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Wood: Board Foot Wood: Board Foot - Full TranscriptionThis video covers a couple of terms and concepts that pertain to timber construction. Here I took my students to a lumber sawmill and everything is computer controlled. As soon as these logs start to be processed, they are immediately scanned by
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Trusses: 4. Truss Method Of Joints Math Trusses: 4. Truss Method Of Joints Math - Full Transcription Now to finish this sheet, we've done all the easy members that did not need a lot of math. To finish this sheet, we're going to need a little
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Masonry: Backer Rod Masonry: Backer Rod - Full Transcription So this video is about backer rods that are used in expansion joints and to fill gaps in buildings. And backer rods are usually squished into a gap. And what happens here is the foam itself does not allow adherence with
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Concrete: 9. Concrete Beam Reinforcing Concepts Concrete: 9. Concrete Beam Reinforcing Concepts - Full Transcription This video illustrates the reinforcing of a concrete beam. Before we start with the reinforcing of the concrete beam, I'd like to discuss briefly the shear and bending moment diagrams of a continuous
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Concrete: 8. Concrete Cover - Life Safety Concrete: 8. Concrete Cover - Life Safety - Full Transcription This video is about cover and concrete. Based on the American Concrete Institute recommendations for minimum cover, walls and slabs that are usually thin, there's not a lot of thickness there,
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Concrete: 7c Tiltup Concrete Concrete: 7c Tiltup Concrete - Full Transcription In this video I'd like to discuss tilt-up concrete construction. I have spoken in previous videos about precast pretension concrete and in-situ post-tension concrete. This one I'm not sure what to classify it as. It
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Concrete: 7b Prestressed Post Tensioned Concrete Concrete: 7b Prestressed Post Tensioned Concrete - Full Transcription So we talked about pre-tensioning precast concrete members now we're going to talk about pre-stressed post-tensioned concrete members that are cast in place of course we're going to start with the
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Concrete: 7a Prestressed Pretensioned Precast Concrete Concrete: 7a Prestressed Pretensioned Precast Concrete - Full Transcription Okay, in this video and the next, I would like to discuss pre-stressed concrete, both pre-tensioned and post-tensioned. Both of those are considered pre-stressed. I have some beautiful examples here for you of pre-stressed, pre-cast,
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Concrete: 7. Prestressed Concrete Pretensioned And Posttensioned Comparison Concrete: 7. Prestressed Concrete Pretensioned And Posttensioned Comparison - Full Transcription In this video I'll talk about pre-stressed concrete and that includes pretension concrete and post-tension concrete. Pre-stressing is basically placing stresses in structural members to counteract predicted stresses when
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Concrete: 5. Concrete Tests Concrete: 5. Concrete Tests - Full TranscriptionLet's talk about concrete tests that are a very important thing to understand because of the quality of the concrete, its strength and its workability. So there are tests that are done on fresh concrete such as the
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Concrete: 4b. Some Concrete Finishes Concrete: 4b. Some Concrete Finishes - Full TranscriptionSo now let's talk about finishing, surface finishing the concrete after it has been placed, vibrated, and ready to go. This is from the Morphosis Building, the Federal Building in San Francisco. It has a very
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Concrete: 4a Casting Concrete Concrete: 4a Casting Concrete - Full TranscriptionSo we're going to look at two short videos. One, the first one is about the pouring or the placing of concrete. The second one is about finishing the concrete. So let's start here. Concrete is