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1. (Incomplete answers are wrong.) Solve this system : 4x + 2y = -1 , 5x – 3y = 7

2. If kinetic energy is not conserved, the collision is called ___ .

ANSWER: Inelastic

3. What error results on a 50 m. sight with a level if the rod reading is 1.505 m but the top of the 3 m rod is 0.3 m
out of the plumb?

4. Two pumps are being considered for purchase. If the interest is 7%, how much is the annual cost for pump B?
5. Two masses m1 = 5 kg and m2 = 10 kg have velocities u1 = 2m/s in the +x direction and u2 = 4 m/s in the +y
direction. They collide and stick together. What is their final velocity after collision?

6. Integrate:

sin ln cos

7. Determine the volume of a solid metal cone base radius 0.5 m and a perpendicular height of 1.2 m. Answer
in TWO Significant digits.

8. From station 40 + 160 with center height of 1.4 m in fill the ground makes a uniform slope of 5% to sta. 40+220
whose center height is 2.8 m cut. How far in meters from Sta. 40 + 160 toward the other station will the filling
extend?
9. Assume that the number of barbeque dinners that can be sold , x, can be replaced to the price charged, p ,
by the equation p(x) = 9 – 0.03x , 0 ≤ x ≤ 300. On the this case, the revenue in dollars is obtained from selling x
barbeque dinners is given by R(x) = xp(x) = x(9- 0.03x) for 0 ≤ x ≤ 300. Find the marginal revenue function to
estimate the revenue obtained from selling the 101st barbeque dinner.

10. Ms. Brown deposits $1000 in the bank at the end of the first year, $1200 at the end of the second year, etc.,
continuing to increase the amount by $200 a year, for 20 years. If the bank pays 7% per year, compounded
continuously, how much money will have accumulated at the end of 20 years?

11. (INCOMPLETE ANSWERS are wrong) Find the dimensions of the largest rectangular lot that can be enclosed
by 100 yards of fencing.
12. A ship is sailing due east when a light is observed bearing N 62° 10” E. After the ship has traveled 2250 m., the
light bears N 48° 25’ E. If the course is continued, how close will the ship approach the light?

13. It is the layer found in estuaries or on the continental shelf close to the coast.
ANSWER: FLUID MUD OR FLUID MUD LAYER

14. (INCOMPLETE ANSWERS ARE WRONG) The difference of two numbers is 22. Find the numbers so that their
product is to be minimum.

15. A man’s eyes 1.75 m above sea level can barely see the top of a lighthouse which is at a certain distance
away from a man. What is the elevation of the top of the lighthouse above sea level if the lighthouse is 20 km
away from the man ?

16. A farmer has 7 cows, 8 sheep and 6 goats, how many goats should be bought so that half of her animals will
be goats?

17. A highway curve has a super elevation of 7° . Find the radius of the curve so that there will be no lateral
pressure between the tires and the roadway at a speed of 40 mph?
18. (INCOMPLETE ANSWERS ARE WRONG) Solve for x : |x – 7 | = 2

19. If you borrowed P 10,000 from a bank with 18% interest per annum, what is the total amount to be repaid at
the end of one year?

20. The tangent length of a simple curve is 202.12 m and the deflection angle for a 30 m chord is 2° 18’.
Calculate the length of the curve.

21. Find the solutions of the differential equation:

+
=

22. Heather bought some artwork at an online auction for $ 400. She wants to resell the artwork on line and make
a profit of 40% of the cost. What price should she list on line to make her profit?
23. A particle of mass m is moving in a plane with constant radial velocity of magnitude r = 5 m/s and a constant
angular velocity of 4 rad/s . Determine the magnitude of the velocity when the particle is 3 m from the origin.

24. The costs of two different kinds of heating systems for a two bedroom home are given in the table:

After how many years will total costs for the solar heating be the same?

25. A textile mill has just purchased a lift truck that has a useful life of five years. The engineer estimates that
maintenance costs for the truck during the first year will be $1,000. As the truck ages, maintenance costs are
expected to increase at a rate of $250 per year over the remaining life. Assume that the maintenance costs
occur at the end of each year. The firm wants to set up a maintenance account that earns 12% annual
interest. All future maintenance expenses will be paid out of this account. How much does the firm have to
deposit in the account now?

