Building Construction (1st Edition)
Chapter 1-2 Definitions Test (#2)
17 questions

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1) To coat with aluminum.

2) A system of measurement designed to have the parts fit together on a grid of a standard module.  The module is four inches.

3) Wood strips fastened to a wall, floor, or ceiling for the purpose of attaching covering materials.

4) Steel Construction: spacing between rivet centers.  General Construction:  the slope of a roof expressed as a ratio of rise to span.

5) A force which tends to push the mass of a material together.

6) Secondary members of a truss contained between chords.

7) A weld made in the interior angle of two pieces placed at right angles to each other.

8) A beam that supports a roof.

9) A drawing of a parcel of land giving its legal description.

10) Diagonal bracing between joists.

11) A room or building built on the roof, usually to cover stairwells, house elevator machinery, certain water tanks, and/or heating and cooling equipment.

12) Two or more strips set at a desired elevation so that the concrete may be leveled by drawing a straight edge over their surface.  Synonymous with Straight Edge.

13) An angular board installed at the intersection of a roof deck and a wall to avoid a sharp right angle when the roof is installed.

14) A stress in a structural member which tends to stretch the member or pull it apart.

15) All furniture, people, or other movable loads not included as a permanent part of the structure.

16) The stress resulting when two forces act on a body in opposite directions in parallel, adjacent panels.

17) The vertical surface at the back of a countertop.