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Set of rules developed by a standards organization and adopted as law by a governmental body to regulate the minimum requirements for construction, renovations, and maintenance of buildings is known as what? |
Building Code |
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This term refers to the total quantity of combustible contents of a building, space, or fire area, including interior finish and trim, expressed and heat units of the equivalent weight in wood: |
Fuel Load |
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This is where a person may wait safely until further assistance or instructions are available: |
Area of refuge |
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What term refers to a chemical process of oxidation that occurs at rate fast enough to produce heat and usually light in the form of either a glow or flame? |
Combustion |
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In NFPA 220 each building classification is designated by a three digit number code what does the first digit represent? |
Fire resistance rating (in hours) of exterior bearing walls |
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In NFPA 220 each building classification is designated by a three digit number code. What does the second digit represent? |
Fire resistance rating of structural frames or columns and girders that support loads of more than one floor. |
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In NFPA 220 each building classification is designated by a three digit number code. What does the third digit represent? |
Fire resistance rating of the floor construction |
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What term refers to the building code classification based on the use to which owners or tenants put buildings are portions of buildings? |
Occupancy |
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Identify the 12 major occupancy classifications as outlined in NFPA 5000 and NFPA 101. |
Assembly Educational Day care Health care Ambulatory Health Care Detention and correctional Residential Residential board and care Mercantile Business Industrial Storage |
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What term is used for the maximum amount of heat that can be released if all fuel is consumed? |
Fire Load |
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What term refers to the total amount of thermal energy that could be generated by the combustion reaction if a fuel were completely burned? |
Heat of combustion |
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What is the most commonly used test to determine combustibility? |
ASTM E 136 (Standard Test Method for Behavior of Materials in a Vertical Tube Furnace at 750°C) |
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What term refers to the ability of a structural assembly or material to maintain its loadbearing ability under fire conditions? |
Fire Resistance |
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What is the most common laboratory test to determine fire resistance? |
ASTM E-119 |
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What term refers to the condition of balance that exists when a structural system is capable of supporting the applied load? |
Equilibrium |
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What load type is steady, motionless, constant, or applied gradually? |
Static Load |
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What are the three types of accommodations for seismic forces? |
Expansion Joints Damping Mechanisms Base Isolation |
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Pressure exerted by the soil against the foundation is known as what? |
Active soil pressure |
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The force of the foundation against the soil is known as what? |
Passive soil pressure |
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What structural member carries loads perpendicular to its longitudinal dimension? |
Beam |
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What structural member is designed to support an axial load? |
Column |
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What structural member is curved with primarily compressive interior stressors and produces an inclined force at their and supports? |
Arches |
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What structural units are made up of a group of triangles in one plane? |
Truss |
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The top and bottom members of a truss are called what? |
Chords |
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The middle section of a truss is known by what two terms? |
Web or Diagonals |
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This is a common type of structure that uses the walls of a building to support spanning elements such as beams, trusses, and precast concrete slabs: |
Bearing Wall Structure |
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Stairs that are not part of the means of egress and usually connect two floors in a multi story building are known as what? |
Convenience Stairs |
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Buildings that often include scissor stairs are: |
Airport Terminals Convention Centers Malls Cinema Complexes |
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Material that is a poor conductor of electricity. |
Dielectric |
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What is a stairwell pressurization system that can modulate the pressure in the stairwell in relation to the interior of the building or vent excess pressure? |
Compensated system |
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What is the standard test used to measure the surface of burning characteristics of various materials? |
ASTM E-84 |
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What is the test apparatus used in the determination of flame spread ratings? |
Steiner Tunnel |
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Asbestos cement board is a sign of flame spread rating of what? |
0 |
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Red oak flooring is assigned a flame spread rating of what? |
100 |
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According to the test protocol what is the rate of flame spread along oak flooring? |
24 feet in 5 1/2 minutes |
