UNIT-3

1) ______________ is a type of horizontal force.

 Wind
 Seismic waves
 Gravitation
 None of above

2) Pile foundation cannot be used in high-rise structures.

 True
 False

3) Which is the foundation System used in high rise structure?

a. Pile Foundation
b. Caisson Foundation
c. Mat Foundation
d. All of these

4) Skyscraper means_____________.
a. Large Building of medieval period
b. Tall Building with multiple floors
c. Private room
d. Small House

5) Truss connects core to perimeter columns increases the bending rigidity dependent of rigid core for
shear resistance is:
a. Braced Frame System
b. Outrigger Braced System
c. Belt truss System
d. All of the above

6) Wind Load, Seismic are type of______________.

a.Gravity Load
b.Lateral Load
c. Shear Load
d. All of the load
7) Identify type of structural system from the picture:

Trussed Frame Staggered Truss Belt – Truss Frame With Core Bearing Wall System

Bearing Wall with Core Tube in tube Core With Cantilever Flat Plate System Suspension

Bundle tube system Interstitial System Self-Supporting Boxes System

8) Identify type of Foundation from the picture:

Spread Foundation Pile Foundation

Raft / Mat Foundation

Types of Caisson Foundation

9) How many story buildings may not be considered a tall building in a high-rise city?
 14 – story
 18 – story
 28 - story
 8 - story

10) How many buildings are at the start of 2010 in excess of 300 meters?
 42
 23
 30
 100

11) “Super tall” as being is any building over __________ in height.

 300 meters
 600 meters
 330 meters
 370 meters

12) Which load has to withstand the structural system of high-rise buildings?
a) Vertical load
b) Horizontal load
c) Both a) & b)
d) None of the above

13) Foundation systems used for high rise structure are __________
a) Pile foundation
b) Mat foundation
c) Spread foundation
d) All of the above

14) When Caissons rest on soil, they are generally “Belled” at the bottom to spread the load over a wider
Area.
a) True
b) False

15) Spread Foundations are also known as ____________

a) Mat foundation
b) Footing Foundation
c) Pile foundation
d) None of the above

16) Spread Foundations are often utilized in____________

 low-rise buildings
 Skyscrapers
 Foundation on rocks
 None of above

17) In this hybrid system, a stiffening core has been added to the standard rigid frame in order to reduce
the lateral sway of the structure.
 True
 False

18) Bearing Wall systems are commonly used in apartments in which the spans between walls are
relatively
___________.
a) Large
b) Small
c) Both a) & b)
d) None of the above
19) In tube in tube system the lateral loads are shared between ______________
a) Inner tube
b) Outer tube
c) Both a) & b)
d) None of the above

20) Bundled tube system was the natural extension of the "Tube-in-Tube" system.
a) True
b) False

21) The advantage of core with cantilever system are__________

a) Freeing the façade
b) Clearing the interior floor space of columns
c) Both a) & b)
d) None of the above

22) Which structural system was used by L.I.Kahn?

a) Flat plate system
b) Core with cantilever system
c) Bundled tube system
d) Interstitial system

23) Vertical forces include

a) Gravity
b) Structural Loads
c) Live Loads
d) All of the above

24) High-rise building depends upon

a) Foundation
b) Vertical support system
c) Floor system
d) All of the above

25) The forms and materials of building foundation vary according to___________
a) Ground conditions
b) Structural materials
c) Structural type
d) all of the above

26) In bearing wall with core system, the core is often placed in a central location due to______________
a) The convenience for the distribution of building services
b) For an increased structural integrity
c) Both a) & b)
d) None of the above

27) Staggered truss system

a) Trusses utilized to transfer the lateral loads to the core.
b) Very large columns and bracing.
c) Stiff transfer floors allow for internal flexibility.
d) All of the above

28) In truss frame system, the rigid frame could be used to transfer the vertical loading and the truss for the
Lateral loading. TRUE
a) Vertical loading
b) Lateral loading
c) Both a) & b)
d) None of the above
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29) Rigid frame with core system is also known as__________
a) Framed tube system
b) Tube-In-Tube
c) Trussed Tube
d) Bundled Tube

30) In Taipei 101 building, the steel sphere as TMD is suspended to reduce horizontal sway due to-
a) Settlement & Wind Load
b) Wind & Geothermal Load
c) Seismic & Geothermal Load
d) Seismic & Wind Load

