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1. For a moist soil, the following properties are given: Vol=0.25 ft 3, W=30.75lbs, 𝜔=9.8%, Gs=2.66. Determine its porosity.
A. 0.4817 C. 0.3683
B. 0.3251 D. 0.3196
2. Determine the limit of maximum attainable dry unit weight of a given soil sample if the specific gravity of soil solids is
2.2.
A. 1600 kg/m3 C. 1400 kg/m3
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B. 2200 kg/m D. 2800 kg/m3
3. A clayey soil has initial void ratio of 1.5, dry mass of 80 grams, and specific gravity of soil particles of 2.5. The sample is
exposed to atmosphere so that the volume of the soil sample decreases to one-half of its initial volume. Determine the new
void ratio of the soil.
A. 1.50 C. 0.90
B. 0.45 D. 0.25
Situation I.
Water flows in a trapezoidal channel whose channel bottom width is 2.50 m. One side of the channel is vertical and the other is
inclined at 45 degrees. The slope of the channel is 0.002 and the roughness coefficient is 0.011.
4. Which of the following most nearly gives the depth for the most efficient section?
A. 1.576 m C. 1.621 m
B. 1.768 m D. 1.845 m
5. Using the computed depth in the previous requirement, which of the following most nearly gives the value of the hydraulic
radius?
A. 0.788 m C. 0.884 m
B. 0.932 m D. 24.67 m
6. Which of the following gives the rate of flow?
A. 0.788 m C. 0.884 m
B. 0.932 m D. 1.811 m
7. Water is moving in a 5 m wide rectangular channel at a depth of 1 m and a Froude Number of √10. If the water undergoes
a jump, determine the Froude Number after the jump.
A. 0.935 C. 0.593
B. 0.395 D. 0.695
8. What are the most economical dimensions for a rectangular brick channel designed to carry 10m 3/s of water with a
uniform flow? Use n=0.015 and S=0.001.
A. b=4.32, d=2.15 m C. b=3.28 m, d= 1.64 m
B. b=2.92 m, d=1.47 m D. b=3.86, d=1.91 m
9. An illegal connection was observed on a 300mm diameter horizontal pipe having f=0.02. Upstream from the connection
two gages 600 m apart showed a pressure difference of 140 kPa. Downstream from the connection two gages 600 m apart
showed a pressure difference of 116 kPa. How much water is being stolen due to illegal connection?
A. 16.79 L/sec C. 14.92 L/sec
B. 18.24 L/sec D. 17.08 L/sec
10. Determine the absolute pressure at 250 cm below the free surface of oil(s=0.80) if the atmospheric pressure is 101.325
kPa.
A. 99.363 kPa C. 81.705 kPa
B. 103.287 kPa D. 120.945 kPa
Situation II.
A closed cylindrical tank is 2 m high and 1 m in diameter is filled with water at a depth of 1.5 m. The air space inside is under
a pressure of 1.07 Bar.
11. If it is rotated about its vertical axis at 12 rad/sec. Which of the following most nearly gives the maximum pressure at the
bottom of the tank?
A. 131.33 kPa C. 311.33 kPa
B. 113.33 kPa D. 313.33 kPa
12. If it is rotated about its vertical axis at 2rad/sec, which of the following most nearly gives the minimum pressure at the
bottom of the tank?
A. 131.33 kPa C. 311.33 kPa
B. 113.33 kPa D. 313.33 kPa
13. Which of the following most nearly gives the angular speed when the depth of water at the center is zero?
A. 17.72 rad/sec C. 11.67 rad/sec
B. 8.51 rad/sec D. 13.58 rad/sec
Situation III.
A 1-m diameter new cast iron pipe is 845 m long and has a head loss of 1.11m.
14. Which of the following most nearly gives the discharge capacity of water for this pipe by Hazen-Williams formula using
C=130?
A. 0.204 m3/s C. 0.807 m3/s
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B. 1.001 m /s D. 1.107 m3/s
15. Which of the following most nearly gives the discharge capacity of water for this pipe by Manning’s formula?
A. 0.204 m3/s C. 0.87 m3/s
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B. 1.001 m /s D. 1.07 m3/s
16. Which of the following most nearly gives the discharge capacity of water for this pipe by Darcy-Weisbach formula using
f= 0.014?
A. 0.204 m3/s C. 0.87 m3/s
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B. 1.01 m /s D. 1.07 m3/s
Situation IV.
The critical hydraulic gradient for a soil sample is equal to 1.02. The specific gravity of soil particles is 2.67 and the water
content is 14%.
17. Which of the following most nearly gives the void ratio of the sample?
A. 2.1987 C. 1.5376
B. 0.9128 D. 0.6373
18. Which of the following most nearly gives the degree of saturation of the soil sample?
A. 17.01% C. 24.32%
B. 40.99% D. 58.66%
Situation V.
