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25 Cards in this Set
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What is an Assembly? |
2 or more interconnected structural components combine to me a specific function or design requirement |
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balloon frame |
what is the type of wood frame construction in which the studs in exterior walls extend from the basement or foundation to the roof |
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bar joist |
what is a choice constructed of steel with bars in the vertical webspace |
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what is a bowstring truss |
the roof assembly with the curved top chord and horizontal bottom chord |
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butterfly roof |
what is a v-shaped roof and watch the two slides slope toward a valley in the middle |
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cantilever |
what is beam that is unsupported at one or both ends |
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what is chipboard |
a wooden structural panel found by gluing and compressing wood strands together under pressure |
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what is a chord |
the main structural members of a truss as distinguished from the diagonals |
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what is a cockloft |
an open space between the roof and ceiling of a commercial or industrial building |
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what is a force that tends to push the mass of a materials above |
compression |
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what is a curtain board |
a non load bearing wall extending down from a roof or ceiling to limit the horizontal spread of fire |
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what is a curtain wall |
a non load bearing exterior wall used as a weather barrier but not for structural support |
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decking |
what are planks or panels of plywood or oriented strand board that form the substrate of a roof assembly |
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what's an eave |
the edge of a picture of that overhangs an outside wall |
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engineered I beam |
what is a what an I beam consisting of continuous wooden upper and lower cord separated by a web of OSB or some more sheetrock |
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what is a gable roof |
they played Scrooge characterized by square cuts and sides that slope down from the ridge line to the eaves |
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what is a gable wall |
A wall rising to meet a gable roof at the end of a building |
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what is a gambrel roof |
hey Ruth characterized by a single ridge line from which roof sections on both sides of the ridge to send at two different pitches |
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girder |
what is a horizontal structural member used to support beams on joints |
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what is a gusset plate |
wooden or metal plate used to connect structural members that are bolted together |
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what is a hip roof |
a pitched roof in which the ends are leveled so that there are no gable walls |
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Hvac |
abbreviation for heating ventilating and air conditioning |
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direct pumping system |
what is a water supply system supply directly by a system of pumps or other than elevated storage tanks |
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what is a gravity system |
water supply system that relies entirely on the force of gravity |
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what is a circulating feed |
a fire hydrant that receives water from two or more directions |
