Faculty of Engineering and Computing, Curtin Ui versity of Technology ELUID MECHANIC 0, For Chemical, Civil and Mechanical Engineering TUTORIAL (Hydrostatics) (For ease of calculation, take the density of water to be 1000 kg/m* and gravitational acceleration to have the value 10 m/s* throughout) 1 In Fig.1 the cross-sectional areas of the tank ancl the tube are 0.2 and 0.01 m? respectively and the Kiquid is water, (a) Caleulate the total force on the bottom of the tank due to the water pressure (0) Compute the total weight of the water. (c) Why is there a difference between the two forces calculated in (a) and (b)... and which answer is correct? (This puzzled Pascal who considered it a paradox.) [Ans. (a) 1200 N, (b) 250 N] Figure 12 Figure 2 shows a small dam structure holding a reservoir of water; at points A and B, the connections are freely hinged. Figure 1 (2) Show that the compressive force (per unit width of dam), P, in the strut is given by: ~ e088 (b) Find the x- and y-components of the force (per unit. width of dam) experie A ced by the structure at ‘Ans. (b) pgh?/6 to the left and pgh? /(3.cos#) downwards} 3 Figure 8 shows the cross-section of a dam holding a reservoir of water. The wetted surface of the dam wall is curved; it has the form of an are of a circle of radius 12 m. The width (into the paper) of the dam is 10m Figure 3 Find the total force of the water on the dam and the direction in which this force acts. (Hint: find the horizontal and vertical components of the force separately.) [Ans. 13.41 x 10° N (13.41 MN) acting at 57.5° down from the horizontal to the right]4A brick restsdn the bottom of a rowing boat that is floating on a small lake. The brick is then thrown out into the water and it sinks to the bottom of the lake. After the brick has sunk, is the water level of the lake higher or lower than when the brick was in the boat? (Justify your answer with a logical argument based on buoyancy.) 5 A barge has uniform rectangular cross-section of width 2L and a vertical draft of height H, as shown in Fig. 4. Its centre of mass is at the waterline and is marked G. Figure 4 {a) Find the buoyancy force, Fa, pet unit length (into the paper); through which point in the cross-section does it equivalently act? (b) Sketch the barge cross-section after it has rolled anticlockwise through an angle A@ about the point G, Indicate the new position of the centre of buoyancy and locate the position of the metacentre (©) Find the horizontal distance, 1, of the new centre of buoyancy from G. {Hint: locate the centroid of the barge area below the waterline, Also recall that for small A, then sin (A@) A@, tan (AM) s AO and cos (0) = L) (Ans. 0= (L2/3H ~ H/2)40) (a) Hence, show that metacentric height is given by EH ingi= = 8 (@) Find the range of L/H for which the barge is statically stable [Ans. L > 1.2251]