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8. The head extracted by the turbine 13. Strut load at Level A in kN.
HYDRAULICS & GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING in meters. a. 126.55
a. 149.55 b. 89.20
Instruction: Select the correct answers for each of the following questions. Mark only one b. 141.47 c. 101
answer for each item by shading the box corresponding to this letter of your choice on the c. 136.10 d. 116.03
answer sheet provided. STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED. Use pencil no. 1 only d. 160.75
14. Strut load at Level C.
SITUATION I: 4. Compute the average vertical 9. The power generated by the a. 180.90
A retaining wall 6 m high supports coefficient of permeability in m/hour. turbine in KW. b. 89.20
cohesionless soil having a dry density a. 5.11 x 10-6 a. 215.65 c. 206.27
of 1600 kg/m3,angle of resistance 32° b. 6.5 x 10-7 b. 194.29 d. 126.85
and void ratio of 0.68. The surface of c. 9.15 x 10-6 c. 235.18
the soil is horizontal and level with the d. 7.7 x 10-7 d. 180.50 15. Strut load at Level B.
top of the wall. Neglecting wall friction a. 38.68
and using Rankine’s formula for active 5. Compute the interstitial (actual) SITUATION IV: b. 49.20
pressure of a cohesionless soil. velocity in cm/sec of water moving A stone weighs 468 N in air. When c. 68.95
1. Determine the nearest value of the through the soil if it has a ratio of 0.60. submerged in water it weighs 298 N. d. 56.30
total earth thrust on the wall in KN per a. 1 x 10-7 10. Find the volume of the stone in m3.
lineal meter if the soil is dry. b. 2.3 x 10-6 a. 0.001 SITUATION VI:
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a. 73.1 c. 2.93 x 10 b. 0.0173 A square plate having one of its sides
b. 86.7 d. 1.54 x 10-6 c. 0.025 equal to 3.5 m is immersed in water in
c. 62.4 d. 0.0357 a vertical position such that the two
d. 98.1 6. Compute the water loss in cu.m edges of the square would be
from the reservoir in one year. 11. Find the unit weight of the stone in horizontal. In order that the center of
2. Find the nearest value of the thrust Assume that the pore pressure at the kN/m3. pressure in the plate shall be 12 cm
on the wall in KN per lineal meter if bottom sand layer is zero. a. 24.03 from the center of gravity:
owing to inadequate drainage, it is a. 708.1 cum/yr b. 26.0
waterlogged to a level of 3.5 m below b. 550.62 cum/yr. c. 25.0 16. How far below the water surface
the surface. c. 619.58 cum/yr d. 27.05 should the upper of the plate be
a. 112 d. 580.8 cum/yr submerged?
b. 171 12. Find the specific gravity of the a. 6.757 m
c. 147 SITUATION III: stone. b. 9.25 m
d. 153 Reservoirs A and B have elevations a. 2.90 c. 12.35 m
250 m and 100 m respectively, which b. 2.45 d. 15.10 m
3. Find at what height above the are connected by a pipe having a c. 2.25
base of the wall the thrust acts during diameter of 250 mm and a length of d. 2.76 17. What is the distance of the center
the waterlogged condition. 250 m. A turbine is installed at a point of pressure from the water surface?
a. 2.21 m in between reservoirs A and B. If SITUATION V: a. 6.24m
b. 2.00 m C = 120, compute the following if the A 7m deep braced cut in sand is b. 11.36 m
c. 1.74 m discharge in the pipeline is 140 shown in Figure 55 – 13 (1) SO1. In c. 14.807 m
d. 1.42 m liters/sec. the plan, the struts are placed at a d. 8.627
7. Head loss in the pipe due to spacing of 2.0 m center to center. If φ
SITUATION II: friction (in meters).
= 30° and the unit weight of sand is 17 18. Determine the hydrostatic force in
2
A reservoir with a 3,400 m area is a. 9.17 3 kN acting on the plate at this position.
kN/m , compute the following using
underlain by layers of stratified soils b. 7.35 a. 890.40
Peck’s empirical pressure diagram.
as depicted in the Figure 55.09 (1) c. 6.15 b. 1022.31
SO6. The values of L1, L2, and L3 d. 8.53 c. 1236.71
are 2.0 m, 1.4 m, and 3.2 m d. 697.21
respectively.

