HYDRAULICS & GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING a. 162.

1 kPa abs
b. 154.7 kPa abs
1. What would be the weight of 3-kg c. 168.1 kPa abs
mass on a planet where the
acceleration due to gravity is 10 m/s2? d. 171.7 kPa abs

a. 30 N 6. Piston A has a cross-section of

1,200 sq. m while that of piston B is
b. 40 N 950 sq. cm. with the latter higher
than piston A by 1.75 m. If the
c. 50 N intervening passages are filled with
d. 60 N oil whose specific gravity is 0.8,
what is the difference in pressure
2. Calculate the density of water between A and B.
vapor at 350 kPa abs and 20°C of its
gas constant is 0.462 kPa-m3/kg-°K. a. 13, 734 Pa

a. 2.22 kg/m3 b. 10, 118 Pa

b. 3.11 kg/m3 c. 14, 835 Pa

c. 2.59 kg/m3 d. 13, 132 Pa

d. 3.84 kg/m3 7. For the tank shown in the figure,

h1 = 3m and h3 = 4m. Determine the
3. Find the angle of the surface value of h2.
tension film leaves the glass for a
vertical tube immersed in water if the
diameter is 0.25 inch and the
a. 1.5 m
capillary rise is 0.08 inch. Surface
tension is 0.005 lb/ft. b. 1.19 m
a. 64.3° c. 1.35 m
b. 63.4° d. 2.11 m
c. 64.5° 8. Assuming
normal
d. 63.8°
barometric pressure, how deep in the
4. A hydraulic press is used to raise ocean is the point where an air
an 80-kN cargo truck. If oil of sp. gr. bubble, upon reaching the surface, has
0.82 acts in the piston under a six times its volume than it had at
pressure of 10 MPa, what diameter of the botton?
piston is required?
a. 45.15 m
a. 85 mm
b. 54.61 m
b. 92 mm
c. 62.78 m
c. 100 mm
d. 50.13 m
d. 113 mm
9. A glass 12 cm tall filled with
5. A barometer reads 760 mmHg and a water is inverted. The bottom is open.
pressure gage attached to a tank reads What is the pressure at the closed end?
850 cm of oil (sp. gr. 0.80). What is Barometric pressure is 101. 325 kPa.
the absolute pressure in the tank in
a. 121.45 kPa
kPa?
b. 100.15 kPa
c. 135.05 kPa
d. 117.365 kPa
10. A device used to measure pressure
heads in pipes where the liquid is in
motion.
a. U tube
b. Barometer
c. Piezometer
d. Manometer
11. A vertical rectangular plate is
submerged half in oil (sp. gr. = 0.8)
and half in water such that its top
edge is flushed with the oil surface.
What is the ratio of the force exerted
by water acting on the lower half to
that by oil acting on the upper half?
a. 3.25
b. 4
c. 1.425
d. 2
12. A vertical circular gate is
submerged in a liquid so that its top
edge is flushed withthe liquid surface.
Find the ratio of the total force
acting on the lower half to that
acting on the upper half.
a. 1.635
b. 2.984
c. 2.475
d. 3.16
13. Iron pins 20 mm in diameter are
used for supporting flashboards at the
crest of masonry dams. Test shows that
the yield point of iron is to be 310
MPa(extreme fiber stress). Neglecting
the dynamic effect of water on
flashboards and assuming static
condition, what is the proper spacing,
S, of the iron pins, so that the
flashboards 600mm high will yield when
water flows 150 mm deep over the top
of the flashboards.
a. 422 mm
b. 273 mm
c. 394 mm
d. 325 mm
SITUATION: A dam is triangular in
cross-section with the upstream face
vertical. Water is flushed with the
top. The dam is 8 m high and 6 m wide
at the base and weighs 2.4 tons per
cubic meter. The coefficient of
friction is between the base and the
foundation is 0.8.
14. Determine the maximum and minimum
unit pressure on the foundation.
a. -139.47 kPa soil pressure at the
toe & -48.88 kPa soil pressure at the
heel
b. -155.2 kPa soil pressure at the toe
& -48.88 kPa soil pressure at the heel
c. -139.47 kPa soil pressure at the
toe & -32.16 kPa soil pressure at the
heel
d. -155.2 kPa soil pressure at the toe
