Republic of the Philippines

CAVITE STATE UNIVERSITY-CCAT CAMPUS

Rosario, Cavite
DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING

FLUID MECHANICS
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FIFTH MODULE AND ACTIVITY

ENGR. LEANDRO T. SAAVEDRA

LECTURER

October 2020
First Semester
 Activity Number 10

A 50 ft high, trapezoidal, masonry dam is 1.525 m thick at the top and 10.976
m at the bottom. Its upstream face has a batter of 3.049 m in 50 ft .
Assuming no hydrostatic uplift with water up to the top. Determine the
resultant pressure in psf at the heel and the toe. Is the dam safe against
sliding if the coefficient of friction is 0.60? Take masonry at 160 pcf .

Water Surface

50 ft
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3.049 m 6.402 m
1.525 m

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 Activity Number 10

Given the section of a gravity dam on impervious foundation as shown in

the figure, determine the maximum and minimum pressures on the
foundation.

Water Surface

2 ft

6 ft
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A B toe

heel
2 ft 2 ft

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 ARCHIMEDES’ PRINCIPLE

Any body immersed in a fluid is subjected to an upward force called

buoyant force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid. This force is
concentrated in the vertical line through the centroid of the displaced
volume, called the center of buoyancy.

In applying Archimedes Principle, two precautions must be

observed:

 The buoyant force is merely the resultant of all vertical

components of hydrostatic pressure on the body; hence there must
be portions of the surface of the immersed body on which vertical
components of hydrostatic pressure can act, otherwise there can
be no buoyant force.
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 Archimedes principle applies directly to a body immersed in a

homogeneous fluid. However, if portions of the body are in
different fluids, the vertical components of hydrostatic pressures
must be computed separately.

FLUID MECHANICS ENGR. LEANDRO T. SAAVEDRA

 Activity Number 11

In the figure, cube A is 12 inches along each edge and weighs 100 lb. It is
attached to the square prism B which is 6 inches by 8 ft and weighs
30 lb per cubic feet . What length of B will project above the liquid surface?

Specific gravity of liquid is 1.5.

6 ft

Liquid Surface

8 ft B

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( s=1.5)

12 ft A

12 ft

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