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An oil company is planning to install a new pipeline to connect storage tanks to a proccessing plant 1500m away . Both 120 mm and 180 mm pipes are being considered.
Draw the influence line for the shear in panel CD of the girder. Determine the maximum negative live shear in panel CD due to a uniform live load of 500 lb/ft action on the top beams.
If the weight causes B to be displaced downward 0.025 in., determine the strain in wires DE and BC. Also, if the wires are made of A-36 steel and have a cross-sectional area of 0.002 in^2
The CMFT has a 4000 gallon volume. What wastewater flowrate can be treated in this CMFR in order to remove 98% of the BOD5
A 1000 cubic yard embankment is to be built using soil from a borrow pit. The properties of embankment and the borrow pit soil are given below: Embankment: Dry unit weight = 115 pcf; Water content =
A 10 feet thick clay that was unsaturated with a unit weight of 108 pcf and a water content of 20% gets saturated and also swells by 20% due to rain. G=2.70.
The background concentration of atmospheric lead is 0.1 ug/m^3. During a typical hot day in Leadville the mixing height is 500m and the average wind speed is 1.9m/s.
A company near City X want's to know how much benzene they can release into River Y. City Z is 85.5 miles downstream from City X. City Z doesn't want to have Benzene levels higher than 0.0000015 g/L
Suppose the utility encourages its customers to replace their 75-W incandescents with 18-W compact fluorescent lamps (CFL) that produce the same amount of light. Over the 10,000-hr lifetime of a sin
A plug-flow reactor has a conversion of A of 90%, and the reaction is first order. If a dispersed plug-flow reactor has the same volume and has a dispersion number, D/vL of 1.0
what is the equation to get volume of cut and volume of fill if i used excel formulated , in construction methods.
A one-story, 50-m wide X 90-m long manufacturing building is to be built on a site underlain by medium dense to dense silty sand with occasional gravel. This soil probably has better than-average en
Neglecting kinetic and potential energy changes and assuming the ideal gas model determine the work developed of air flowing through the turbine
a transmission tower is held my three guy wires attached to a pin at A and anchored by bolts b c and d if the tension in wire ab is 3.6 kn determine the vertical force p exerted by the tower on the
A cattle watering has a free surface with a size equal to 0.6 m x 0.3m, with the longer side being parallel to the prevailing wind. Wind at -23 C is blowing over the surface at 1 m/s.
An offshore drilling rig is being towed out to sea. What is the maximum distance away that the navigation lights can still be seen by an observer standing at the shoreline
A young engineer is asked to design a thermal protection barrierfor a sensitive electronic device that might be exposed toirradiation from a high-powered infared laser.
A steady-state, incompressible two-dimensional velocity field (u,v) is given by the following components in the xy-plane u = 0.2 + 1.3x + 0.85y v = -0.5 + 0.95x - 1.3y
A particle has an initial speed of 27m/s. If it experiences a deceleration of (-6t)m/s^2, where t is in seconds, determine its velocity after it has traveled 10 meters. How much time does this take
The floating platform is supported at each corner by a hollow sealed cylinder 1 m in diameter. The platform itself weights 30kN is air, and each cylinder weighs 1.0kN/meter of length.
The skateboard rider leaves the ramp at A with an initial Velocity Va at a 30 degree angle. If he strikes the ground at B, determine Va and the time of the flight. x=5.1m
A 200lb homogeneous gate of 10ft width and 5ft length is hinged at point A and held in place by 12ft long brace as the bottom of the brace is moved to the right the water level remains at the top o
A classroom that normally contains 40 people is to be air conditioned with window air conditioning units of 5 kW cooling capacity. A person at rest may be assumed to dissipate heat at a rate of abou
Draw a diagram of the room with all of the important parameters noted with symboles. Write a material balance to describe the rate of change in the amount of benzene in the air of the room starting
A 0.5 m diameter concrete pipe (5.0 cm wall thickness with rigid pipe walls) carries water 600 m before discharging it into another reservoir. The surface elevation of the downstream resevoir is 55