Mste Exam
Mste Exam
INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of the following questions.
Mark only one answer for each item by shading the box corresponding to the letter of your choice on the
answer sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. It is an abrupt rise in water surface which results from retarding water flowing at lower stage.
a. Hydraulic Gradient
b. Hydrology
c. Hydrodynamics
d. Hydraulic Jump
SITUATION: A 7.6 m thick clay layer is underlain by 15.2 m of sand to the ground. The water table is 18.2
m. The saturated unit weight of clay is 18.6 kN/m³. The water table is lowered to 7.6 m below the ground
and the sand above the water table has degree of saturation decrease by 20%.
2. Calculate the effective pressure at the middle height of the clay layer before lowering the water
table.
a. 207.29 kPa
b. 210.15 kPa
c. 277.29 kPa
d. 347.28 kPa
3. Calculate the effective pressure at the middle height of the clay layer after lowering the water
table.
a. 207.29 kPa
b. 210.15 kPa
c. 277.29 kPa
d. 347.28 kPa
4. Calculate the effective pressure at the middle height of the clay layer when the water table is at
the clay surface and assuming that all sand has the same degree of saturation.
a. 207.29 kPa
b. 210.15 kPa
c. 277.29 kPa
d. 347.28 kPa
23. _______ is a device used to determine the undrained shear strength of the soil which consists of
four equal-sized thin steel plates welded to a steel torque rod. The vane is pushed into the soil
and torque (T) is applied at the top of the torque rod to rotate the vane at a uniform speed to
cause failure.
a. Shear Bane
b. Shear Vane
c. Shear Cane
d. Shear Dane
24. Soil derives its strength from its capacity to resist _______.
a. Shear
b. Tension
c. Torsion
d. Compression
SITUATION: Water flows through an orifice at the vertical side of a large tank under a constant head. The
jet strikes 12 m vertically and 20 m horizontally. Assume Cv = 0.98.
SITUATION: An underground tunnel is to be constructed at a depth of 10 m below the ground surface for
a subway in Metro Manila. On the ground surface and radially located from the line of the tunnel is a
vertical load of 10 kN. Design specifications require that the vertical stress due to the load at the level of
the tunnel should not exceed 5 percent of the vertical stress at the same depth directly below the load.
Hint: According to the Boussinesq theory, the vertical stress at a point below the surface of a semi-
infinite; homogenous, isotropic soil mass due to a point load Q applied at the ground surface is given by
the equation:
where:
r = horizontal distance of the point from the vertical line of application of the load
34. Determine the velocity of the water in m/s in the 0.60 m diameter pipeline.
a. 0.697
b. 0.871
c. 0.714
d. 0.556
35. The velocity head of the flow at one section of a pipeline is 5 m. Evaluate the velocity head, in meter(s), at
the next section if the velocity of flow increases by one-half that of the previous section.
a. 7.5 m
b. 6.5 m
c. 6 m
d. 7 m
36. A triangular gate of height 1.2 m and base 0.9 m is installed in a position that its plane is inclined 60
degrees with the horizontal with its vertex at the top and the base is parallel to the water surface. The gate is
at a depth of 2 m vertically below the water surface. Fresh water is on one side of the gate. If the gate is
hinged at the bottom, evaluate the force normal to the gate at its vertex that will be required to lift it in kN.
a. 3.35
b. 3.19
c. 3.15
d. 3.45
SITUATION: Determine the rate of flow, in m³/sec, into or out of each reservoir in the pipe system shown
in the figure. Elevation shows are in meters. For the pipes, the roughness coefficient n = 0.011.
A 1 1220 300 24
B 2 900 200 35
C 3 1500 200 20