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Forces on Submerged Plane Areas Supplemental Activity


1. A vertical, rectangular gate with water on one side. Determine the total resultant
force acting on the gate and the location of the center of pressure.

a.

b.

c.

2. The gate is 4 ft wide, is hinged at point B, and the rests against a smooth wall
at B. Compute the force on the gate due to a seawater pressure, b) the
horizontal force P exerted by the wall at point A, and c) the reaction at hinged
B.
3. A fishpond gate 6 ft wide and 9 ft high is hinged at the top and held closed by water
pressure. What horizontal force applied at the bottom of the gate is required to
open it?

4. Find the hydrostatic force per unit width on rectangular panel AB, determine
its line of action.

5. Gate AB is 16-ft long and 8-ft wide. Neglecting the weight of the gate,
compute the water level h for which the gate will start to fall.

6. Gate AB is semicircular, hinged at B. What horizontal force P is required at A for


equilibrium?
7. Water in a tank is pressurized to 85 cm Hg. Determine the hydrostatic force per
meter width on panel AB.

8. Circular gate ABC is 4 m in diameter and is hinged at B. Compute the force P is just
sufficient to keep the gate from opening when h is 8 m.

9. Gate ABC is 2 m square and hinged at B. How large must h be for the gate to
open?

10. A 65-m square floodgate, weighing 2200 lb, is hinged 44.5 in above the center, and
the fact is inclined 50 to the vertical. Find the depth to which water will rise behind
the gate before it will open.

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