A 6000 cu m of soil is excavated from a borrow pit that has a void ratio e 1= 1.2. the soil excavated will be placed in an
embankment that requires a void ratio e2= 0.80.
Situation VI.
Water is under the pressure of 450 kPa absolute, flows with a velocity of 3 m/s through a right angle bend having a uniform
diameter of 300 mm. The bend lies in a horizontal plane. Water enters west and leaves towards North. Assume no drop in
pressure.
22. Which of the following most nearly gives the magnitude of the dynamic force?
A. 636 N C. 899 N
B. 363 N D. 989 N
23. Which of the following most nearly gives the magnitude of resultant force required to hold the bend in place?
A. 53.67 kN C. 25.29 kN
B. 35.76 kN D. 76.35 kN
24. Which of the following most nearly gives the direction of the resultant force?
A. N 45° E C. N 45° W
B. S 45° W D. S 45° W
25. A sample of saturated clay has a water content of 400%. Compute the percentage of voids if specific gravity of soil solids
is 2.4.
A. 64.89% C. 87.15%
B. 76.41% D. 90.57%
Situation VII.
From Figure FM-HFS-501, the gate shown is 1 m wide and is hinged at the bottom of the gate.
26. Which of the following most nearly gives the hydrostatic force acting on the gate?
A. 16.29 kN C. 19.62 kN
B. 12.96 kN D. 21.69 kN
27. Which of the following most nearly gives the distance of the hydrostatic force from the hinge of the gate?
A. 0.333 m C. 0.6667 m
B. 1.3333 m D. 1.6667 m
28. If the unit weight of the concrete is 23.5 kN/m3, which of the following most nearly gives the minimum volume of
concrete to keep the gate in closed position?
A. 0.238 m3 C. 0.283 m3
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B. 0.832 m D. 0.382 m3
Situation VIII.
A mercury barometer at the base of a mountain reads 736mm at the same time, another barometer at the top of the mountain
reads 590 mm. assuming air weighs 12N/m3
Situation IX.
A building requires a 10,000 m3 of fill at a void ratio of 0.20. Material for earth fill was available from a borrow site at ₱320
per cubic meter. It was found that the average void ratio from the site is 0.80.
44. Which of the following most nearly gives the volume of soil solids required?
A. 12,000 m3 C. 5555.56 m3
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B. 8333.33 m D. 18,000 m3
45. Which of the following most nearly gives the volume of borrow?
A. 14,400 m3 C. 6666.67 m3
B. 15,000 m3 D. 3444.44 m3
46. Which of the following most nearly gives the total cost of acquiring soil from the borrow site?
A. ₱ 4.8 M C. ₱ 4.61 M
B. ₱ 2.1 M D. ₱ 5.76 M
Situation X.
A 0.30 m square prestressed concrete pile that is 10 m long is to be driven in a clayey soil whose unconfined compressive
strength is 115 kN/m3. The unit weight of clayey is 18 kN/m3. The pile has a design capacity of 360 kN.
47. Which of the following most nearly gives the end bearing capacity of pile if Nc=9?
A. 46.58 kN C. 41.55 kN
B. 25.63 kN D. 18.65 kN
48. Which of the following gives the skin friction capacity of pile if 𝛼=0.76?
A. 501.65 kN C. 605.21 kN
B. 680.47 kN D. 583.29 kN
49. Which of the following most nearly gives the pile capacity if factor of safety is 2.0?
A. 186.6 kN C. 420.5 kN
B. 260.5 kN D. 363.5 kN
Situation XI
A confined aquifer is shown in Figure GE-FWS-202. The aquifer has s hydraulic conductivity of 40m/day and a porosity of
0.25. the piezometric heads in the two observation wells 1200 m apart are 65 m and 60 m from a common datum. The aquifer
has an average width of 4 km.
50. Which of the following most nearly gives the rate of flow of water?
A. 17,666.67 m3/day C. 17,333.33 m3/day
B. 16,666.67 m3/day D. 16,333.33 m3/day
51. Which of the following gives the seepage velocity?
A. 0.667 m/day C. 0.7333 m/day
B. 0.7667 m/day D. 0.333 m/day
52. Which of the following most nearly gives the time of travel from the head of the aquifer to a point 3.30 km downstream?
A. 3960 days C. 4304 days
B. 4950 days D. 4500 days
Situation XII
An anchored sheet pile 10.50 m high is to retain 7.30 m deep of soil. The soil has an angle of friction of 31 degrees with a unit
weight of 17.5 kN/m3. The sheet pile anchored at a depth of 1.20 m below the ground surface with center to center spacing of 3
m.