& -32.16 kPa soil pressure at the heel
15. Factor of safety against
overturning
a. 1.44
b. 2.31
c. 2.7
d. 1.16
16. Factor of safety against sliding
a. 1.44
b. 2.31
c. 2.7
d. 1.16
17. An inverted conical plug 400 mm in
diameter and 300 mm long closes at a
200 mm diameter circular hole at the
bottom of a tank containing 600 mm of
oil having sp. gr. of 0.82. Determine
the total vertical force acting on the
plug.
a. 65.3 N upward
b. 65.3 N downward
c. 63.5 N upward
d. 63.5 N downward
18. A 2 m diameter horizontal cylinder
2 m long plugs a 1m by 2m rectangular
hole at the bottom of a tank. With
what force is the cylinder pressed
against the bottom of the tank due to
the 4-m depth of water?
a. 15.17 kN
b. 16.22 kN
c. 18.62 kN
d. 19.04 kN
19. A 300 mm diameter steel pipe 12 mm
thick carries water under a head of 50
m of water. Determine the stress in
the steel.
a. 4.11 MPa
b. 5.12 MPa
c. 6.13 MPa
d. 7.14 MPa
20. A vertical cylindrical tank is 2
meters in diameter and 3 meters high.
Its sides are held in position by
means of two steel hoops, one at the
top and the other at the bottom. If
the tank is filled with water to a
depth of 2.1 m, determine the tensile
stress in each hoop.
a. 16.58 kN (tension in the bottom
hoop; 5.05 kN (tension in the top hoop)
b. 18.95 kN (tension in the bottom
hoop; 4.22 kN (tension in the top hoop)
c. 22.326 kN (tension in the bottom
hoop; 6.13 kN (tension in the top hoop)
d. 24.36 kN (tension in the bottom
hoop; 10.01 kN (tension in the top
hoop)
SITUATION: A block of wood 0.60 m ×
0.60 m × h meters in dimension was
thrown into the water and floats with
0.18 m projecting above the water
surface. The same block was thrown
into a container of a liquid having a
specific gravity of 0.90 and it floats
with 0.14 m projecting above the
surface. Determine the following:
21. the value of h
a. 0.21 m
b. 0.325 m
c. 0.54 m
d. 0.77 m
22. the specific gravity of the block
a. 0.551
b. 0.638
c. 0.667
d. 0.612
23. the weight of the block
a. 1.272 kN
b. 1.325 kN
c. 1.859 kN
d. 1.492 kN
24 A wood cone, 700 mm diameter and
1000 mm high floats in water with its
vertex down. If the specific gravity
of the wood is 0.60, would it be
stable? Determine also its initial
metacentric height.
a. STABLE; MG = 39.96 mm
b. UNSTABLE; MG = -39.96 mm
c. STABLE; MG = 36.69 mm
d. UNSTABLE; MG = -36.69 mm
FOR ITEMS 25 & 26: A vessel 3 m in
diameter containing 2.4 m of water is
being raised.
25. Find the pressure at the bottom of
the vessel in kPa when the velocity is
constant
a. 21.84 kPa m when oil (s = 0.90) flows at 0.057
m^3/s. Assume viscosity of oil is
b. 24.984 kPa 0.0389 Pa.s
c. 23.01 kPa 30. Determine the Reynolds number.
d. 23.544 kPa a. 11210
26. Find the pressure at the bottom of b. 13170
the vessel when it is accelerating 0.6
m/s2 upwards. c. 15140
a. 21.84 kPa d. 19830
b. 24.984 kPa 31. Determine the friction factor “f”.
c. 23.01 kPa a. 0.019
d. 23.544 kPa b. 0.034
SITUATION: A 25 mm long smooth brass c. 0.044
pipe 300 m long drains an open 1.2 m
cylindrical tank which contains oil d. 0.078
having density = 950 kg/m3 and dynamic SITUATION: A rectangular irrigation
viscosity of 0.03 N.s/m2. The pipe canal 6 m wide contains water 1 m deep.
discharges at elevation 30 m. The It has a hydraulic slope of 0.001 and
liquid surface of oil is at elevation a roughness coefficient of 0.013.
of 36 m.
32. Evaluate the mean velocity of the
27. Find Reynold’s number for oil. water in the canal in m/s.
a. 88.4 a. 6.11 m/s
b. 96.1 b. 2.01 m/s
c. 112.7 c. 4.66 m/s
d. 144.8 d. 1.99 m/s
28. Determine the velocity of flow. 33. Evaluate the discharge in the
a. 0.1172 m/s canal m3/s.

