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A saturated clay deposit is vane-tested in-situ. A torque of 30Nm is required to shear the clat. The vane is 40mm wide by 100mm long. What is the undrained shear strength of the clat in kPa
A river is 6m deep. The riverbed material has a saturated unit weight of 19.5kN/m3. What is the effective vertical stress 12m below the water surface. Assume the water is static and assume a datum a
A frictionless piston-cylinder contains 2kg of nitrogen at 100 kPa absolute and 300 deg K. The system is compressed polyprotically at a 1.4 exponent (n) until the nitrogen reaches a final temperatur
A room 4x5x6 meter is heated by a baseboard resistance heater. We want the heater to raise the room temperature from 7 to 23 deg C in 15 minutes. There are no heat losses from the room, and specific
The solids in a specimen have a specific gravity of 2.65. If the oven-dry mass of the specimen is 25kg, what is the volume of the solids in it
Soil has been compacted in an earth dam to a bulk density of 2.2 Mg/m3 and a water content of 9.5%. The value of Gs is 2.6. Would it be possible to compact the above soil at a water content of 13.5% t
What is the dry unit weight, the saturated unit weight, and the buoyant unit weight, of a soil having a ratio of 0.5 and a value of Gs of 2.7
a whirlpool is modeled as the combination of a free and a forced vortex. the maximum velocity in the whirlpool is 10 m/s, and the radius at the juncture of the free and the forced vortex is 10m.
the wind reaches a speed of 27.8 m/s in a storm. calculate the force acting on a 1m x 2m window facing the storm. the window is in a high-rise building. the air density p= 1.2 kg/m3.
The azimuth from station A of a link traverse to an azimuth mark is 212o 12' 36". The azimuth from the last station of the traverse to an azimuth mark is 192o 12' 15". Angles to the right are observ
The river flow at an upstream gauging station is measured to be 1500 m3/s, and at another gauging station 3 km downstream, the discharge is measured to be 750 m3/s at the same instant of time.
Heat is transferred to the water such that the temperature in the tank remains constant. Determine the amount of heat that must be transferred by the time one half of the total mass has been withdra
For the following waste and river characteristics just upstream from the outfall, find the minimum downstream DO that could be expected
over the range of cylindrical parts manufactured on a computer-controlled lathe, the standard deviation of the diameters is 0.002 millimeter/ (a) what does Chebyshe's theorem tell us about the proba
Suppose that the probabilities are , respectively , 0.6, 0.2, 0.1 and 0.1 that an income tax form will be filled out correctly , that it will contain an error favoring a taxpayer , that it will cont
the If the probability that fluorecent light has a useful life of at least 500 hours is 0.85, find the probabilities that among 20 such lights (a) 18 will have a useful life of at least 500 hours;
The cash flow of alternatives J and K is shown below. If the interest rate is 10% per year, which alternative should be selected. Perform a Present Worth analysis.
The cost of extending a certain road is $850,000. Resurfacing and other maintenance are expected to cost $175,000 every 3 years and lasts for 96 years. What is the present worth of the road at an in
What is the equivalent amount in year 10 of an expenditure of $5,000 in year one, $8,000 in year two, and increasing by $1,000 per year through year 10 Assume the interest rate is 10% per year.
If a company wants to have $100,000 in a contingency fund 10 years from now, the amount the company must deposit each year in years 1 through 5, at an interest rate of 10% per year, is
A torque of magnitude T = 1000Nm is applied at D as shown. Knowing that the diameter of shaft AB is 56 mm and that the diameter of shaft CD is 42 mm, determine the maximum shearing stress in (a) sha
convert the azimuths from north to bearings, and compute the angles, smaller than 180 degrees between successive azimuths 68o06'42", 133o15'56", 217o44'05", 320o35'18"
A weightless piston is placed on the liquid surface and the water level stabilizes (also in the small tube) to a level of h. Next, a weight of 10 kg is placed on the piston causing the liquid in the
Route 1 has a free flow travel time of 4 mintutes and travel time increases by 3 minutes and for each additonal 1000 vehicle in flow, and route 2 has a free flow travel time of "b" minutes and trave
The water table is 7m below the surface of the sand. The saturated unit weight of the sand is 19kN/m3 and that of the clay 20kN/m3; the unit weight of the sand above the water table is 16kN/m3.