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An eight lane urban freeway (four lanes in each direction) is on rolling terrain and has 11-ft lanes with a 4-ft right-side shoulder. The interchange density is 1.25 per mile.
The Record-a-Song company has contracted with a rising star to record eight songs. The sizes in MB of the different songs are 8, 3, 5, 5, 9, 6, 7, and 12, respectively.
A horizontal curve on a two-lane highway (12-ft lanes) has PC at station 123 + 80 and PT at station 129 + 60. The central angle is 35 degrees, the superelevation is 0.08, and 20.6 ft is cleared (for s
Water at 20 C is proposed to be is siphoned from a reservoir as shown. Assume no losses. For d = 10 cm and D = 16 cm, determine: a. The maximum flow rate that can be achieved without cavitation occurr
A steel tape 30m long at a temperature of 65ºF when lying horizontally on the ground. Its sectional area is 0.082 cm2, its weight 2 kg and the co efficient of expansion 65 x10-7 per 1º F. th
Determine the minimum distance from the diversion that a road sign should be located informing drivers of the temporary change on the highway. The letter height on the road sign is 5 inches.
A company that manufactures regenerative thermal oxidizers made an investment 10 years ago that is now worth $1,300,000. How much was the initial investment at an interest rate of 15% per ye
An undisturbed soil sample has a dry unit weight of 112 pcf with a specific gravity of solids equals to 2.68.
A lower tank contains water while an upper tank contains air with a negligible concentration of water vapor. A tube with a circular cross section and radius 0.050 m is inserted between the two tanks.
Consider a cantilever mass-less beam subjected to a concentrated mass at the tip of the beam. Assume, length L, flexural stiffness EI, and mass m.
Coefficient of friction between the dam and foundation is 0.55. determine the factors of safety against sliding and against overturning, and also the soil pressure at the heel and toe.
A 0.24-kg ball is suspended from a string 9.79 m long and is pulled slightly to the left. As the ball swings through the lowest part of its motion it encounters a spring attached to the wall
Calculate the pore water pressure which must not be exceeded at any point in the clay layer 9 m below the surface of the embankment to ensure a shear strength of 100 kPa.
An electric motor is rated at 10 horsepower (HP) and costs $800. Its full load efficiency is specified to be 85%. A newly designed, high-efficiency motor of the same size has an efficiency of 90% but
A simple Rankine cycle uses water as the working fluid. The boiler operates at 6000 kPa and the condenser at 50 kPa. At the entrance to the turbine, the temperature is 450 degrees C.
A conical tube of length 8 m fixed vertically with its smaller end upwards. The velocity head and pressure head at upper ends are 1.27 m and 2.50 m respectively.
A direct shear test is performed on a saturated specimen of loose sand. A normal stress equal to 100 kPa is applied and a maximum shear stress of 75 kPa is measured in the shear test.
A homogeneous coarse sand deposit has a water table at 10 m depth. The water coefficient of permeability of the sand is found to vary significantly with height above the water table even though the sa
Calculate the coefficient of consolidation and the compression index of the clay. The recompression index of the clay can be taken as 10% of its compression index.
A CU triaxial test with σc = 20 psi is performed on a sand and a deviator stress of 80 psi fails the specimen. Previous tests revealed that the effective friction angle for this sand i
A dense sand has an effective friction angle of 43 and c'=0. A dry, 2.8-inch diameter sample is tested in drained triaxial shear with a confining pressure of 2500 psf. What axial load, P (i
The block W shown in figure below has a mass of 250 kg. Bar AB rests against a smooth vertical wall at end B and is supported at end A with a ball-and-socket joint.
The saturated unit weight (γsat) of the sand is 20.0 kN/m3 and the anticipated depth to water in the well during pumping is 20 m below ground surface.
Estimate the amount of carbofuran remaining at the start of the storm. Use the tabulated value of the decay constant that is based on a field study.
A rapid sand filter has a loading rate of 8.00 m/h, surface dimensions of 10 m x 8 m, an effective filtration rate of 7.70 m/h, and a production efficiency of 96 percent.