b. 0.1488 m/s a. 15.55 m3/s

c. 0.1213 m/s b. 18.34 m3/s

d. 0.1459 m/s c. 14.15 m3/s

29. Determine the time required in d. 12.06 m3/s

hours for the oil level to drop from 34. What would be the depth of the
elevation 36 to elevation 32.5 m. canal in meters using the more
a. 29.6 hours economical proportions but adhering to
the same discharge and slope?
b. 20.4 hours
a. 1.89 m
c. 22.9 hours
b. 1.55 m
d. 27.7 hours
c. 1.67 m
SITUATION: The head loss in 74 m of
150 mm diameter pipe is known to be 9 d. 1.38 m
SITUATION: A jet of water 250 mm in a. 3.66 m/s
diameter impinges normally on a flat
steel plate. If the discharge is 0.491 b. 3.06 m/s
cu m/s, c. 4.79 m/s
35. Find the force exerted by the jet d. 5.19 m/s
on the stationary plate.
39. Find the head loss due to friction.
a. 6.33 kN
a. 4.77 m
b. 4.91 kN
b. 3.18 m
c. 3.64 kN
c. 3.53 m
d. 2.79 kN
d. 3.87 m
36. If the flat plate is moving at 2
m/s in the same direction as that of 40. Find the power generated by the
the jet, find the force exerted by the turbine
jet on the plate. a. 211 kW
a. 3.142 kN b. 264 kW
b. 2.216 kN c. 313 kW
c. 1.977 kN d. 327 kW
d. 1.425 kN 41. A 20 cm diameter pipe length of
37. If the flat plate is moving at 4 100 m with z = 60 m, f = 0.02 m and
m/s in the same direction as that of loss of head due to entrance
the jet, find the work done on the coefficient k = 0.5. What is the flow
plate per second. rate?

a. 7525 N.m/s a. 11.48 m/s

b. 8419 N.m/s b. 10.12 m/s

c. 7068 N.m/s c. 15.55 m/s

d. 6619 N.m/s d. 18.79 m/s

SITUATION: Water flows from an upper
reservoir to lower one while passing
through a turbine as shown in the
figure.
42. A discharge of 750 L/s flows
through a pipe having diameter of 400
mm, 85 m long. Using Hazen-Williams
formula, compute the head loss.
a. 5 m
b. 7 m
c. 13 m
d. 4 m
SITUATION: A consolidated drained tri-
axial test was conducted on a normally
consolidated clay. The results as
follows:

38. Find the velocity of water. Chamber confining pressure: 138 kPa
Deviator Stress = 258 kPa
43. Compute the friction angle of the lateral earth pressure at a depth of 5
soil. m in the same sand deposit but a water
table is located at a ground surface.
a. 32.55° Saturated unit weight of sand is 20.5
b. 21.07° kN/m3.

c. 28.89° a. 84.31 kPa

d. 35.15° b. 80.64 kPa

44. Compute the normal stress at c. 76.15 kPa

failure. d. 72.21 kPa
a. 204.68 kPa 49. It is a line along which a water
b. 212.59 kPa particle will travel from upstream to
the downstream side in the permeable
c. 278.87 kPa soil medium.
d. 255.15 kPa a. Stress line
45. Compute the shear stress at b. equipotential
failure.
c. impervious line
a. 137.15 kPa
d. flow line
b. 112.95 kPa
SITUATION: A saturated clay layer has
c. 108.53 kPa a thickness of 8 m with a water
d. 111.31 kPa content of 50% and a specific gravity
of 2.78.
SITUATION: A certain soil deposit has
a liquid limit of 47% and a plastic 50. Compute the saturated unit weight
limit of 24%. of the clay.

