta d. Base Shear

25. The secondary effect on shears and moments of structural members due to the action
of the vertical loads induced by horizontal displacement of the structure resulting from
various loading conditions.
a. Awning c. Diaphragm
b. P-delta d. Base Shear

26. A horizontal or nearly horizontal system acting to transmit lateral forces to the vertical
resisting elements.
a. Awning c. Diaphragm
b. P-delta d. Base Shear

27. An architectural projection that provides weather protection, identity, or decoration

and is wholly supported by the building to which it is attached
a. Awning c. Diaphragm
b. P-delta d. Base Shear
28. Is a structural system that does not have a complete vertical load carrying space frame
a. Walling System c. Dual System
b. Bearing wall system d. Braced System

29. Is a combination of moment resisting frames and shear walls or braced frame
a. Walling System c. Dual System
b. Bearing wall system d. Braced System

30. It is a member with a ration of height-to-least lateral dimension less than or equal to
three used to primarily to support axial compressive load.
a. Pedestal c. Long column
b. Short column d. Intermediate column

31. It is a method of prestressing in which prestressing reinforcement in which prestressing

reinforcement is tensioned after concrete has hardened.
a. Prestressed section c. Post tensioning
b. Pre tensioning d. Tendons design

32. It is a method of prestressing in which prestressing reinforcement in which prestressing

reinforcement is tensioned before concrete is cast
a. Prestressed section c. Post tensioning
b. Pre tensioning d. Tendons design

33. It is a Wall designed to resist lateral forces parallel to the plane of the wall.
a. Bearing Wall c. Parapet Wall
b. Shear Wall d. Retaining Wall

34. What is the temporary force exerted by a device that introduce tension into a pre-
stressing tendons?
a. Jacking force c. Driving force
b. Pre-stressing force d. Tensile force

35. It is an assemblage of framing members designed to support gravity loads and resists
lateral forces.
a. Concrete Building c. Bridge
b. Steel Frame d. Structure