31) In which system Trusses utilized to transfer the lateral loads to the core?
a) Rigid frame with core system
b) Staggered truss system
c) Belt trussed frame with core system
d) Bearing wall with core system

32) Mat foundation is used when the soil bearing capacity is high.
a) True
b) False

33) Outrigger are rigid horizontal structures designed to improve building overturning stiffness.
a) True
b) False

34) ________ structure system consists of beam and column framework that some of the bays infilled with
masonry, reinforced concrete, or block walls.
a) Core & Outrigger system
b) Rigid Frame
c) Infilled Frame
d) Flat Plate system

35) _______ systems have thicker floor slabs around the columns to increase the slabs resistance to
punching shear.
a) Rigid Frame
b) Shear Wall
c) Flat Palte
d) None of the above

36) In which type of structural system exterior and interior columns of the structure are placed so closely
together that they not only appear to be solid, but they act as a solid surface as well?
a) Rigid frame
b) Tube in Tube
c) Shear wall
d) Flat plate

37) In which type of structural system, a stiffening core has been added to the standard rigid frame in order
to reduce the lateral sway of the structure?
a) Shear Wall
b) Rigid frame with core system
c) Outrigger
d) Flat Plate System

38) Who designed the John Hancock building?

 BRUCE GRAHAM.
 Mise Van dar Rohe
 Luies Sulevan
 None of above
39) ______is a secondary but essential part of a bridge structure. A bracing system serves to stabilize the
main girders during construction, to contribute to the distribution of load effects and to provide restraint to
compression flanges or chords where they would otherwise be free to buckle laterally.
 Braced structure.
 Trussed structure
 Both above
 None

40) The John Hancock Centre was the first __________structure utilizing exoskeletal members?
 TRUSSED TUBE.
 Tube in Tube
 Solid Core
 None of above

41) Lateral loads and vertical loads are integrated by?

 The diagonal crossbracing.
 Horizontal crossbracing.
 Vertical crossbracing.
 All of Above

42) ____used to retain soil and water as ________excavated?

 Steel tubes and Caisson holes.
 Caisson holes and Steel tubes
 Steel tubes and Iron base plates
 All of above

43) What’s the Height of JOHN HANCOCK CENTER?

 1,127 FEET (344M).
 375 m.
 400 m. (2000 ft.)
 None of above

44) What are the primary loads that acting on High rise Building?
a) Vertical Forces (Gravity, Structural loads & Live loads)
b) Horizontal Forces (Wind & Seismic)
c) All of above

45) In structural design purpose, all high-rise buildings are considered as____
 Vertical Cantilevers
 Horizontal cantilever
 Parallel cantilevers
 The beam

46) Types of braced structures.

a. Diagonal bracing
b. V bracing
c. X bracing
d. All of the above

47) Door and windows can be provide in shear wall

a. True
b. False

48) Which type of structural system is used in bhruj khalifa?

a. Butressed core system
b. shear wall system
c. trussed tube system
d. braced system
49) In Caisson Foundation, which process is use to spread the load over a wider area ?
 Belled.
 Bottomed
 Flat piled
 All above

50) What kind of frame system is this?

 Framed Tube System.
 Rigid frame
 Tube in tube
 All above

51) Associate the structural systems of Group I with buildings in Group II :

Group I Group II
P) Diagrid 1. Millennium Dome
Q) Outrigger Trusses 2. HSBC, Hong Kong
R) Suspended Floor 3. Taipei 101
S) Cable Stayed 4. Heart Tower, Chicago

a) P-1, Q-2, R-3, S-4

b) P-2, Q-3, R-4, S-1

c) P-4, Q-2, R-3, S-1

d) P-4, Q-3, R-2, S-1

52) ________ are created by auguring a deep hole into the ground, and then filling it with concrete.

a) Mat

b) Spread

c) Combined footing

d) Cassion

53) Seismic force is counted into horizontal forces because__________

 It shakes the building and produces lateral disturbance.

 The statement id false
 Seismics are vertical disturbances
 They act horizontally

54) Identify the type of structural system.

A. Belt truss

B. Belt-trussed frame with core

C. Outrigger system

D. None of the above