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This document contains questions from various engineering disciplines including mathematics, surveying, transportation engineering, hydraulics, geotechnical engineering, and structural design. Specifically, it includes questions about: calculating slopes, geometric progressions, logarithms, traffic accidents, sight distances, flywheel velocities, thermal expansion, compound curves, weirs, fluid flow, permeability, soil compaction, steel pipe stresses, shape factors, and other structural design concepts. The document tests knowledge across a wide range of civil and mechanical engineering topics.

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Math

This document contains questions from various engineering disciplines including mathematics, surveying, transportation engineering, hydraulics, geotechnical engineering, and structural design. Specifically, it includes questions about: calculating slopes, geometric progressions, logarithms, traffic accidents, sight distances, flywheel velocities, thermal expansion, compound curves, weirs, fluid flow, permeability, soil compaction, steel pipe stresses, shape factors, and other structural design concepts. The document tests knowledge across a wide range of civil and mechanical engineering topics.

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Math, Surveying and Transportation Engineering

1. The slope of the curve x=6y3 – 2y2 at (6, 3) is equal to:

2. Find the sum of the geometric progression 2x, 4x+14, 20x- 14 …. Up to the 10 th term.

3. The log of the product MN is equal to 1.62324929 and the log of the quotient M/N is equal to -0.066946789. Find the value
of N.

4. The log of the product MN is equal to 1.62324929 and the log of the quotient M/N is equal to -0.066946789. Find the value
of N.

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6. Data on a traffic accident recorded on a certain intersection for the past 5 years has an accident rate of 4160 per million
entering vehicles (ARMV). If the average daily traffic entering the intersection is 504, find the total number of accidents during
the 5 year period.

7. A vertical sag curve has a descending grade of -1.7% and an ascending grade of +2.3%. If the sag curve ahs a length of 135
m., compute the length of the sight distance?

8. The angular speed of a flywheel having a diameter of 6m. is 20 rpm. Compute its tangential velocity.

9. A tape has a standard length at 20°C. was measured at a temperature of 3°C. coefficient of thermal expansion is 0.0000116
m./ °C and its true horizontal length is 865.30 m, what is the measured length?

10. Given a compound curve with I1 = 28°, I2 = 31°, D1 = 3°, D2 = 4°. Compute the stationing of the P.C.C. if P.I. is at station 30 +
120.5

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11. If the discharge over a 45° triangular weir is 0.021 m3/sec. What is the head if C = 0.594?

12. A vertical jet of water thru a nozzle supports a load of 150 N. The velocity and diameter of the jet at the nozzle tip are 17.46
m/s and 3 cm. Find the distance of load from the nozzle tip in meters.

13. A fluid flows through a 1000m. long and 12 mm. diam. glass tube. In 2 minutes 0.015 m 3. of fluid passes through the tube.
If head loss is 0.20 meter, what is the Reynolds Number. Assume laminar flow.

14. If the maximum flow in a 5 meter wide rectangular channel is 10 cu.m./sec. what is the critical velocity in m/sec 2. Use g =
9.81 m/sec2.

15. In a flow net construction of determining seepage flow, the paths along which water can flow through a cross-section are
called:
a) Equipotential lines
b) Flow lines
c) Flow diagrams
d) Flow nets

16. A pressure gauge at elevation 12m at the side of a tank which contains liquid reads 100KPa. Another
gauge at elevation 7m reads 140KPa on the same side of the tank. Determine the specific gravity of the
fluid.

17. A glass cylinder 5cm internal diameter and with a screen at the bottom was used as a falling-head
permeameter. The thickness of the sample was 10cm with the water level in the tube at the start of the
test as 50cm above the tail water, it dropped by 10cm in 1m. The tail water level remaining unchanged.
Calculate the value of hydraulic conductivity in mm/s for the sample of the soil.

18.The laboratory test generally used to obtain the maximum dry unit weight of
compaction and the optimum moisture content is called the ______________.

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Struct Design

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1) Which of the following gives the fixed end moment at B due to the concentrated
load in kN.m.
2) Which of the following most nearly gives the distribution factor at B for the
member AB in %
3) Which of the following most nearly gives the moment at B.

22. A pipe with inside diameter of 124mm and outside diameter of 168mm and unsupported length of
2.165m is a top chord of a truss. Determine its slenderness ratio if effective length factor k=1.0

23. A steel pipe 1.50m in diameter and 9.53mm thick contains a fluid pressure of 1241.1 kPa. Given that
steel has poisson’s ratio of 0.25 and E=200000MPa. Determine the increase in the diameter in mm of
this pipe due to the hoop and longitudinal stresses.

24. Determine the shape factor along the stronger axis of a built-up section in the shape of an I-Beam.
The section properties are as follows:

d=500m

tf =22mm

bf =300mm

tw = 16mm

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