Republic of the Philippines BATTERY – 2

GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
University of Eastern Philippines
AND HYDRAULICS
College of Engineering
SET - A
CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT Prepared by:
University Town, Northern Samar Engr. JONATHAN C. BULAGAO

PROBLEM 1 total axial compressive stress reaches 44 kPa. Obtain the

Approximately how many times in the pressure of angle of friction of the soil.
mercury greater than the pressure exerted by water? a. 27.40° c. 25.02°
a. 15.4 c. 13.6 b. 20.22° d. 22.02°
b. 8.2 d. 9.8 PROBLEM 8
PROBLEM 2 If air had a constant unit weight of 12 N/m3, what is the
A container is filled with 3 m of kerosene having unit decrease in pressure of an aircraft climbing at an altitude
weight of 9 kN/m3 and 7 m of water. Obtain the gage of 3 km?
pressure at the interface of the two liquids. a. 32 kPa c. 36 kPa
a. 27 kPa c. 68.67 kPa b. 48 kPa d. 24 kPa
b. 95.67 kPa d. 57 kPa PROBLEM 9
PROBLEM 3 At the foot of a mountain, a mercury (sg = 13.63)
An icerberg with specific gravity of 0.9 floats in seawater barometer reads 800 mmHg and at the same instant at the
with 500 cubic meters above the water surface. Evaluate top of the mountain a barometer reads 500 mmHg.
the total volume of iceberg of the specific gravity of Assuming air had constant unit weight of 12.01 N/m 3,
seawater is 1.03. what is the approximate height of the mountain?
a. 3692 m3 c. 3296 m3 a. 3320 m c. 3330 m
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b. 3962 m d. 2936 m3 b. 3310 m d. 3340 m
PROBLEM 4 PROBLEM 10
A cylindrical tank 2.5 m in diameter and 3 m tall is two- Lacking of mercury, an improvised barometer uses a
thirds full of water. Compute the time (in minutes) to liquid that weighs 0.735 times that of mercury. Assuming
empty the tank after opening the 50-mm diameter orifice that the unit weight of air is constant at 12 N/m3, evaluate
located at the tank bottom. Assume Cc = Cv = 1.0. the approximate height of the mountain if the barometer
a. 37.6 c. 26.6 readings are 600 mm at the base and 850 mm at the top of
b. 28.6 d. 27.6 the mountain.
PROBLEM 5 a. 2040 c. 2010
The porosity of a soil sample is 40%. What is the void b. 2080 d. 2020
ratio? PROBLEM 11
a. 66.7% c. 73.2% A piece of wood of s.g. 0.63 is 70 mm square and 150 cm
b. 28.6% d. 56.8% long. How many Newtons of lead weighing 110 kN/m 3
PROBLEM 6 must be fastened at one end of the stick so that it will float
Evaluate the plastic settlement, in meters, in a layer of upright with 0.30 m out of water?
plastic clay due to an increase of pressure caused by loads a. 13.46 N c. 20.12 N
above it under the following conditions: b. 16.52 N d. 19.23 N
Initial interangular pressure = 180 kPa PROBLEM 12
Increase in interangular pressure = 140 kPa A rectangular wooden block (unit weight of 3 kN/m 3) is
Thickness of the clay layer = 8 m 0.6 m square and 3 m long. Obtain the vertical force
Coefficient of consolidation = 0.3 required to keep the block in upright position and fully
Void ratio of the clay = 1.134 submerge in water.
a. 0.281 c. 0.247 a. 4.36 kN c. 7.35 kN
b. 0.325 d. 0.397 b. 5.25 kN d. 6.32 kN
PROBLEM 7 PROBLEM 13
A triaxial test is performed on a cohesionless soil. The A bucket in an elevator contains 0.5 m of water. Obtain
chamber pressure is 20 kPa and the soil fails when the the pressure at the bottom of the bucket when the elevator
accelerates downward at 2 m/s2.