46. Compute the coefficient of earth a. 17.12 kN/m3

pressure at rest of this soil deposit. b. 15.69 kN/m3
Hint: Ko = 0.19 + 0.223log(PI)
c. 18.37 kN/m3
a. 0.507 3
d. 20.45 kN/m
b. 0.447
51. Determine the total stress at the
c. 0.239 bottom
d. 0.319 a. 157.44 kPa
47. Compute the total stress at rest b. 136.96 kPa
lateral earth pressure a depth of 5 m.
in a dense sand deposit where this c. 141.27 kPa
soil was obtained. Unit weight of sand d. 147.84 kPa
is 18.4 kN/m3.
52. Find the effective stress at the
a. 45.33 kPa bottom
b. 46.64 kPa a. 64.19 kPa
c. 48.33 kPa b. 58.48 kPa
d. 50.01 kPa c. 39.12 kPa
48. Compute the total stress at rest
d. 46.79 kPa c. 312.47 kPa
SITUATION: A sample of sand above the d. 318.39 kPa
water table was found to have a
natural moisture content of 15% and a 58. Compute the shear stress at
unit weight of 120 pcf. Laboratory failure.
tests on a dried sample indicated a. 88.79 kPa
values of emin = 0.50 and emax = 0.85
for the densest and loosest states b. 85.29 kPa
respectively. c. 81.57 kPa
53. Find the void ratio. d. 80.16 kPa
a. 0.587 SITUATION: A retaining wall 7 m high
b. 0.609 is supporting a horizontal backfill
having a dry unit weight of 1570 kg/m3.
c. 0.645 The cohesionless soil has an angle of
d. 0.788 friction of 34° and a void ration of
0.68.
54. Find the degree of saturation.
59. Compute the Rankine active force
a. 67.7 on the wall.
b. 70.4 a. 113.87 kN
c. 77.6 b. 110.65 kN
d. 81.5 c. 106.77 kN
55. Find the density index. d. 101.53 kN
a. 0.50 60. Compute the Rankine active force
on the wall if water logging occurs at
b. 1.00 a depth of 3 m from the ground surface.
c. 0.60 a. 172 kN
d. 0.75 b. 166 kN
SITUATION: For a normally consolidated c. 184 kN
clay, it has an angle of friction of
25°. In a drained triaxial test, the d. 153 kN
specimen failed at a deviator stress
of 180 kPa. 61. Compute the location of the
resultant active force from the bottom.
56. Compute the chamber confining
pressure. a. 1.88 m

a. 176.54 kPa b. 1.95 m

b. 186.17 kPa c. 2.02 m

c. 144.66 kPa d. 2.18 m

d. 122.96 kPa SITUATION: A cantilever sheet pile is

8.2 m long with a depth of embedment
57. Compute the max. stress of failure. of 3.2 m. Angle of friction of the
soil supported by the sheet pile is
a. 296.96 kPa 34° and has a unit weight of 1.91 g/cc.
b. 302.96 kPa There is water table below the base of
the sheet pile. Use γwater = 9.81 condition is 200 kN and 100 kN is the
kN/m3. point load capacity at working
condition. Allowable working load is
62. Compute the active force acting on 340 kN.
the sheet pile.
67. Compute the elastic settlement of
a. 181.2 kN/m the pile.
b. 155.8 kN/m a. 1.89 mm
c. 178.3 kN/m b. 1.55 mm
d. 164.7 kN/m c. 1.37 mm
63. Compute the passive force acting d. 1.29 mm
on the sheet pile.
68. Compute the settlement caused by
a. 373.6 kN/m the load transmitted along the pile
b. 338.7 kN/m shaft.

