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An earthquake with a magnitude 6.5 on the Richter scale is producing a ground displacement of 50 mm at a particular location and the energy released by the earthquake is "E".
A floor slab has a fundamental bending frequency of 10Hz. A shaker is placed at the centre of the slab for a dynamic testing. The tests confirm that the slab displays a damping ratio of 2% of critic
A bridge is subjected to a load of 10,000 kN at its mid span, yielding a displacement of 5 millimetres at that location. What will be the bending stiffness of the bridge in this case (make sure the
A rod of copper alloy 50 inches long has a modulus of elasticity of 16*10^7 psi. If the maximum allowable elongation is 0.05 in, determine the diameter of the rod if it has to be subjected to a load
a. Determine the hydraulic radius, hydraulic depth, and section factors for critical and normal flows. b. Determine the alternate depth of flow that will carry the same discharge.
A flow of 0.1 cum/s flows down in a rectangular channel of width of 0.6m and having and adjustable bottom slope. If chezys constant C is 56, determine the bottom slope necessary for uniform flow wit
The pins on the frame at B and C each have a diameter of 0.25 in. If these pins are subjected to double shear, determine the average shear stress in each pin.
A well installed into a confined aquifer with a porosity of 0.3 and saturated thickness of 80 ft. The gravel pack requires a well screen slot width of 0.025 inches. The hydraulic conductivity of the
Calculate soil moisture using daily (or any other scale) precipitation and temperature . Use the Richard's Equation and Darcy's law (Or any theory you like attached to soil moisture content determin
It's proposed to have a water heater that consists of an insulated pipe of 5-cm diameter and an electric resistor inside. Cold water at 20oC enters the heating section steadily at a rate of 30L/min.
The temperature of the gas remains constant during the process. determine A.) the amount of heat transfer, B.) the final pressure in the cylinder, and C.) the distance that the piston is displayed.
A passive solar house that is losing heat is outdoors at an average rate of 50,000 kJ/h is maintained at 22oC at all times during a winter night for 10h.
The pavement structure consists of 160 mm of hot-mix asphalt (HMA), 150 mm of granular base and 450 mm of subbase placed over silty clay subgrade. The pavement is 20 years old and its current PCI is
A 12-in diameter concrete culvert (n=0.013) flows half full and is constructed on a grade of 0.5 %. What would be the expected flow velocity
A 5-m wide rectangular open channel lined with rubble masonry (n=0.025) and laid on a slope of 0.0004. If the depth of flow is 3 m, what is the rate of discharge (m3/s)
knowing that the coefficient of static friction between the collar and the rod is .35, determine the range of values of p for which equilibrium is maintained when 0=50deg and M=20Nm
Design a system to pump water 80 degrees C from a water heater to a washing system. Desired minimum flow rate is 750 Liter per min.
Suppose X is a continuous random variable with probability density function, f(x)=4x^3 for 0<x<1, f(x)=0 for x elsewhere. a)find find E(X) b)find the medium of X,the 50th percentile
Consider a 2014-T6 aluminum alloy the S-N behavior. A cylindrical rod of diameter 13.2 mm fabricated from this alloy is subjected to repeated tension-compression loading along its axis.
A 10 ft layer of normally consolidated saturated clay is found at depth of 20 ft beneath a formation of partially saturated sandy silt with unit weight of 115 lb/ft cubed. Void ratio of the clay is
A hydraulic jump forms in a horizontal trapezoidal channel. The base width is 4m and the side slopes are 45o. The depths upstream and downstream of the jump are 1m and 3m.
a vertical 12-cm diameter piston-cylinder device contains an ideal gas at the ambient conditions of 1 bar and 24 degrees C. Initially, the inner face of the piston is 20 cmfrom the base of the cylin
Water flows from a large open tank through a sharp edged entrance and into a galvanized iron pipe of a length 1.5 miles and diameter of 4 inches. The water exits the pipe as a free jet at a distance
The 24-in pipe leads from a reservoir (flush entrance), and the 18-in pipe discharges into the air at a point 15 ft lower than the reservoir water surface level. Assuming all changes in section to b
A pipeline 900 ft long discharges freely at a point 200 ft lower than the water surface at intake. The pipe intake projects into the reservoir. The first 600 ft is of 10-in diameter, and the remaini