This document provides an overview of construction materials, structures, and damage types. It aims to define construction materials and classify them, list forces that can affect materials, describe properties of concrete, steel, wood and brick, describe methods of construction, list structure types, and name collapse patterns. Specifically, it classifies materials by composition, lists tension, compression and shear as acting forces. It also describes light frame, heavy wall, heavy floor and pre-cast concrete structures, and details internal collapse patterns like pancake, lean-to and V-shape collapses.