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    QUIZ

    Quizzical Pursuit
    —The Architecture Puzzler

    Created by Dave Guadagni

     

    Architecture Puzzler #157

    When dried from green to oven-dry, a 1-inch by 8-inch by 10-foot (25- by 200- by 3000-millimeter) board will shrink by different proportions in thickness, width, and length. Match the percentage of shrinkage to the dimension it applies to.

    (t) thickness
    (w) width
    (l) length

    a. 5 to 10 percent
    b. 0.1 to 0.2 percent
    c. 2 to 5 percent


     

    Question from Last Week:
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    Is steel in older existing structures weldable?  

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