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GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
University of Eastern Philippines
AND HYDRAULICS
College of Engineering
SET - A
CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT Prepared by:
University Town, Northern Samar Engr. JONATHAN C. BULAGAO
a. 5.9 kPa c. 6.3 kPa a. 24.3° c. 20.7°
b 3.9 kPa d. 10.2 kPa b. 26.7° d. 28.4°
PROBLEM 14 PROBLEM 21
A cylindrical tank 4 m in diameter and 3 m tall is full of A prestressed concrete pile 400 mm x 400 mm in cross-
water. Obtain the time (in minutes) to drain the tank section and 20 m long is driven in clayey soil with
through a 50-mm diameter orifice at the tank bottom. unconfined compression strength qu = 180 kPa. Compute
Assume C = 1.0. the skin friction resistance using an adhesion factor α = 1.
a. 83.4 c. 82.4 a. 2880 kN c. 960 kN
b. 85.6 d. 76.9 b. 860 kN d. 2160 kN
PROBLEM 15 PROBLEM 22
Storm water flows at the rate of 2 m 3/s in a triangular A container contains a certain liquid with unit weight of
canal with vertex angle of 60°. Obtain the critical depth 7 kN/m3 to a depth of 4 m. Water is poured into the
of flow. container and the total depth of the liquid is now 6 m.
a. 0.925 m c. 1.245 m What is the gage pressure at the interface of the two
b. 1.021 m d. 1.196 m liquids?
PROBLEM 16 a. 28 kPa c. 47.62 kPa
Using the most efficient section, what depth of triangular b. 19.62 kPa d. 21 kPa
flume is required for a flow of 2 m3/s. Use n = 0.018 and PROBLEM 23
S = 0.21%. A barometer at the top of the mountain 400 m above sea
a. 1.286 m c. 1.325 m level reads 700 mm of mercury (sg = 13.6). What is the
b. 1.185 m d. 0.952 m atmospheric pressure at the point in kPa?
PROBLEM 17 a. 93.4 c. 95.7
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a b. 85.4 d. 101.3
cohesionless soil? PROBLEM 24
a. easy to compact A tank in an elevator with water at a depth of 0.40 m is
a. high shear strength accelerated at 2 m/s2. What is the pressure at the bottom
a. prone to settlement due to vibrating load of the tank if the elevator moves downward?
b. practically impermeable a. 3.57 kPa c. 4.36 kPa
PROBLEM 18 b. 5.78 kPa d. 3.12 kPa
In a standard penetration test, medium dense sand have PROBLEM 25
number of blows of: A rectangular hate has a base width of 1 m and altitude of
a. 4 to 10 c. 30 to 50 2.4 m. The short side of the gate is flushed with the water
b. 10 to 30 d. over 50 surface. Obtain the location of the total force of water on
PROBLEM 19 the gate measured from its centroid.
Given the following data of a clay layer: a. 0.6 m c. 0.3 m
H=8m P0 = 200 kPa b. 0.8 m d. 0.4 m
Cc = 0.318 ΔP = 300 kPa PROBLEM 26
e = 1.138 A rectangular plate is submerged vertically in two layers
Obtain the settlement of the normally consolidated clay. of liquids. Half of the plate is submerged in water and the
a. 0.360 m c. 0.425 m other half is in oil (sg = 0.84). The top of the gate is
b. 0.474 m d. 0.389 m flushed with liquid surface. Obtain the ratio of the force
PROBLEM 20 of water to the force of oil.
In a triaxial test on a cohesionless soil, the soil fails when a. 3.25 c. 3.19
the chamber pressure is 50 kPa and the maximum axial b 3.75 d. 3.52
stress reached 120 kPa. Obtain the angle of friction.

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 Republic of the Philippines BATTERY – 2
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
University of Eastern Philippines
AND HYDRAULICS
College of Engineering
SET - A
CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT Prepared by:
University Town, Northern Samar Engr. JONATHAN C. BULAGAO
PROBLEM 27 PROBLEM 35
A solid spherical ball with unit weight of 8.64 kN/m3 A blow count N = 6 was obtained at a certain depth of a
floates in dead sea (sg = 1.24). Find the percentage of the clay soil deposit. Estimate the unconfined compression
volume draft to its total volume. strength of the clay deposit.
a. 71.03% c. 65.47% Very Very
Consistency Soft Medium Stiff Hard
b. 75.36% d. 73.65% Soft Stiff
Unconfined
PROBLEM 28 100- 200-
compression 0 – 25 25-50 50-100
A cube has a side of 600 mm. What force is required to strength
200 400

completely submerge the cube in water if its specific Standard

gravity is 0.80? Penetration
a. 653 N c. 424 N Resistance,
0–2 2–4 4–8 8 – 16 16 – 32
b. 1824 N d. 3814 N N blows per
foot (305
PROBLEM 29 mm)
A sphere of radius 400 mm is immersed in seawater (sg = Unit Weight
3 11 to 15 15 to 17 17 to 24 >24
1.028) by anchoring it to the bottom of seabed. The in kN/m

