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On this segment of freeway, the directional peak-hour volume is 3800 vehicles with 2% large trucks and 4% buses (no recreational vehicles), the peak-hour factor is 0.90, and all drivers are regular
A compressible 12-ft clay layer beneath a building is overlain by a stratum of sand and gravel and underlain by impermeable bedrock. The total expected primary consolidation settlement of the compre
A compressible clay layer 10.0m thick has an initial void ratio in situ of 1.026. Tests and computations show that the final void ratio of the clay layer after construction of a structure is 0.978.
A laboratory consolidation test was performed on a clayey soil specimen, which was drained on both top and bottom. The time for 50% consolidation was 6.2 minutes, and the specimen's thickness at 50%
If a 96-inch brick sewer (n = 0.015) is laid on a slope of 0.01% is set to be rehabilitated with GIPL (n = 0.01) that will need 2-inches all around it. How much more flow, in cfs will be attained wi
Axis Chemical Company needs you to design a gravity sewer to convey 1,750 GPM of toxic waste. The pipe is to be glass-lined reinforced concrete (n = 0.009). Which pipe would you suggest the Joker u
A MH at an intersection has an inflow from three 8-inch PVC (n = 0.01) sanitary sewer pipes laid at minimum slope converging at an intersection and one pipe taking the flow from those three further
The volume of a sphere is V=4/3pir^3. Prepare a table of volume versus radius which allows the radius to vary from 2.0 to 10.0 cm in 1 cm increments. Plot the data as a graph on log log paper showin
Compacted one cylinder of the soil describes above problem 1 to compare the new results with shown above. The data obtained included a water content of 32.5% and a total density of 121.9 pcf. Commen
A 8 inch polyethylene pipe has a flow rate of 1000 gallons/minute with a linear length of 10000ft. Starting at elevation 200ft then ends at 600ft elevation. Initial pressure is 40 psi. find the fric
5,000 gpd of primary sludge at 5% solids (50,000 mg/l) and 5,000 gpd of biological treatment sludge (10,000 mg/l) are blended, then thickened to 8% solids. What volume of supernatant is returned to
Given computer-generated direction field. Then sketch, by hand, an approximate solution curve that passes through each of the indicated points. Use different colored pencils for each solution curve.
The flow through an 8 ft. Parshall Flume is 129 cfs when Ha is 2.50 ft. Determine the downstream water level (Hb) that would produce this flowrate.
determine the width of the flume to be used such that the depth of flow immediatly upstream of the throat under design conditions is 1 m. By what percentage is the capacity of the flume reduced if t
Suppose there were reason to believe that incomes in some population were normally distributed, with a mean of $47,000 per year, and a standard deviation of $5,500 per year.
A four lane freeway (two lanes in each direction) operates at capacity during the peak hour. It has 11-ft lanes, 4-ft shoulders, and there are three ramps within three miles upstream of the segment
A bus strike will eliminate all bus traffic, but it is estimated that for each bus removed from the roadway, seven additional passenger vehicles will be added as travelers seek other means of travel
a 10.0 inch long 10-guage wire of yellow brass (E=105 GPa) is subjected to an axial tensile force of 400 lbs. Find the normal sress and deformation in the wire. A 10-guage wire has a diameter of 2.5
The traffic stream consists of cars, buses, and large trucks (no recreational vechicles). A weekday directional peak-hour volume of 1800 vehicles (familar users) is observed, with 700 arriving in th
A 3-mm thick panel (1 m x 1 m) of aluminum alloy (k = 177 W/m. K, Cp = 875 J/kg. K, and p(rho)= 2770 kg/m3) is heated in a large oven with air at T = 175oC and a convective heat transfer coefficient
determine the preassure in psi at a depth of 20 ft below the free surface of a body of water and find the absolute pressure when the barometer reads 29.9 inches of mercury.
Fluids A and B ave specific gravities .75 and 1.00 respectively. If the mercury is used as manometer liquid determine the pressure difference between A and B
The center to center spacing to the two tanks is 14 m. The new tank imparts 150 kPa at the ground surface. Find the increase in vertical stresses due to the weight of the two tanks mid- way between
One of the wells pumps at a rate of 1,240 m^3/ day. The second well pumps at 850 m^3 / day. If the aquifer has a T= 2000m^2 / day and a storage coefficient of 0.0004, when would the wells start inte
While the swing bridge is closing with a constant rotation of 0.5 rad/s, a man runs along the roadway such that when d = 10 ft he is running outward from the center at 5ft/s with an acceleration of