Question Bank: Important Short Questions

II. Answer the following in one or two sentences:

1. Give a list of type of bonds in brickwork.

2. State any three important salient features of English bond.

3. State any three important salient features of Flemish bond.

4. What are the two types of stone masonry?

5. Compare stone masonry and brick masonry.

6.Mention any three types of dressing of stones.

7. Name the various types of beams.

8. What are the different types of loads on a beam?

9. What is a column?

10. Classify the types of columns based on its conditions.

11. Comment on column and lintel.

12. State any three important uses R.C.C. columns.

13. What is lintel? Where do you provide it in a building?

14. Name the different types of lintels.

15. How do you classify the roofs?

16. Name the types of sloping roofs.

17. Name at least four types of steel roof trusses.

18. State any three roof covering materials.

19. Mention the various requirements of good flooring.

20. State the purpose of plastering.

21. Name the types of mortars used for plastering.