Introduction of Building Material

1.  What are the main types of building material?

2.  List at least ten basic building materials? How are they made and where are they used?

Rocks and Stones

1.  Define stone?

2.  Define rock?

3.  What are the different properties of rocks?

4.  Name the three classification of rock based on geological formation?

5.  Name the three classification of rock based on physical characteristics?

6.  Name the three classification of rock based on chemical characteristics?

7.  What are igneous rocks? Give some examples?

8.  What are sedimentary rocks?

9.  What are metamorphic rocks?

10.  What is the difference between stratified and un-stratified rocks?

11.  What are foliated rocks?

12.  Why is seasoning of stone important?

13.  Give any six important properties of a good stone?

14.  What are the different uses of stone? List the type of stones used for each purpose?

15.  Stones and Rocks – Quarrying and Dressing

  1. What are the different methods of quarrying stones? Explain any two of them in detail?
  2. What are the different processes involved in the different methods of quarrying?
  3. What is meant by dressing of stones? Why is it important?
  4. What are the different operations involved in blasting of stone?
  5. What are the different uses of stone?

16.  Give any five important reasons for the deterioration of stones?

17.  Name the different methods of stone preservation?

18.  What is the difference between terrazzo and mosaic?

19.  What is meant by stone veneering?

Clay brick and clay products

1.  What are the two types of bricks?

2.  What are the main ingredients in clay?

3.  What are adobe bricks?

4.  What is meant by winning of clay?

5.  Manufacture of bricks

  1. Name the different process in the manufacture of bricks?
  2. What are the different processes involved in the preparation of raw materials?
  3. Briefly explain the different process in the manufacture of bricks?
  4. What is the use of a pug-mill?
  5. What is difference in the use of a crusher and grinder?
  6. What is the difference between the hand-made bricks and machine made bricks?

6.  What is the difference between nominal size and architectural size of a brick?

7.  What are the five main forms of bricks?

8.  Illustrate any four properties of bricks?

9.  What is the difference between perforated bricks and Hollow bricks?

10.  Brick Bonds for walls and pavements

  1. Name any 5 types of brick bonds used for walls?
  2. Explain with sketch the five types of brick bonds used for walls?
  3. Name any three types of brick bonds used for pavements?
  4. Explain the three types of brick bonds used for pavements with sketches?

11.  What is meant by rat trap bond?

12.  What are the four types of ceramic products? Explain each of them?

13.  What is meant by glazing? How is it done?

14.  What are the different types of ceramic tiles used in the building industry?

Concrete and concrete products

1.  What is concrete composed of?

2.  What is a mortar? Where is it used? How is it made?

3.  What is plaster? What are the three types of plaster?

4.  What is Plaster of Paris? How is it made?

5.  What is lime plaster? How is it made?

6.  What is cement plaster? How is it made?

7.  How is Portland cement made?

8.  Explain the manufacture of Portland cement, using sketches?

9.  What is hydration?

10.  What is fine aggregate?

11.  What is coarse aggregate?

12.  What is grading of aggregates? Explain by sketches?

13.  What are the common types of admixtures used? Explain its function?

14.  Types of Concrete (Three points on each)

  1. Regular concrete
  2. High strength concrete
  3. Stamped concrete
  4. Vaccum concrete
  5. Shotcrete
  6. Pervious concrete
  7. Cellular concrete
  8. Glass concrete
  9. Asphalt concrete
  10. Geo-polymer concrete

15.  What are Concrete blocks?

Wood and wood products

1.  What is wood? What are the two types of wood used for building construction?

2.  Why is wood preferred over other building materials?

3.  What are the different uses of wood?

4.  What are the two types of trees?

5.  What is the difference between endogenous tree and exogenous tree? Are conifers exogenous or endogenous?

6.  What is the importance of annual rings?

7.  What are the characteristics of a good timber?

8.  What is seasoning? What is the importance (objective) of seasoning in stone?

9.  Seasoning of wood

  1. What are the two main methods of seasoning? Explain them?
  2. What are the different methods of artificial seasoning of wood? Explain any two of them in detail?

10.  Defects in timber

  1. What are the main defects in timber? Explain with sketches any five of them?
  2. What the two main diseases of timber? Explain any one of them in detail?

11.  Wood products

  1. Name any five wood products?
  2. Explain any three of them in detail with sketches?

12.  What is meant by veneers?

13.  What is meant by plywood?

14.  What is meant by fibre board?

15.  What is meant by particle board?

16.  What is meant by block board?

17.  What is the difference between plywood and block wood?

Metals and metal products

1.  What are the two types of metals? Give examples of each?

2.  Name any two iron ores from which iron is obtained?

3.  How is pig iron manufactured?

4.  What are the properties of pig iron? Where is it used?

5.  How is cast iron manufactured?

6.  What are the properties of cast iron? Where is it used?

7.  What are the properties of wrought iron? Where is it used?

8.  Why is steel the best metal for construction purpose?

9.  Name the different methods (process) of manufacture of steel?

10.  How is steel manufactured?

11.  What are the properties and uses of steel?

12.  What are the different types of rolled steel sections? Explain with sketches?

13.  What is reinforced steel ?

14.  What is rusting and corrosion?

15.  How do you protect steel from rusting and corrosion?

16.  What is galvanizing?

17.  What is enameling?

18.  What are non-ferrous metals? Why are they less famous?

19.  Name the process by which aluminium is manufactured?

20.  How is aluminum manufactured?

21.  What are the properties of aluminium?

22.  What are the uses of aluminium?

23.  Name one alloy of aluminium commonly used in building construction?

PART C

  1. Manufacture of bricks

a.  Name the different process in the manufacture of bricks?

b.  What are the different processes involved in the preparation of raw materials?

c.  Briefly explain the different process in the manufacture of bricks?

d.  What is the use of a pugmill?

e.  What is difference in the use of a crusher and grinder?

f.  What is the difference between the hand made bricks and machine made bricks?

  1. Brick Bonds for walls and pavements

a.  Name any 5 types of brick bonds used for walls?

b.  Explain with sketch the five types of brick bonds?

c.  Name any three types of brick bonds used for pavements?

d.  Explain the three of them using sketches?

  1. Different forms of bricks
  2. Name the different forms of brick?
  3. Explain with sketches any three of them?

2.  Stones and Rocks – Quarrying and Dressing

a.  What are the different methods of quarrying stones? Explain any two of them in detail?

b.  What re the different processes involved in the quarrying of stone?

c.  What is meant by dressing of stones? Why is it important?

d.  What are the different operations involved in blasting of stone?

e.  What are the different uses of stone?

3.  Seasoning of wood

a.  What are the two main methods of seasoning? Explain them?

b.  What are the different methods of artificial seasoning of wood? Explain any two of them in detail?

4.  Defects in timber

a.  What are the main defects in timber? Explain with sketches any five of them?

b.  What the two main diseases of timber? Explain any one of them in detail?

5.  Wood products

a.  Name any five wood products?

b.  Explain any three of them in detail with sketches?

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