c. 326.9 kN/m a. 0.577 mm

d. 350.8 kN/m b. 0.601 mm

64. Compute the theoretical passive c. 0.389 mm

force that must be mobilized to ensure d. 0.638 mm
stability.
69. A square column foundation has to
a. 477.9 kN/m carry a gross allowable load of 1805
b. 505.8 kN/m kN, FS = 3, df = 1.5 m, γ = 15.9 kN/m3,
ϕ = 34°, and c = 0. Compute the width
c. 488.3 kN/m of the footing.
d. 456.9 kN/m a. 3 m
65. It is the direct result of the b. 4.5 m
decrease in the soil volume.
c. 2 m
a. Consolidation
d. 1.75 m
b. Settlement
70. A retaining wall 6 m high is
c. Compressibility supporting a horizontal backfill
d. Transmissibility having dry unit weight of 1600 kg /m^3.

66. It is usually done during drilling The cohesionless soil has an angle of
on rock formations. friction of 32° and a void ratio of
0.68. Compute the Rankine active force
a. Borrow pit of the wall.
b. Test pit a. 91.55 kN
c. Core Boring b. 64.07 kN
d. Auger boring c. 78.55 kN
SITUATION: A concrete pile 12 m long d. 86.76 kN
having cross section of 0.30 m x 0.30
m is fully embedded into a layer of SITUATION: An open cylindrical tank
sand assuming C = 0. Frictional having a radius of 0.30 m and a height
resistance of pile at working of 1.20 m is filled with water at a
depth of 0.90 m. c. 19.12 kPa
71. How fast will it be rotated about d. 16.04 kPa
its vertical axis if half of its
volume is spilled out? 76. Determine the pressure throughout
the bottom.
a. 191.54 rpm
a. 20.77 kPa
b. 178.34 rpm
b. 29.12 kPa
c. 156.21 rpm
c. 22.19 kPa
d. 145.84 rpm
d. 21.09 kPa
72. Find the speed of rotation about
its vertical axis so that no water SITUATION: The buoy in figure shown
will be spilled out? has 80 N of steel weight attached. The
buoy has lodged against a rock 2 m
a. 132.85 rpm deep. Assume the weight of water is
45.62 N,
b. 121.70 rpm
c. 133.84 rpm
d. 109.21 rpm
73. Determine the speed of rotation
about its vertical axis to produce
zero pressure with 0.20 m from the
center of the tank.
a. 207.22 rpm
b. 222.75 rpm
c. 198.56 rpm
d. 211.45 rpm 77. Determine the length L of the
submerged buoy.
SITUATION: A tank contains oil (s =
0.80), gasoline (s = 0.90) and sea a. 2.33 m
water (s = 1.03). If the depths of the b. 1.75 m
liquids are 0.5 m ,0.8 m and 1 for oil,
gasoline, and sea water respectively. c. 1.5 m

74. Determine the pressure at a depth d. 2 m

of 1.2 m
78. Determine the angle with the
a. 19.62 kPa horizontal at which the buoy will lean
assuming the rock exerts no moment on
b. 10.10 kPa the buoy.
c. 15.74 kPa a. 45°
d. 18.33 kPa b. 53°
75. Determine the pressure at the c. 55°
depth of 1.8 m.
d. 59°
a. 17.55 kPa
SITUATION: An open tank 3 m by 3 m in
b. 18.07 kPa horizontal section weighs 3.6 kN and
contains water to a depth of 1 m. It
is acted by an unbalanced force of 16
kN parallel to a pair of sides.
79. Determine the acceleration of the
tank.
a. 1.71 m/s2
b. 2.76 m/s2
c. 3.54 m/s2
d. 1.59 m/s2
80. Determine the height of the tank
so that no water will spill out.
a. 2.44 m
b. 1.26 m
c. 1.82 m
d. 2.05 m