MSTC TERMS

Every construction project shall have a suitable _______, which must be in accordance with these rules, and other orders and issuances by the DOLE.

Construction Safety and Health Program

The process of injecting any agent into soil or rock to increase its strength or stability, protect foundations or reduce ground water

Grouting

An increase in soil density of a cohesive soil resulting from the explosion of water from the soils void spaces

Consolidation

A measure of materials ability to resist indentation or penetration

Hardness

The basic lane with appropriate for national road.

3.35m

The berth structure projecting out from thee shoreline

Pier

Signs used to guide drivers through a change in horizontal alignment of the road.

Chevron Signs

What are the capacity requirements for all scaffoldings

At least 4 times of its own weight.

Operating a motor vehicle on a street or highway can be complex and demanding at times, but it can be boring at other times, these range of circumstances coupled with the range of driver capabilities presents a challenge to the highway designer. It is helpful to bein by considering the three essential elements such s navigation, guidance and control is referred to as:

Driving Task

A method of protecting employees from cave-ins from material that could fall or roll from an excavation face or into an excavation or collapses adjacent structures. This includes supports systems, sloping and benching systems, shiels systems and other systems that provide the necessary protection.

Protective System

The bucket volume contained within the bucket when following the outline of the bucket sides is referred to as:

Plate Line Capacity

Signs that informed road users about the direction and distance of destination on the route they are following r along other roads that intersect their route.

Guide Signs

It provides that detailed requirements for the materials, equipment and workmanship to be incorporated into the project

Specifications

If you are preparing a report on PERT CPM network in a construction job, what time scheduling should you consider in the preparation of the PERT CPM network diagram

Pessimistic, Optimistic and Probable Time

It is the measures of a material’s ability to dissipate or deaden mechanical vibrations

Damping Capacity

This drawing has elevetion as its vertical axis and horizontal distance as measured along the center line of the facility (or other reference line), as its horizontal axis

Profile

A formal or legally binding agreement between two parties is referred to as:

Contract

It is an informal group discussions that focuses in a particular safety issue. These can be used daily to promote department safety culture as well as to facilitate health and safety discussions on job sites is known as

Toolbox Meeting

It occurs after the completion of construction, and the resolution of the majority of punch list and commissioning issues.

Profile

Because concrete is unable to maintain a particular shape before it sets. It must be placed in a form or mold. In building constructions, this is called

Formwork

A method of protecting workers from cave-ins by excavating the sided of an excavation to form one or a series of horizontal level or steps usually with a vertical or near vertical surfaces between levels.

Benching

This reason will not cause a contract change

Unforeseen Conditions

If the standard deviation of a set of observations is zero

That all observations are the same value

Waves are formed by the frictional drag of wind across the water surface. This a process of transferring energy from wind to water. Water particles are moved from their position by the wind, and them returned to the original position by gravity. These waves are called:

Gravity waves

An application of hot bitumen material given to the old surface to provide adhesion to the old and new road surface is referred to as:

Tack Coat

When train passes on curves, which have no super-elevatio. It will give thrust on the

Inner side of the outer rail

Which of the following is used in determination of the Critical Path Method

Network

The change of probability that a person will be harmed or experience an adverse health effect if exposed to a hazard

Risk

What is the single most important environmental effect factor consideration in coastal engineering

Coastal Erosion

This type of control on the object on the jib site is commonly identified as primary, secondary, and working.

Horizontal Control

It is the maximum number of vehicles, passenger, or the like, which can be accommodated by a given facility or system under given conditions at a given level of service

Volume

Waves which fall forward since the forward velocity of the crest exceed the velocity of propagation of the wave itself. In deep water, this normally occurs when the wave velocity L is less than 7 times the wave height.

Breaking Waves

It is the primary consideration in the design of geometric cross section for highways, runways and taxu ways.

Drainage

The ratio of the wave height to its wave length is called

Steepness

What is the meaning of MLLW

Mean Lower Low Water

What is not a characteristics of contour

Contours on the ground can cross another

What is the standard sign shape which is generally used for guide signs?

Rectangle

What percentage of the side of the water level which is safe to ships depth of berth?

98%

It is the maximum number of vehicles, which have a reasonable expectation of passing over a given section of a lane or a roadway in one directions or in both directions during one hour under prevailing road and traffic conditions

Road Capacity

Two angles whose sum is 360 degrees

Conjugate Angles

Any source of potential damage, harm or adverse health effects on something or someone is called

Hazard

Basic concept for design in construction is called

Design of structure

Which of the following best describes on the determination of the traffic capacity

Density

How do you test the relative consistency of concrete

Slump Test

Most important process to prepare concrete

Batching

What is the bulk composition of the concrete?

Portland Cement, Water, and Aggregates

Wearing way of the pavement surface caused by the dislodging of aggregated particles and binder. This is usually result of insufficient asphalt binder in the mix of asphalt from particles of aggregates

Raveling

Cracks approximately at a right angles to the pavement centerline, these may be caused by shrinkage or differential thermal stress pf the asphalt concrete or may be reflective cracks

Transverse Cracking

Owing to retardation of the tidal wave in the ocean by frictional force, as the earth revolves daily around its axis and as the tide tends to follow the direction of the moon, the highest tide for each location is mot coincident which conjunction and opposition but occurs at some constant time after new and full moon. This interval which may amount to as much as two and half days is known as:

Age of Tides

Messages when painted on pavement should be limited to how many words only

3 words or less

What are the four types of pavement and curve markings?

Longitudinal lines, transverse lines, other lines and other markings

A continuous structure built parallel to along the margins of the sear or alongside river banks, canals or waterways where vessels may lie along side to receive or discharge or disembark passengers or lie at rest.

