Lofts Flashcards
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What would a frontage of 25 feet or less indicate?
No interior columns
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What type of loft has four exterior load bearing walls?
Heavy timber
**Only other construction which has four loadbearing walls is bowstring truss
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What would a large piece of granite stone covering the sidewalk to curb line indicate?
Full Sidewalk vault
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Who approves the use of freight elevators?
IC
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When can you operate a stream into a shaft window?
Visible fire extending up the shaft
**Shaft when those will look identical to other windows
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How can you tell that a cast-iron column was cast properly?
You cannot
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Can cast iron columns with stand thermal stress?
Yes
However over longer periods of time it can fracture and fail:
at 1100° it loses 58% of its original strength
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Do cast iron columns regain their strength?
No, their strength lost is cumulative
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Do cast iron columns with stand eccentric loads?
No
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Can the failure of a single column cause collapse of all columns?
Yes - they must all line up vertically during construction, and therefore one can cause the collapse of all
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Which is strong and compression and tension? Cast iron or wrought iron?
Wrought iron is strong and compression and tension
Cast-iron is strong and compression but weak in tension
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Are segmental arch floors in new or old lofts
New
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Are square columns found on lower floors or higher floors?
Lower - round ones are found on upper floors.
Square are 20% stronger than round
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How do the floors run in a mill loft?
Front to rear
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Steel tension cables or rods (stars) can fail at how many degrees?
800
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What hose line should be stretched?
2 1/2
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For a cellar fire who ensures that the sprinkler system is supplied?
Second
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Can you hit a segmental arch floor with a line?
Should not - will spall violently; do not operate the stream directly overhead
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Lower floor fires who ensures the sprinkler system is supplied?
3rd engine
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Can you place a ladder near a pediment?
No
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If the first truck cannot descend the interior stairs, what do they do?
Stay with the first line while the second truck gains access via alternate means
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Roof access in order?
BAR
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What is the first OV primary position?
Rear of building
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At a top floor fire who brings the saw to the roof?
Second roof