53. Which of the following most nearly gives the total active force on the sheet pile per meter width?
A. 430.16 kN/m C. 389.47 kN/m
B. 333.25 kN/m D. 308.80 kN/m
54. Which of the following most nearly gives the percentage of the total passive resistance utilized by the wall?
A. 72.84% C. 77.71%
B. 82.12% D. 94.50%
55. Which of the following most nearly gives the tension in the anchor?
A. 273.79kN C. 299.44 kN
B. 306.68 kN D. 323.09 kN
Situation XIII
After conducting a tri-axial test on a sand sample, the normal and shearing stresses on the failure plane at failure were found to
be 400 kPa and 350 kPa respectively.
Situation IVX
A conical tank having a base radius of 0.40 m and a height of 0.65 m contains 0.020 m 3 of water.
59. Which of the following most nearly gives the capacity of the tank?
A. 0.0658 m3 C. 0.0981 m3
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B. 0.1089 m D. 0.1291 m3
60. Which of the following nearly gives the additional amount of water to fill the tank?
A. 0.0929 m3 C. 0.0889 m3
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B. 0.0761 m D.30.0566 m3
61. Which of the following most nearly gives the depth of water in the tank?
A. 0.0958 m C. 0.0824 m
B. 0.0425 m D. 0.0295 m
Situation XV
The tank shown in figure FM-B-145 is 7 m in width. The specific gravity of oil is 0.84 and the unit weight of water is 9.79 KN/
m3.
62. Which of the following most nearly gives the height of oil?
A. 1.19 m C. 1.22 m
B. 2.33 m D. 2.36 m
63. If a 900 N block of wood floats in oil, which of the following most nearly gives the new height of oil?
A. 1.19 m C. 1.22 m
B. 2.33 m D. 2.36 m
64. Which of the following most nearly gives the rise in the free surface of water in contact with air?
A. 17.10 mm C. 8.76 mm
B. 29.37 mm D. 14.68 mm
65. Under normal consolidation at sea level, the atmospheric is most nearly equal to:
A. 101.3 kPa C. 103.1 kPa
B. 110.3 kPa D. 130.1 kPa
66. What is the rate of flow of water passing through a pipe with a diameter of 20 mm and velocity of 0.50 m/sec?
A. 1.57 x 10-4 m3/s C. 7.85 x 10-4 m3/s
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B. 6.28 x 10 m /s D. none of these
67. An open can of water is subjected to an upward acceleration of 4.50 m/s 2. What is the pressure at the depth of 1.50 m?
A. 21.46 kPa C. 24.61 kPa
B. 25.03 kPa D. 26.39 kPa
68. The hydraulic radius of a pipe with a diameter of 12 mm is equal to:
A. 3 mm C. 4 mm
B. 6 mm D. 9 mm
69. The ratio of the change in pressure to the relative change in density, and measures the compressibility of a material is
known as:
A. Modulus of Compressibility C. Bulk Modulus of Elasticity
B. Compression Index D. Swell index
70. Theoretical velocity generated by a 3-m hydraulic head is equal to:
A. 5.42 m/sec C. 7.67 m/sec
B. 4.25 m/sec D. 6.77 m/sec
71. The interference between immiscible fluid acts like an infinitely thin membrane that supports a tensile force. The
magnitude of this force per unit length of a line on the surface is termed as:
A. Viscosity C. Capillarity
B. Surface tension D. Surface cavity
72. In fluid flow, if the fluid travels parallel to the adjacent layers and the paths of individual particles do not cross each other,
the flow is said to be
A. critical C. laminar
B. turbulent D. dynamic
73. The Froude Number of flow in a rectangular open channel is o.85 at depth of flow of 1.3 m. Determine the critical depth.
A. 0.59 m C. 0.98 m
B. 1.17 m D. 1.26 m
Situation XVI.
A cylindrical tank 4 m in diameter and 10 m high contains 6 m of oil(0.90) and 4 m of water. An orifice 100 mm in diameter is
located at the bottom of the tank with Cc=0.90 and Cv=0.98.
74. Compute the discharge assuming constant head in liters per second.
A. 91 L/s C. 97 L/s
B. 94 L/s D. 100 L/s
75. Compute the time to remove the water.
A. 498.5 s C. 583.8 s
B. 511.7 s D. 608.2 s
76. Determine the total time required to drain all the liquids.
A. 43.17 min C. 43.94 min
B. 43.59 min D. 44.41 min
Situation XVI.
The moist unit weight and degrees of saturation of a soil sample are given as follows:
77. Which of the following most nearly gives the specific gravity of the soil solids?
A. 2.7333 C. 2.6459
B. 2.8459 D. 2.5267
78. Which of the following nearly gives the percent voids?
A. 33.33% C. 55.56 %
B. 44.44 % D. 66.67%
79. Which of the following most nearly gives the dry unit weight of the soil?
A. 12.63 KN/m3 C. 13.55 KN/m3
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B. 14.62 KN/m D. 15.22 KN/m3
80. It is the pressure that acts as the body submerged in a liquid at rest which is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by
the submerged body in either partially or completely.
A. Drag force C. Buoyant Force
B. Dynamic force D. surface tension