26. It is a very short section of fully constructed shoulder or added lane that is provided to allow slow vehicles to
pull aside and be overtaken.
ANSWER: TURN-OUT

27. The distance between the center of the circles which are mutually tangent to each other externally are 10 ,
12 and 14 cm, respectively. Determine the area of the largest circle.

28. Astronomers detect stars that are rotating extremely rapidly, known as neutron stars. A neutron star is
believed to form from the inner core of a larger star that collapsed, under its own gravitation, to a star of very
small radius and very high density. Before collapse, suppose the core of such a star is the size of our Sun with
mass 2.0 times as great as the Sun, and is rotating at a frequency of 1.0 revolution every 100 days. If it were to
undergo gravitational collapse to a neutron star of radius 10 km, what would its rotation frequency be?
Assume the star is a uniform sphere at all times, and loses no mass.
29. From the given data of a distribution of breakdown per week of a certain machine, determine the number of
times this machine is expected to breakdown per week over a period of time.

30. The volume V of a cone varies jointly as the height h and the square of the radius r of the base. Find the
equation for the volume of a cone with height 6 centimeters and base diameter 10 centimeters that has a
volume of 50π cubic centimeters.

31. A manufacturer of TV buys TV cabinet at Rs. 500 each. In case the company makes it within the factory, the
fixed and variable costs would be Rs. 4,00,000 and Rs. 300 per cabinet respectively. Should the manufacturer
make or buy the cabinet if the demand is 1,500 TV cabinets?

32. Find the eccentricity of the ellipse 9x^2 + 16^y = 144.

33. Using a 50 m tape that is 0.02 m long, the measured distance from A to B is 160.42 m. What is the correct
distance from A to B?

34. Evaluate this limit:

5−
lim
, → , 4+ +

35. It is an instrument for directly measuring small areas bounded by an irregular curve.
ANSWER: PLANIMETER
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1. In the figure shows four vertical load of 1000 kN places at the corners of a square
of a side 5 m. Determine the increase of vertical stress 5 m below at the center of
the square.

2. A pipeline of 300 mm ∅ carrying water at an average velocity of 4.5 m/s branches

into two pipes of 150 mm and 200 mm diameters. If the average velocity in the 150
mm pipe is 5∕8 of the velocity in the main pipeline, determine the average velocity
of flow in the 200 mm pipe and the total flow rate in the system shown.

3. A normally loaded soft clay of low sensitivity has a liquid limit of 57%. Estimate
the compression index.
4. A rectangular foundation in a saturated clay measures 1.5 x 3 m. Given Df = 1.8 m ,
cu = 52 kN/m^2 and γ = 18.9 kN/m^3. Estimate the uplift capacity.

5. Oil, with a vapor pressure of 20 kPa, is delivered through a pipeline by equally

spaced pumps, each of which increases the oil pressure by 1.3 MPa. Friction losses
in the pipe are 150 Pa per meter of pipe. What is the maximum possible pump spacing
to avoid cavitation of the oil?

6. In a stability of floating bodies, the weight is removed and the bar is made heavy
enough to become completely submerged in the liquid so that the weight and buoyant
force are balance, then its center of gravity and center of buoyancy will coincide.
This refers as _______________ .
ANSWER: Neutral Equilibrium

7. A canal and a river run parallel an average of 250 ft apart. The elevation of the
water surface in the canal is +1050 ft and in the river +1021 ft. A stratum of sand
intersects both the river and the canal below their water levels as shown in the
figure. The sand is 6 ft thick and is sandwiched between strata of impervious clay.
Compute the seepage loss in ft^3/day-mile if the permeability of the sand is 2 x
10^-3 ft/sec.
8. A catchment has eight rain gauge stations. The annual rainfall recorded by these
gauges in a given year listed in the column.

What should be the minimum number of rain gauges in the catchment for estimating
the mean rainfall with an error of less than 7%?
9. A soil has the coefficient of permeability of 4.75 x 10^-2 mm/sec at 30° C. Determine
the value at 27° C. Use coefficient of viscosities at 30℃ and 27℃ as 8 and 8.5
milli poise respectively.