Wharf

It is defined as the number of vehicle per unit distance occupying a section of roadway at a given instant in time, and is usually measured in vehicles per mile or per kilometer

Density

Wave at a point where the water depth is equal to ½ the wavelength or greter to be expressed in terms of the parameters of significant waves

Deep Water Wave

An experiment consists of selecting three items from a box or several items. The three items are classified defective (D) or no-defective (N) as they are selected. Give the sample space for this experiment. Which outcomes are in the events A,B,C where A is exactly one defective?

DNN, NDN, NND

They are normally parabolas centered about the point of intersection of the vertical tangents they join

Vertical Curve

What is the least number of links that must be disengaged from a 23-link chain so that any number of links from 1 to 23 can be obtained by taking one or more of the pieces

4

This should always be shown on site plans for orientation purposes. Displaying it prominently is the standard practice

North Directions

A wave generated in deep water, when reaching shoaling waters, changes not only in its height but also in its length but the period will

Align the hour hand with the sun’s azimuth and south will be midway between the hour hand and 12

It inform and advise road users of directions, distances, routes, the location of services for road users and point of interests

Guide Signs

Any structure built into the sea but not parallel to the coast line and include any stage, stair landing place, landing state jetty, floating barge or pontoon any bridge or other works conneccted therewith

Pier

The expression (Xt-X) is defined to be absolute error in X, where Xt is the true value of a quantity and X is the measure value or value store in a computer. If the true value of a quantity is 3.5 and the absolute error must be less than 0.05, find the acceptable measured values.

3.45< xx <3.55

In the measure of congestion of highway capacity, what will happen as the density continues to increase

The point is reached at which speeds declines noticeably

A wave generated in deep water, when reaching shoaling water, changes not only in its height but also in its length but the period will

Remain constant

Players A and B match pennies N times. They keep a tally of their gains and losses After the first toss, what is the chance that at no time during the game will they be even?

[Nn]/2 raised to N

When directly generated and affected by local winds, a wind wave systems is called

Wind Sea

What is the process of proportioning cement, water, aggregated and additive prior to mixing concrete called

Batching

A maximum wave height can wave period of the maximum wave height in wave train

Highest Wave

Device mounted on a fixed support (permanent signs) or portable support (temporary signs) whereby a specific message is conveyed by means of words or symbols placed or erected.

Traffic Signs

What is the reaction time to be used for the road safety designs? This value is applied to the whole range of design speeds?

2.5 seconds

It is measure of materials ability to withstand cyclic (repeated) stresses. When repeatedly stressed, even at stresses below yield strength many materials will fracture without warning

Fatigue Resistance

It is the manner of moving a straight edge back and forth with saw-like motion across the top of the forms

Screeding

In a horizontal angle layout, this is a procedure that involves turning the angle twice and making the line of sight each time at the point. if the two lines result, an average is established to create the line. Typically it is not used on every point, it is used on the critical points as needed.

Double Centering

This is a source or situation with a potential cause to harm in terms of injury, ill health, damage to property, damage to the environment or a combination of these

Hazard

What is the color of the loading and unloading zone marking?

Red

Every construction project shall have a suitable Construction Safety and Health Program, which must be in accordance with these rules, and other orders and issuance issued by the DOLE. It is a human action that deviates form a commonly accepted safe procedure or standard operations that could permit an occurrence of an accident

Risk

An open water of navigable depth is called

Fairway

It is a type of thermoplastic lane marking. Designed to aid and provide motorist with visual, audio and motion warning on the road

Rumble Strips

It is nothing more than a column driven into the soil to support a structure by transferring building loads to a deeper and stronger layers of soil or rock

Piles

If it is considered to be the basic unit of travel behavior. It is also involve movement from single origin to a single destination and are usually described in terms of their origins, destination, purposes, time of occurrence, travel modes and routes

Trip

It represents the component of vehicle weight which acts parallel to an inclined surface

Grade Resistance

It is described as the expected number of production

Mean

When inside the building, one may notice unusual sounds and change in the building. What causes these events?

Temperature

What is the ideal capacity of the road in vehicles per hour?

2000

The process of providing the required water and maintaining a favorable temperature for a period of time after placing concrete is referred to as:

Curing

Are written instructions detailing how the facility is to be constructed

Specifications

It is the difference between the actual travel time and a given segment of a transportation systems and some ideal travel time for that segment

Delay

The breakage, displacement, or permanent deformation of a structural member or connection to reduce its structural integrity and its supportive capabilities

Failure

What is the maximum distance, as specified in the construction contract, that the contractor is expected to transport soil material without receiving additional payment?

Free-haul Distance

If the speed of the car increase by 50%, by what factor will its minimum breaking distance be increased, assuming all else is the same? Ignore the drivers reaction time

2.25

It refers to any person engaged by any contractor, trained, accredited by DOLE and tasked to provide occupational safety and health services for the workers/employees in any construction project

Safety Personnel

Type of pavement distress affecting Portland cement concrete due to elevation differences between adjacent slabs and transverse joints.

Faulting

This refers to the maximum number of passenger cars that can pass a given point on a lane or roadway during one hour under the most nearly ideal roadway and traffic conditions which can possibly be attained

Possible Capacity

A property of concrete mix referring to ease and homogeneity when using it

Workability

In the design of ports and harbor facilities, seismic effects must be taken into consideration. If A is the dead weight, B is the surcharge and C is the seismic coefficient, determine the seismic force using the seismic coefficient method.

(A + B) C

Line that intersects a circle at two points

Secant

Touches the circle at one point.

Tangent

A line segment whose endpoints lie on the circle.

Chord

The configuration and roughness of the ground is referred to as

Topography

The area bounded by two concentric circles is called

Annulus