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1.What are non-structural elements of the civil buildings?

Doors, Partition Walls, Stairs

2.What are the groups of buildings according to the function?


Civil
Industrial Buildings
Rural (agricultural) buildings

3.What are the main types of Loads?


Vertical Loads or Gravity
Lateral Loads

4.What are the types of pile foundations according to their


function?
1.End Bearing Pile
2.Friction Pile

5.Which of the following answers are the type of lateral


loads?
Wind load (WL)
Earthquake load (EL)

6.What are the types of pile foundations according to their


materials? Which of the following answers is correct?
1.Concreat Pile 2.Timber Pile 3.Steel Pile 4.Composite Pile
long, slender, columnar elements
Steel, concrete, or timber can be used to create piles

7.Which of the following answers are the type of Gravity


loads?
Dead load
Live load also included are snow loads

8.Where are isolated foundations usually installed?


Residential or Low-rise commercial buildings

9.Which of the following answers are the main type of


foundations?
Shallow and Deep foundation
10.What are substructure components of the building?
Lowest support of a structure
Basically a structure that inside the ground level such as
foundation, tunnel, cofferdam.

11.What are the main structural elements of the rigid frame


system?
Columns and Beams

12.What types of soils are excellent for building foundation?


Sandy/Rock/Gravel and loam soils
13.What is the structural system that doesn’t have any
beams?
Flat Slab System

14.What are the main structural systems for high rises and
skyscapers?
Shear wall system
Braced Frame System
Outrigger systems
Tube System
15.What system is combination of shear wall and rigid frame
system?
Wall – Frame System

16.What are structural elements of the civil buildings?


Foundations
Columns
Beams
Slabs
Walls
Roofs
Trusses
Bracing
Stairs
Decks

17.What are the types of Civil buildings?


Residential and Public

18.What are the main types of gravity load?

Dead load, Live load, also included are snow loads

19.Which load known as “imposed load” or “temporary


load”. Live load
20.Which of the following answers are the type of lateral
loads?
Wind load (WL) and Earthquake load(EL) this also includes
hydrostatic and earth loads

21.Buildings are deformed due to which of the following


reasons?
Expansion joints, settlement joints
Seismic (earthquake-proof) joints
Structural Loads
Settlement
Thermal Expansion/Contraction
Wind Forces
Seismic Activity
Soil Movement
Material Fatigue
Water Infiltration

22.This structural system is a combination of Shear wall and


Rigid Frames. Also called as Dual-systems. What structural
system is suitable for this?
Wall – Frame up to 7-storeys

23. In what cases are raft (mat) foundations used?


when the soil has low bearing capacity, or when the
structure’s load is distributed over a large area, such as in
high-rise buildings

24.What system is consist of main central core?


shear walls or braced frames
(reinforced concrete core shear wall)

25.What are superstructure components of the building?


Superstructure
Extended part of the substructure
A structure that stands above the ground level
Example: Form of beam, slab and column
Material: steel structure, wood or reinforce concreate

26.What are the types of foundations according to their


location?
Lowest part of a building
27.Where are strip foundations usually installed?
residential buildings
suitable for light to medium-loaded structures built on strong
and stable soils
28.What are the main structural elements of the Shear wall
system?
Reinforced Concrete

29.What types of soils are not ideal for building foundation?


Clay soils
30.What types of foundations are suitable for high-rise
building?
Raft or Mat Foundations Deep Foundations

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