10. The Atterberg limits of a soil are LL = 70 and PL = 35 and it contains 80% by weight
of clay. The water content of a sample is 45%. Determine the Activity of the soil .

11. In a bulk density determination, a sample of clay with a mass of 683g was coated
with wax. The combined mass of the clay and the wax was 690.6g. The volume of the
clay and the wax was found, by immersion in water, to be 350ml. The sample was then
broken open and water content and particle specific gravity tests gave respectively
17% and 2.73. The specific gravity of the wax was 0.89. Determine the degree of
saturation.

12. A gas is contained in a vertical, frictionless piston– cylinder device. The piston
has a mass of 4 kg and a cross-sectional area of 35 cm^2. A compressed spring above
the piston exerts a force of 60 N on the piston. If the atmospheric pressure is 95
kPa, determine the pressure inside the cylinder.
13. A 0.36 m^2 prestressed concrete pile is to be driven in a clayey soil as shown in
the figure. The design capacity of the pile is 360 kN , with a factor of safety of
2. Compute the length of the pile if α = 0.76.

14. A coarse-sand sample is 15 cm high and has 5.5 cm diameter. It is placed in a

constant-head permeameter. Water passes through the sample under a constant head of
40 cm and after 6 sec, 40g of water has been collected. What is the coefficient of
permeability of the sand?
15. A worker in children’s playground is cleaning a slide with a hose. She observes that
a horizontal stream directed into the low end climbs to a point 12 ft above the
nozzle. What is the nozzle velocity of the stream?

16. A sand sample has a porosity of 30% and the specific gravity of 2.7. Compute the
effective unit weight of the submerged sand.
17. It states that the velocity at which water flows varies as the permeability, in
order to maintain a specified hydraulic gradient such as unity.
ANSWER: DARCY’S LAW

18. A piezometer is used to measure the pressure in a pipe to be 20 cm of water. A pitot

tube measures the total pressure to be 33 cm of water at the same general location.
Estimate the velocity of the water in the pipe.

19. If the vertical component of the landing velocity of a parachute is equal to that
acquired during a free fall of 2 m, find the diameter of the open parachute (hollow
hemisphere) if the total weight of parachute and the person is 950 N. Assume for
air at ambient conditions, Density = 1.2 kg/m^3 and Cd = 1.35

20. A barge 20 ft wide and 50 ft long is loaded with rocks as shown. Assume that the
center of gravity of the rocks and barge is located along the centerline at the top
surface of the barge. If the rocks and the barge weigh 400,000 lbf, will the barge
float upright or tip over?

21. If the retaining wall 5 m high is restrained from yielding, what will be the at-
rest earth pressure per meter length of wall? Given: The backfill is cohesionless
soil having ϕ = 30° and γ = 18 kn/m^3.
22. Following are the details for the backfill used in a vibrofloatation project:
D_10 = 0.36 mm
D_20 = 0.52 mm
D_50 = 1.42 mm

Determine the suitability number.

23. Gravel is dumped from a hopper, at a rate of 650 N/s, onto a moving belt, as in
figure shown. The gravel then passes off the end of the belt. The drive wheels are
80 cm in diameter and rotate clockwise at 150 r/min. Neglecting system friction and
air drag, estimate the power required to drive this belt.

24. A pontoon 5 x 5 x 2 m floats in water with draft of 1.5 m. An orifice at the bottom
of the pontoon is 15 cm in diameter with coefficient of discharge of C = 0.60.
Determine the time required for the pontoon to sink its top after opening the orifice
at the bottom.
25. A tank of oil has a right triangular panel near the bottom, as shown in the figure.
Find the hydrostatic force.

26. The intensity of normal contact stress at the base of founding due to all loads
above that level is called ____________
ANSWER: GROSS BEARING STRESS

27. A 27.50 lb soil has a volume of 0.220 ft^3, a moisture content of 10.2% and a
specific gravity of solids of 2.65. Compute the degree of saturation.

