questions of the week 10/16/16

Questions of the week

Introduction and requirements:

A member of the Award Committee will post a question, at a random day/time.

A competing member may make one post per question thread to answer the question and the member’s winning entry must have all parts of the question answered completely in that one post. Editing your one answer post allowed will result in disqualification.

Winnings will be limited to no more than 6 times in a given year, the objective is to allow as many Members a chance to win as possible.
Any disregard to the above and divulging the correct answers will forfeit the weekly winnings.

So please refrain from participating if you have already won in the maximum for the Year.

First correct answer (as judged by the Awards Committee or Poster of the Question) wins.

The lucky winner will get a case of “Now that you’ve had a Home Inspection Books” shipped to them at their address on file. Make sure your Address on File with Inachi is correct.

Courtesy of Nick Gromicko.

Winners of the Question of The Week shall request their prize by emailing fastreply@nachi.org and submitting their Mailing address for shipping.

Allow 2 weeks for delivery.

The questions:

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  1. The process of proper and accurate measurement of concrete ingredients for uniformity of proportion, is known as**

A. grading
B. curing
C. mixing
D. batching
E. none of these.
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  1. Pick up the correct statement from the following: **

A. Insufficient quantity of water makes the concrete mix harsh
B. Insufficient quantity of water makes the concrete unworkable
C. Excess quantity of water makes the concrete segregated
D. Excess quantity of water causes bleeding in concrete
E. All the above.

3. Workability of concrete is measured by:

A. Vicat apparatus test
B. Slump test
C. Minimum void method
D. Talbot Richard test.

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4. Curing:**

A. reduces the shrinkage of concrete
B. preserves the properties of concrete
C. prevents the loss of water by evaporation
D. all of the above.

C
e
b
d

d, e, b, b

D,E,B,D

C E B D but Sam got it before me.

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John Olson gets the prize!
Congratulations.
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DEBD

  1. The process of proper and accurate measurement of concrete ingredients for uniformity of proportion, is known as

A. grading
B. curing
C. mixing
D. batching
E. none of these.

Answer: Option D

  1. Pick up the correct statement from the following:

A. Insufficient quantity of water makes the concrete mix harsh
B. Insufficient quantity of water makes the concrete unworkable
C. Excess quantity of water makes the concrete segregated
D. Excess quantity of water causes bleeding in concrete
E. All the above.

Answer: Option E

  1. Workability of concrete is measured by

A. Vicat apparatus test
B. Slump test
C. Minimum void method
D. Talbot Richard test.

Answer: Option B

  1. Curing

A. reduces the shrinkage of concrete
B. preserves the properties of concrete
C. prevents the loss of water by evaporation
D. all of the above.

Answer: Option D

Congrats John.

http://www.concretenetwork.com/concrete/slabs/curing.htm

Congrats John!

Congratulations, John!

Congratulations John!

Thanks Paul Lesieur](https://www.nachi.org/forum/users/plesieur/)

**
John Olson gets the prize!
Congratulations. **

Well done John

Thanks Paul for doing this, I really enjoy learning something new. You do a great job. Thanks again, John

Ditto…:slight_smile:

My pleasure and I’m learning new things myself.

Congratulations John once again. Good job. :slight_smile:

For additional information to that link.

Curing
A. reduces the shrinkage of concrete
B. preserves the properties of concrete
C. prevents the loss of water by evaporation
D. all of the above.
Answer: Option D

Curing has a strong influence of properties of hardened concrete such as;

durability
strength
water-tightness
abrasion resistance