mooring line was observed to have tension of 80 N. a. 60 c. 75

Evaluate the specific weight of the sphere in kN/m3. b. 70 d. 62.5
a. 11.48 c. 10.38 PROBLEM 36
b. 9.52 d. 12.36 Atterberg limit tests is done on aggregates that pass
PROBLEM 30 through what sieve size?
A ship, with vertical sides near the water line, weighs 40 a. 20 c. 60
MN and draws 6.7 m in salt water (sg = 1.026). Discharge b. 40 d. 30
of 2 MN of water ballast decreases the draft to 6.4 m. PROBLEM 37
What would be the draft d of the ship in fresh water? In a bakery, water is forced though pipe A at 150 liters
a. 6.854 m c. 6.458 m per second. Oil (sg = 0.8) is forced through pipe B at 30
b 6.632 m d. 6.548 m liters per second. Assume ideal mixing of incompressible
PROBLEM 31 fluids and the mixture of oil and water from globules and
A vertical jet of water leaves a nozzle under a constant exits through pipe C. valuate the specific gravity of the
head of 25 m and diameter of 30 mm. How high above mixture exiting through pipe C.
the nozzle tip can it support at load of 300 N? a. 0.856 c. 0.976
a. 6.29 m c. 7.32 m b. 0.967 d. 0.865
b. 6.87 m d. 5.24 m PROBLEM 38
PROBLEM 32 Obtain the diameter of a pipe carry 30 liters per second
The ratio of volume of voids to the total volume of soil. with a head loss of 0.5 m in a length of 300 m. The
a. porosity c. degree of saturation coefficient of friction is 0.025.
b. void ratio d. water content a. 0.385 m c. 0.315 m
b. 0.257 m d. 0.235 m
PROBLEM 33
The ratio of the volume of water to the volume of voids. PROBLEM 39
a. porosity c. degree of saturation Water flows through a trapezoidal irrigation canal, 500
b. void ratio d. water content mm deep by 2 m wide at the top 1 m wide at the bottom,
at the rate of 80 m3/min. Determine the mean velocity of
PROBLEM 34
the flow in m/sec.
A soil has a specific gravity of 2.5, degree of saturation of
a. 2.32 c. 106.7
40%, and void ratio of 0.40. Obtain the unit weight of the
b. 1.78 d. 85.3
soil in kN/m3.
a. 18.21 c. 19.32
b. 17.52 d. 18.64
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 Republic of the Philippines BATTERY – 2
GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
University of Eastern Philippines
AND HYDRAULICS
College of Engineering
SET - A
CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT Prepared by:
University Town, Northern Samar Engr. JONATHAN C. BULAGAO
PROBLEM 40 a. 0.66 c. 0.57
A soil layer has thickness of 9 m and natural void ratio 1. b. 0.98 d. 0.52
Obtain the change in soil thickness if the void ratio is PROBLEM 47
decreased by one-fourth. To determine the volume of an irregularly shaped object
a. 4.26 m c. 3.75 m that weighs 300 N in air, the engineer completely
b. 3.38 m d. 5.25 m submerged it in fresh water and observed that the weight
PROBLEM 41 was reduced to 230 N. Evaluate the volume of the object
Evaluate the plastic settlement, in meters, in a layer of in m3.
plastic clay due to an increase of pressure caused by loads a. 0.00891 c. 0.01092
above it under the following conditions: b. 0.00714 d. 0.00681
Initial interangular pressure = 200 kPa PROBLEM 48
Increase in interangular pressure = 150 kPa In any stream flowing steadily without friction the total
Thickness of the clay layer = 10 m energy contained is the same ar every point in its path of
Coefficient of consolidation = 0.315 flow. This principle is attributed to:
Void ratio of the clay = 1.5 a. Bernoulli c. Pascal
a. 0.568 c. 0.306 b. Archimedes d. Boyle
b. 0.384 d. 0.425
PROBLEM 49
PROBLEM 42 A cylindrical bucket 200 mm in diameter and 300 mm
Determine the angle of friction of the soil if the Rankine high is 2/3 full of water. It is swung in a vertical plane so
coefficient of active force is 0.50. that the bottom of the bucket describes a radius of 1 m.
a. 19.65° c. 19.47° How fast should the bucket be rotated in rpm so that no
b. 18.25° d. 20.14° water is spilled? Neglect the weight of the bucket.
PROBLEM 43 a. 27.89 rpm c. 31.53 rpm
A prestressed concrete pile 400 mm x 400 mm in cross- b. 33.78 rpm d. 22.25 rpm
section and 20 m long is driven in clayey soil with PROBLEM 50
unconfined compression strength q u = 110 kPa. Compute The pressure exerted onto a liquid is transmitted
the skin friction using an adhesion α = 0.75. undiminished to all portions of the liquid. This principle
a. 1320 kN c. 1480 kN of mechanics is attributed to:
b. 1540 kN d. 1240 kN a. Bernoulli c. Pascal
PROBLEM 44 b. Archimedes d. Boyle
According to NSCP, cut and fill slopes must not be
steeper than:
a. 1 to 3 c. 1 to 5
b. 1 to 1 d. 1 to 2
PROBLEM 45
An open tank contains a liquid 5 m deep of unit weight of
7 kN/m3. Water is poured over the liquid and the total
depth of both liquid is 8 m. Obtain the gage pressure in
kPa at the bottom of the tank.
a. 64.43 kPa c. 69.78 kPa
b. 54.43 kPa d. 59.78 kPa
PROBLEM 46
A soil sample has a unit weight of 21.1 kN/m 3 at a
moisture content of 9.8%. When completely saturated the
unit weight becomes 22.58 kN/m3. Evaluate the void ratio
of the soil.