28. Compute the flow rate through soil beneath the concrete dam shown if the permeability
of the soil is 3.2 x 10^-4 cm/s.
29. It calculates the weighted average of the precipitation data based on the weightage
give to the area closest to the gauging station.
ANSWER: Thiessen Mean Method

30. In a series – parallel pipe connections, pipes 1,3, and 5 are in series while 2,3,4
are parallel to each other. Pipe 1 carries a discharge of 0.5 m^3/s as shown in the
figure. If f = 0.02 for all pipelines, compute the flow in pipeline 2.
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SEAC: (Note: You may refer to the code provisions and tables especially in Steel and RCD. In RCD , NSCP 2010 and 2015 will be used while in steel
design, AISC Code and NSCP 2015 will be used.)

1. A 2L x 4 x 1/2 (3/8 inch separation) ASTM A36, has one line of 8 , 3/4 inch diameter bolts and is 25 ft in length as shown. The double
angle is carrying a dead load of 40 kips and a live load of 120 kips . Estimate the ultimate tensile strength using LRFD method. For A36
steel , Fy = 36 ksi and Fu = 58 ksi.

2. Determine the LRFD Strength design for the 50 ksi axially loaded W 14 x 90 as shown in the figure.
3. A barge shown , diagrammatically supports the load W1 and W2 for every one meter strip along the longitudinal section. W1 = 145
kN.m , W2 = 290 kN/m , L1 and L3 = 3 m , L2 = 6m. Find the total length L so that the upward pressure us uniform and that the barge
remains horizontal.

4. A steel cube is subjected to a hydrostatic pressure of 1.5 MPa. Because of this pressure the volume decreases to give a dilatation of –10^–
5. The Young’s modulus of the material is 200 GPa. Determine Poisson’s ratio of the material and also the bulk modulus.

5. These are for the protection of workers from impact penetration from falling and flying objects, blows, and from limited electric shock and
burns shall be provided where there is reasonable probability of exposure to such hazards.
ANSWER : HARD HATS

6. Concrete beam 8meters long and spaced 4m center-to-center are used to support a concrete slab 115 mm thick. The beams have effective
depth of 650 mm measured from the slab surface, bw=300mm, and are reinforced for tension only with six 28-mm-diameter bars. The beams
are to be analyzed as T-beams. Steel yield strength fy=350MPa and concrete strength fc=21MPa. Find the nominal moment capacity in kN
meter.
7. A uniform bar AB weighing 424 lb , is fastened by a frictionless pin to a block weighing 200 lb as shown in the figure. At the vertical wall, f
= 0.268 while under the block f =0.20. Determine the force P needed to start motion to the right.

8. A short plastic tube is expected to carry up to a compressive force of 3000 N, and remain below 30% of the yield stress of 50 MPa. Available
tubes have a wall thickness of 1.5 mm with outer diameters in increments of 2 mm starting from 10 mm. Determine the actual factor of safety
of the stress relative to the yield stress. Assume the tube is short enough not to buckle under the compressive load.
9. A concrete one way slab has a total thickness of 120 mm. The slab will be reinforced with 12 mm ∅ with fy = 275 MPa. Concrete strength =
21 MPa. Determine the required steel area if the total factored moment acting on 1 m width of slab is 23 kN m. Concrete cover is 20 mm.

10. A decorative beam shown weighs 3.8 kN/m. It is simply supported on a span of 6 m. If the cracking moment of the beam is 34.6 kN.m, what
is the allowable load that the beam could carry?

11. An air-filled rubber ball has a diameter of 6 in. If the air pressure within it is increased until the ball’s diameter becomes 7 in., determine the
average normal strain in the rubber.
12. It is a viscous liquid used as a binder for aggregates in road construction.
ANSWER: ASPHALT OR BITUMINOUS SURFACE TREATMENT

13. A D ring is sewn on a backpack for use in securing miscellaneous items to the outside of the backpack. If the D ring has three cords tied to it
and the cords support the forces shown, determine the resultant force applied to the D ring by the cords, expressing the result as a vector.

14. A PL 3/8 x 7 tension member is connected with three 1 inch diameter bolts as shown in the figure. The steel is A 36. Assume that Ae = An ,
compute the design strength for LRFD.
15. For the Steel rigid frame in the figure shown, compute the rotation at B. Given that the E = 200 GPa and I = 80 x 10^6 mm^4.
16. According to PICE Manual, it is a process through which a civil engineer is selected above other competitors based on the proposal or an
innovative approach to solving a client’s needs.
ANSWER: DESIGN COMPETITION.

