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Geotechnical Engineering

Quiz 4

DIRECTION: Encircle the letter of the correct answer. STRICTLY NO ERASURE.

Situation 1: For a constant permeability on a fine sand, the following data are given:

Length of Specimen = 15 cm

Diameter of the specimen = 10 cm

Constant Head difference = 40 cm

Volume of water collected in 5 min = 500 cc

Void Ratio of the Soil Specimen = 0.5

1. Determine the coefficient of permeability k of the soil in cm/sec

a. 1.445 x10-3
b. 3.556 x10-3
c. 7.958 x10-3
d. 8.996 x10-3
2. Determine the discharge velocity in cm/min.
a. 0.021
b. 0.777
c. 0.567
d. 0.677
3. Determine the seepage velocity in cm/min
a. 0.064
b. 0.899
c. 0.123
d. 0.889

Situation 2: A permeable soil layer is underlain by an impervious layer. For permeable layer K=4.8 x10-3
cm/sec. If H=3m and the angle if inclination of the soil layer is 5 degrees with respect to the horizontal.

4. Determine the hydraulic gradient.

a. 0.789
b. 1.455
c. 0.087
 d. 0.567
5. Determine the rate of seepage.
a. 0.012 cu.m/hr/m
b. 0.045 cu.m/hr/m
c. 0.067 cu.m/hr/m
d. 0.123 cu.m/hr/m

Situation 3: An aquifer has a hydraulic conductivity if 40 m/day and its porosity is 0.25. The piezometric
head in the two wells 1000m apart is 65m and 60m. The average thickness of the aquifer is 25m and the
average width is 4km.

6. Calculate the rate of seepage.

a. 10000 cu.m/day
b. 15788 cu.m/day
c. 20000 cu.m/day
d. 5000 cu.m/day
7. Calculate the seepage velocity.
a. 0.5 m/day
b. 0.3 m/day
c. 0.6 m/day
d. 0.8 m/day

Situation 4: A certain soil strata has the following data as shown in the table below.

Height K
3m 1x10 x10-4 cm/sec
5m 3x10 x10-2 cm/sec
2m 2.5x10 x10-4 cm/sec

8. Determine the equivalent horizontal hydraulic conductivity.

a. 10.98 x10-3 cm/sec
b. 12.98 x10-3 cm/sec
c. 4.0 x10-3 cm/sec
d. 15.08 x10-3 cm/sec
9. Determine the equivalent vertical hydraulic conductivity.
a. 1.67 x10-4 cm/sec
b. 1.88 x10-4 cm/sec
c. 1.6 x10-4 cm/sec
d. 2.62 x10-4 cm/sec
10. It states the relationship between discharge velocity through saturated soils and hydraulic
conductivity.
a. Bernoulli’s Equation
b. Hazen Equation
c. Darcy’s Law
d. Cozeny-Karman equation
Situation 5: The figure shows a layer of soil in a tube that is 100mm x 100mm in cross section. Water is
supplied to maintain a constant head difference of 400mm across the sample. The hydraulic conductivities
of the soils in the direction of flow is as follows:

Soil K(cm/sec) Porosity, n

A 1 x 10-2 25
B 3 x 10-3 32
C 4.9 x 10-4 22

11. Calculate the equivalent hydraulic conductivity in cm/sec.

a. 0.006699
b. 0.001111
c. 0.002553
d. 0.001057
12. Calculate the rate of water supply in cu.cm/hr.
a. 225.6
b. 100.3
c. 304.4
d. 125.5
13. Calculate the seepage velocity through soil C.
a. 0.123 cm/sec
b. 0.566 cm/sec
c. 0.384 cm/sec
d. 0.223 cm/sec

Situation 6: A well is constructed to pump water from a confined aquifer. The observation wells are
constructed at a distance of 100m and 1000m respectively. Water is pump from the pumping well at a
rate of 0.2 cu.m/min. At steady state, the drawdown as observed are 2m and 8m respectively in the
farthest and nearest observation wells. Diameter of the test well is 1m, thickness of the aquifer is 20m.
 14. Determine the hydraulic conductivity in cm/sec.
a. 2.36 x 10-4 cm/sec
b. 2.55 x 10-4 cm/sec
c. 1.5 x 10-4 cm/sec
d. 1.02 x 10-3 cm/sec
15. Determine the transmissivity of the aquifer in cm2/sec.
a. 1.035
b. 1.253
c. 2.036
d. 2.063
16. Determine the drawdown in the test well.
a. 15.55 m
b. 18.56 m
c. 10.23 m
d. 21.81 m

Situation 7: The sheet pile is driven as shown and the area to one side is pumped down as shown in the
flownet. The permeability of the sand is 0.001 m/sec. Below elevation 20m is an impermeable rock.

17. Determine the flow per unit length.

a. 0.0023 cu.m/sec/m
b. 0.0033 cu.m/sec.m
c. 0.0015 cu.m/sec/m
d. 0.0055 cu.m/sec/m
18. Determine the pressure head at A.
a. 2.2 m
b. 1.25 m
 c. 5.5 m
d. 2.3 m

Situation 8: The discharge of water collected from a constant head permeameter in a period of 15 mins is
500 ml. The internal diameter of the permeameter is 5cm and the measured difference in head between
two gauging points 15 cm vertically apart is 40 cm.
19. Calculate the coefficient of permeability
a. 0.106
b. 0.551
c. 0.191
d. 0.775
20. If the dry weight of the 15 cm long sample is 4.86 N and the specific gravity of the solids is 2.65,
calculate the seepage velocity (mm/s).
a. 0.106
b. 0.551
c. 0.191
d. 0.775
ANSWER KEY:

1.C

2.A

3.A

4.C

5.B

6.C

7.D

8.D

9.D

10.C

11.D

12.C

13.C

14.D

15.C

16.D

17.C

18.C

19.A

20.D