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Construction Materials Midterm Guide

The document is a midterm exam for a construction materials and testing course. It contains two parts, with identification questions in Part I asking students to identify important construction terms. Part II asks students to list and enumerate different construction materials, their properties, requirements, and components.

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Construction Materials Midterm Guide

The document is a midterm exam for a construction materials and testing course. It contains two parts, with identification questions in Part I asking students to identify important construction terms. Part II asks students to list and enumerate different construction materials, their properties, requirements, and components.

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COLLEGE OF Engineering and Architecture

MIDTERM INTERIMS
3rd Trimester A.Y. 2022-2023
CECMAT20 – CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS AND TESTING – LEC

General Instructions:
1. Read all instructions carefully.
2. Write your answer on a piece yellow pad paper.

Part I. Identification
1. Materials or supply brought to the site by the Contractor or a sub-contractor.
2. Materials that have been used for centuries, often locally sourced and based on
traditional knowledge and techniques.
3. Evaluation that determines how a component will behave under pressure.
4. Structural material consisting of a hard, chemically inert particulate substance that is
bonded by cement and water.
5. Named after the limestone cliffs on the Isle of Portland in England.
6. Classification of concrete mixture where the contractor is responsible in establishing the
mixture proportion that will achieve the required strength and workability as specified in
the plan.
7. Slump that indicates the lack of cohesion in the concrete mix.
8. Type of cement that can withstand prolonged exposure to high temperature of more than
1000 degrees Celsius.
9. Conglomeration of cement, aggregates, and water producing a solid mass.
10. Most widely used manufactured construction material in the world.

Part II. Enumeration


1. List at least six (6) importance of construction materials.
2. List at least six (6) man-made construction materials.
3. List at least six (6) physical properties of construction materials.
4. List the two (2) good practice in selecting the maximum size of aggregate according to
code.
5. List the four (4) ACI requirements for concrete.
6. List the four (4) components of Argillocalcareous Rocks.
7. List at least two (2) natural construction materials.

Prepared Reviewed by: Approved by:

Engr. Jacob O. Sabido Engr. Bryan L. De Guzman JOSEFINA G. SAN MIGUEL, Ph. D.
Civil Engineering Faculty Civil Engineering Program Chair Academic Director

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