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d. 45 kN d. 36.45°
HYDRAULICS AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
INSTRUCTION: Select the best answer for each of the following questions. Mark only one answer 14. Compute the angle of failure
for each item by shading the box corresponding to the letter of your choice on the answer sheet 9. If the point of contra flexure is 10
m from the bottom of the pile cap, plane envelope.
provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURE ALLOWED. Use pencil No.1 only
determine the maximum moment in a. 61.84°
pile D. b. 54.56°
PROBLEM #1: PROBLEM #5: c. 45.25°
A container 10 m wide and 10 m long A block of wood floats in water with 20 a. 50 kN.m
b. 60 kN.m d. 68.45°
contains water 2 m high and is cm projecting above water surface.
accelerating to the right at a rate of When placed in oil (s.g = 0.85), the c. 40 kN.m
d. 20 kN.m 15. Compute the major principal
2.45 m/s2. Find the minimum pressure block projects 14 cm above the oil stress.
at the base. surface. Determine the length of the a. 14 147.77 psi
a. 5.65 kPa wood. SITUATION II: b. 12 146.57 psi
b. 8.45 kPa a. 0.84 m c. 13 145.87 psi
c. 7.37 kPa b. 0.54 m Water flows from an upper reservoir to
a lower one while passing a turbine as d. 11 149.27 psi
d. 9.14 kPa c. 0.80 m
d. 1.20 m shown in figure H02-4.
10. Compute the total head loss due SITUATION IV:
PROBLEM #2: The jets from a garden sprinkler one
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A flow rate of 2 m /s is to be carried in PROBLEM #6: to friction when the discharge is 150
lit/s. inch in diameter are normal to 2 ft
an open channel at a velocity of 1.3 A very wide sluice gate as shown in radius as shown in figure H02-5 . The
m/s. Determine the required slope if figure H02-2 admits water to a a. 4.25 m
b. 3.84 m pressure at the base of the nozzle is
the cross section is rectangular with horizontal channel. Compute the 60 psi .Cc = 1.0 , Cv = 0.80.
base equal to twice the depth. discharge per meter when y = 1 m. c. 5.67 m
3 d. 2.54 m 16. What is the velocity of the jet?
n = 0.020. a. 8.45 m /s a. 75.54 ft/s
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a. 0.00203 b. 8.0 m /s b. 57.78 ft/s
b. 0.0014 c.
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7.86 m /s 11. Find the velocity of water.
a. 2.05 m/s c. 87.34 ft/s
c. 0.0060 d. 7.25 m3/s d. 45.67 ft/s
d. 0.0017 b. 4.12 m/s
SITUATION I: c. 3.06 m/s
d. 6.57 m/s 17. Compute the force acted by
PROBLEM #3: each jet on the nozzle.
One line of rigid piles supporting a
A triangular dam whose height is 24 m a. 50.21 lbs
dock as shown in figure H02-3 is 12. Find the power input of the
has a base of 12 m. The water level at b. 70.12 lbs
acted by vertical concentrated load turbine.
the vertical face of the dam is 20 m. c. 65.12 lbs
including its self weight. It is a. 213.5 kW
Compute the location of vertical d. 60.32 lbs
considered that rigid piles are fixed at b. 210.6 kW
reaction from the heel of the dam.
20 m below the pile cap. c. 115.2 kW
a. 7.86 m 18. What force must be applied on
7. Compute the shear force in each d. 356.2 kW
b. 8.6 m each sprinkler pipe 1ft from the center
c. 4.2 m pile. of rotation to maintain equilibrium?
d. 9.3 m
a. 5 kN SITUATION III: a. 145.78 lbs
b. 3 kN In a tri –axial compression test of b. 184.56 lbs
c. 3.5 kN cohesion less sample, it was found out c. 130.56 lbs
PROBLEM #4: d. 120.64 lbs
d. 2 kN that the sample failed at shearing
Compute the vertical component of
resultant force per meter width of the stress of 4200 psi and normal stress
of 6300 psi. SITUATION V:
tainter gate shown in figure H02-1 . 8. Compute the maximum axial In the figure H02-6, the connecting
a. 64 kN 13. Compute the angle of internal
load in pile D. friction. pipe is 60 mm in diameter. The fluid
b. 32 kN
a. 33.69° has density ρ = 917 kg/m3 and
c. 48 kN a. 30 kN
b. 24.56° viscosity μ = 0.29 Pa-sec.
d. 29 kN b. 60 kN
c. 25 kN c. 45.25°

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19. Compute the head loss due to 1000 m. The diameters of pipes are
friction. 0.6 m and 0.45 m respectively. The 200 kN 1ft
20 kN
a. 7.22 m gage pressure at B(the suction side of ΔH F
b. 6.56 m the pump) is -64 kPa. Neglect minor 1 inch φ
c. 8.34 m losses. 6 m 6m
10m
d. 5.23 m 25. The velocity of water in pipe AB. P = 60 psi
17m

contra flexure
a. 2.297 m/s 2 ft
20. Compute the velocity of flow in b. 3.242 m/s

Point of
the pipe. c. 1.452 m/s Figure H02-5
a. 0.607 m/s d. 2.672 m/s
b. 0.505 m/s 3m
A B C D
c. 0.234 m/s 26. The velocity of water pipe CD.
ANSWER KEY:
d. 0.304 m/s a. 1.23 m/s 12 m 12 m 12 m
b. 3.56 m/s
Figure H02-3
21. Compute the Reynolds number. c. 4.08 m/s 1. C 11. C 21. C
a. 105 d. 5.34 m/s 2. A 12. B 22. C
b. 505 3. A 13. A 23. D
c. 96 27. The discharge of the pipe from A 4. B 14. A 24. D
d. 125 to B due to pumping. 5. B 15. A 25. A
a.
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0.65 m /s 15 m 200kPag 6. B 16. A 26. C
SITUATION VI: b.
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0.85 m /s 7. A 17. D 27. A
The total weight of soil sample is 56.7 c. 0.45 m3/s 60 mmφ 8. B 18. D 28.
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lb and the total volume is 0.5 ft . The d.
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0.25 m /s L = 50 m 9 A 19. A 29.
oven dried weight is 48.7 lb. Specific 10. B 20. B 30.
Figure H02-6
gravity of soil is 2.69.
22. Which of the following gives the
dry unit weight of the sample? el.197m
a. 115.56 pcf
150 lit/s
b. 103.55 pcf
c. 97.42 pcf 6m Cc = 0.85 D = 250
d. 123.5 pcf Cv = 0.95 mm
L = 100 m el.50m
y C = 120 150 lit/s
23. Which of the following gives the
porosity of the sample?
Figure H02-2 Figure H02-4
a. 0.231
b. 0.623
c. 0.742 A
D
d. 0.419
6m
0.45 mφ
24. Which of the following gives the LCD = 1000m
B 6m 60o
degree of saturation of the sample? B C
f = 0.02 O
Pump
a. 57.9% 6m
b. 86.3% ZP = 5 m
0.6 mφ C
c. 67.8% A
LAB = 140m
d. 61.1% f = 0.02

SITUATION VII: Figure H02 -7 Figure H02-1

In figure H02-7 , zp = 5 m, length of
pipe from the reservoir to the pump is
140 m, from the pump to the nozzle is
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