Arc Appr Test 2 UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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Arc Appr Test 2 UPDATED Actual Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
9/11 structural failure - CORRECT ANSWER- steel metal melts at high temp
progressive collapse - CORRECT ANSWER- A chain reaction of failures following
damage to a small portion of a structure
Freedom Tower - CORRECT ANSWER- Da...
Arc Appr Test 2 UPDATED Actual Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
9/11 structural failure - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- steel metal melts at high temp
progressive collapse - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- A chain reaction of failures following
damage to a small portion of a structure
Freedom Tower - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- David Childs, FAIA (Skidmore, Owings, and
Merrill), & Daniel Libeskind
Forces on Architecture - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- vertical, horizontal, lateral, and dynamic
vertical forces on architecture - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- gravity, dead loads, live loads,
and static loads
Dead loads - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- forces from all the "immovable" elements of a
building (weight of building materials, walls, floors, built-ins, etc.)
Live loads - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- forces from all the "movable" elements of a building
(people, equipment, furniture, etc)
static loads - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Applied slowly and remain constant
Horizontal Forces on architecture - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- wind, earthquakes, and
ground pressure
Lateral Forces on architecture - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- forces from sides
Dynamic Forces on architecture - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- forces applied suddenly
, Compression - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- capacity to resist being pushed together
Tension - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Capacity to resist being pulled apart
Types of construction and structural systems - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Frame and
Masonry
frame - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- trabeated, wood and steel
Stone megaliths - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- big rocks
aka stonehenge
Menhirs - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- single stone standing upright
Dolmen - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- several stones supporting a stone slab
Henges - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- circular ditches around which some megalithic
monuments are arranged
Cromlech - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a circle of megaliths
Stonehenge - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- most famous Neolithic monuments; built 3000-
2100 B.C.
rings around alter stone towards middle
mortise and tenon - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- a groove cut into stone or wood, called a
mortise, that is shaped to receive a tenon, or projection, of the same dimensions
Types of pyramids - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- step, bent, and straight sided
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