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The end caps are spherical. The cylinder has length of 30 inc., a diameter of 8 in., and a wall thickness of 0.125 in. Determine the stress in the wall at two points A and B. For each, draw the stre
A structure is designed with a factor of safety of 5.25 psi. If the allowable stress of the structure is 3000 psi. What stress on the structure will lead to its failure
Got a dam with a 22m damwall with a 200mm valve at the bottom. The waterlevel is 20m. If I connect a cone type of reducer to reduce the outlet to say 50mm and put the turbine somewhere on the line,
The specifications for a project specify that the in-situ soil must be compacted to 98% of its maximum Modified Proctor Density. What is the range of water contents of the in-situ soil that will mee
A rectangular channel leading from an upstream lake has a bottom width of 20 ft, bottom slope of 0.0002, a Manning roughness factor of 0.016, a discharge of 403 cfs, and normal depth of 6.24 ft.
A trapezoidal channel lined with d50 = 10 cm has a bottom width of b = 1.2 m, side slopes of m = 3, and a longitudinal bottom slope of S0 = 0.008. Determine the normal depth and the Froude number fo
a 31' solid circular bar of 2" diameter is fixed to a wall. it is made of aluminum of E=10*10^6. a 30" circular solid 1" diameter aluminum bar is welded to the 2" bar at a 30" centerline perpendicul
If a sample of wood measuring 1.45" x 3.45" x 6" long has a green weight of 8.55 lb. Determine the specific gravity of this wood.
A sample of aggregates weighs 400 grams. After drying at 112oF, its weight was 398.5 grams and absorption is 10%. Determine the moisture content and the free moisture.
The width of the river is 10 ft, the depth is 1 ft, longitudinal slope of 0.001, and the Manning's coefficients is 0.03. To estimate travel times and dispersion coefficients, you injected 50 gm of r
Two materials A and B are tested and a stress-strain curve is plotted. Material B has a yield stress of 200 MPa and Material A has a Yield stress of 120 MPa. These materials have plastic Deformation
The heated water outflow from a nuclear power plant is cooled in a 50-m wide rectangular channel that has a discharge, Q = 225.0 m3/s. The Manning's n is 0.015 and the bed slope is 5.0x10-4
Four forces act on a small airplane in flight: its weight (26 kN), the thrust provided by the engine (9 kN), the lift provided by the wings (25 kN), and the drag resulting from its motion through th
A rectangular brickwork channel with width 20 ft laid on a slope 10ft/mi. What is the flow depth if the flowrate is 300vft^3/s
The distance from the point of intersection of the tangents to the PI of the second curve is 100m while the stationing of the PI of the first curve is 10+432.24.If the radius of the curveis 285.40 m
An isolated system contains an incompressible substance with heat capacity C = kT, where k is a constant. The system is initially divided in two parts, with 1/3 of the mass at T1 and 2/3 of the mass
A 60 MW Rankine steam power cycle in Iceland uses reheat. The system is comprised of a single adiabatic pump, a boiler using geothermal energy, two adiabatic turbine stages and a condenser.
A 40 kg sheave a OF RADIUS R=350 mm. and cenral radiusof gyration k=250 mm carries a 160 kg load b and is suspended by a cable and a spring of modulus k=1.2 kN/m.
A POTW facility that operates an anaerobic digestion process generates 2200 tones of waste water sludge per year. The solids content of the raw sludge is 4% by weight.
Draw the shear and bending moment diagrams for the beam AB, and determine the maximum absolute values of the shear and bending moment.
The 5.5 Mg humpback whale is stuck on the shore due to changes in the tide. In an effort to rescue the whale, a 12-Mg tugboat is used to pull it free using an inextensible rope tied to its tail.
Water flows through a 250-mm diameter steel (C=120) pipe at a a velocity, V = 1.5 m/s. Using the Hazen-Williams equation, what is the head loss due to friction per 1000 m of pipe
A 2-ft diameter circular pipe has a Manning's n of 0.013 and a bed slope of 2.0 X 10^-3. What is the uniform flow rate in this pipe if it is completely full (Qf) in ft^3/s
Knowing that the coefficents of friction between the tape and the drums are us=.40 and uk=0.30 and that drum C is free to rotate, determine the smallest allowable value of P if slipping of the tape
determine the amplification factor and the magnitude of steady state response (for deflection at A), when a horizontal force of 20Sin(8t) (N) is applied at B. (L= 250 mm, distance from center of mas