Question of The Week 6/18/17

Good afternoon all, and welcome to another round of Question of The Week.

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.

Questions:

**1. Identify the correct definition of Ductility. **

A. Ductility is similar to the concept of support, except that connection refers to
B. A system of forces composed of two equal forces of opposite direction, offset by
C. Bending deformation, i.e., deformation by increasing curvature.
D. Ductility generally refers to the amount of inelastic deformation which a

**2. Match the definition below with the correct term: **

______ occurs in loosely packed saturated sand when seismic shaking compacts the sand, resulting in increased pressure in the surrounding water. The pressure in the water can rise to the point where it carries all the stress in the soil, so the sand grains carry no net pressure and can flow past one another.

A. Dissipation
B. Liquefaction
C. Saturation
D. Indemnification

3. The Process of filling hollow spaces of walls before plastering, is known as:

a. hacking
b. dubbing out
c. blishering
d. peeling
e. all the above

**4. Pick up the correct statement from the following: **

a. The bearing capacity of a pile is defined as the load which can be sustained by the pile without producing excessive settlement
b. The ultimate bearing capacity of a pile is defined as the maximum load which the pile carries and continues to sink without any further increases of load
c. The safe bearing capacity of a pile is obtained by dividing the ultimate bearing capacity with a suitable factor of safety
d. The safe bearing capacity of a pile is obtained by dividing the ultimate bearing capacity with a suitable factor of safety
e. All the above.

B
a
a

C
c
b
a

Although question 1 was on the right track in answer D but the sentence was not complete.

D
b
b
e

William Wins.
Congratulations.
You know the drill to get your books.
Enjoy

Thanks Marcel.

I enjoy and look forward to the QOTW.

Thanks for keeping it going.

Bill

You have a couple more wins to go for the year. :wink:

Great questions.

Congrats William! Answers with in complete sentences?

The complete sentence made it too easy.

Ductility: Ductility generally refers to the amount of inelastic deformation which a material or structure experiences before complete failure. Quantitatively, ductility can be defined as the ratio of the total displacement or strain at failure, divided by the displacement or strain at the elastic limit.