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SITUATION VII: 23. Determine the size of footing B so SITUATION X: ANSWER KEY:
A discharge of 750 liters/sec flows that the settlement in the clay layer is A 0.36m square prestressed concrete
through a pipe having a diameter of the same beneath footings A and B. pile is to be driven in a clayey soil as 1. B 16. A
400 mm and a length of 65 m long. a. 2.85m x 2.85m shown in Figure 55.1 (3) S11. The 2. A 17. D
Compute the following hand losses in b. 3.24m x 3.24m design capacity of the pile is 360 KN, 3. C 18. B
the pipe in meters. c. 1.8m x 1.8m with a factor of safety of 2.0. 4. C 19. A
19. Using Manning’s Equation with d. 3.68m x 3.68m Given: 5. D 20. A
n = 0.013. qu = 111 KN/m ,
2 6. C 21. D
a. 8.44 24. Determine the settlement in mm unit weight of the clayey soil = 18.5 7. D 22. D
b. 8.96 beneath footing A. KN/m3. 8. B 23. B
c. 7.50 a. 34.70 28. Compute the end bearing capacity 9. B 24. D
d. 7.18 b. 30.85 of pile in KN if Nc = 9. 10. B 25. C
c. 58.10 a. 55.30 11. D 26. B
20. Using Darcy Weisback formula d. 46.65 b. 60.10 12. D 27. D
with f = 0.012. c. 64.74 13. D 28. C
a. 3.54 SITUATION IX: d. 76.40 14. C 29. A
b. 2.15 A sandy soil has a drained angle of 15. A 30. D
c. 3.17 friction of 32°. The deviation stress at 29. Compute the skin friction in KN
d. 2.75 failure is 400 kPa. expected to develop along the shaft of
the pile.
21. Using Hazen Williams formula with 25. Compute the angle that the failure a. 655.26
C = 100. plane makes with the major principal b. 553.40
a. 7.45 plane. c. 684.60
b. 6.12 a. 63° d. 605.85
c. 7.86 b. 64°
d. 6.99 c. 61° 30. Compute the length of the pile in
d. 60° meters if friction constant: α = 0.76.
a. 11.8
SITUATION VIII: 26. Compute the chamber confining b. 10.08
Two footings rest in a layer of sand pressure in kPa. c. 8.5
2.7m thick. The bottom of the footings a. 174.61 d. 10.79
are 0.90m below the ground surface. b. 177.42
Beneath the sand layer is a 1.8m thick c. 103.40
clay layer, underneath the clay layer is d. 170.50
solid rock. Water table is at a depth of
1.8 m below the ground surface. See 27. Compute the shear stress in kPa
Figure 114-12 (3) S11. at the point of the failure plane.
a. 127.21
22. Compute the stress increase in b. 339.22
kPa below footing A (1.5m x 1.5m) at c. 201.60
the center of the clay layer. Assume d. 169.61
that the pressure beneath footing A is
spread at an angle of 2 vertical to 1
horizontal.
a. 20.15
b. 30.75
c. 22.50
d. 25.51
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5m Ground surface
A 1m P1 = 450 kN P2 = 900 kN

2m
SAND B
γ = 17kN/m3 0.9 m
φ = 30° Footing B
2m Footing A
c=0 C
γ = 18.5 kN/m3 B 0.9 m
2m

SAND : γ = 20.8 kN/m3 Water table 0.9 m

Bottom of cut

Figure 55 – 13 (1) SO1

γ = 18.5 kPa
CLAY : 1.8 m

Qdesign = 360kN
Figure 114_12(3)S11

Water reservoir 15 m

kx = 1.8x10-6 cm/s
L1
ky = 2.6x10-7 cm/s

L kx = 2.4x 10-6 cm/s L2

ky =3.2x10-7 cm/s
qu , γ
kx = 1.1x10-6 cm/s L3
ky =2.3x10-7 cm/s

SAND LAYER 5m
Pile
IMPERMEABLE LAYER
FIGURE 55-09(1)SO6

Figure 55-13(3)S11