17. Find the moment of inertia about the centroidal axis x – x in the figure shown.

18. A rectangular beam reinforced for both compression and tension bars has an area of 1250 mm^2 for compression bars and 4032 mm^2 for
the tension bars. The tension bars are placed at a distance of 75 m from the bottom of the beam while the compression bars are placed 62.5
mm from the top of the beam. F’c = 20.7 MPa, fy = 414.6 MPa. Width of the beam is 350 mm and the total depth equal to 675 mm.
Calculate the depth of the compression block.
19. (INCOMPLETE ANSWERS ARE WRONG) The steel bars (E = 200 GPa in the truss shown in the figure have a cross sectional area of 100
mm^2. Determine the forces F1 and F2 if the displacements u and v of the pins in the x and y directions, respectively, are as given below.
20. Determine the moment gradient factor Cb for the beam shown in the figure.
21. A beam is constructed from four pieces of wood , glued together as shown. If the moment acting on the cross section is 450 N.m, compute the
resultant force the bending stress produces on the side board B.

22. A rectangular concrete 250 mm x 300 mm deep is prestressed by a force of 540 kN at a constant eccentricity of 60 mm. The beam supports
a concentrated load of 68 kN at the centre of a span of 3 m. Determine the location of pressure line at the center. Neglect the self weight of
the beam .
23. The cart has a weight of 2500 lb and a center of gravity at G. Determine the maximum positive moment created in the side girder at C as it
crosses the bridge. Assume the car can travel In either direction along the center of the deck, so that half its load is transferred to each of the
two side girders in the figure shown.

24. Under the normal conditions, the activities for a project and the corresponding duration are as follows:

What is the critical path?

ANSWER: A-C-G
25. Determine the diameter of an aluminium shaft which is designed to store the same amount of strain energy per unit volume as a 50mm
diameter steel shaft of the same length. Both shafts are subjected to equal compressive axial loads. Use E = 200 GPa for steel and E = 67
GPa for aluminum.

26. A rectangular concrete footing is to support a column 450 x 450 mm in cross section carrying a service dead load of 800 kN and a service
live load of 800 kN. The width of the footing is limited to 2 m. Allowable soil pressure is 250 kPa. The bottom of the footing is 1.3 m below
the ground surface. Unit weight of the soil is 15.5 kN/m^3 and for concrete is 23.5 kN/m^3. The total depth of footing is 645 mm with an
effective depth of 545 mm. f’c = 20 MPa and fy = 276 MPa. Find the length of the rectangular footing.

27. A lift and its passengers have a total mass of 400 kg. Find the tension of the cable supporting the lift when the lift is moving at constant speed.
Use g = 10.

28. The following shows a cross section of a wall footing and the required steel reinforcements. Columns are provided every 3 m of wall and 7
pcs width of CHB in between. Size of CHB is 150 mm x 200 mm x 400 mm. Compute the total number of CHB is required per panel of wall
with an allowance of 5% for breakage during installation.
29. A simply reinforced concrete beam reinforced for tension only has a width of 300 mm and a total depth of 600 mm. It is subjected to an
external moment Mu = 540 kN m, f’c = 28 MPa, fy = 280 MPa , E = 200 Gpa. Determine the balanced steel ratio.

30. The bar in the figure supported by a pin at A and a cable at B, carries a uniformly distributed load over its left half. Neglecting the weight
of the bar, determine the tension in the cable at B.
31. A W14 × 74 of A992 steel has a length of 20 feet and pinned ends. Compute the design compressive strength for LRFD.

32. Points A and B of the Mohr’s circle represent the stresses at the x-face and the y-face of the element respectively. What is the value of the
tensile stress σx ?

ANSWER: 30 MPa

33. According to National Building Code, this means the degree to which a material can withstand fire as determined by generally recognized
and accepted testing methods.
ANSWER : FIRE RESISTIVE RATING

34. The wood beam has an allowable shear stress of τallow = 7 MPa. Determine the maximum shear force V that can be applied to the cross
section.
35. A tripos supports the load W as shown. Determine the maximum load W that can be supported if the capacity of each leg is limited to 10
kN.