30 Elements of fluid mechanics unity. The use of a bearing of capacity 200 kN meets the safety require. ments over the whole range but, for a gate of fairly acute angle (i. about 30° half angle), the safety factor is exceeded by over 25%. For this reason a bearing of capacity 175 kN would be selected and the 4 sluice, gate would have a radius of 4 m and thus subtend a total angle of 60°. Example 2.3 METACENT: stability of floating body A toy company wishes to market a bath-time toy which will float, tilt and roll while still remaining stable. The: toy consists of a base into which fits a vertical mast and two movable weights, one of weight 0.2 N which locates in various places on the deck and the other which can be fixed anywhere on the mast. The complete toy weighs 2.5 N and is jz Figure 2,13 Floating bath-time toy shown in Figure 2.13. Three experiments conducted on the toy are Teported below. The angles of tilt of the toy with different deck weight locations for different mast weight positions are given together with the distance between the centre of gravity G and the bottom of the base Z. In each case the metacentric height must be evaluated and an estimate made of the maximum possible value of GZ such that the toy always fee Stable, thus enabling.the company to determine a suitable mast ght. The experimental data are as followsExample 2.3 METACENT: stability of floating body 31 5° SasPostrion of deck weight ic “> Angle of tilt (degrees) -., from centreline C *(rm) Exptl Expt 2 Expt3 5 - 2 09: 0.5 0.3 20 36 241 14 a5 6.4 39 2.7 50 86 5.4 3.8 GZ (mm) 1 75 58 LIsT METACENT © 2-JUL 110 FOR I=1 TON 190. SC1)=(NSA(N)-BCN) &CCN) )/(NSD(N)-BCND®B(ND) 200 GI) =(W2/1)#(180/PI)/S(I) 210 NEXT T . 290. PRINT - 300 PRINT *METACENTRIC HEIGHTS IN THE *#Hs*EXPERIMENTS* 360 GD TO 2000 pe iitAlad ad eee $08 eee souElements of fluid mechanics 1070 CEN P=CEK=294Y CK) 1OSOL DER I=D(K= 1) 4X CK) BX CKD 1090"! 1100 RETURN 2000 END HETACENT © 2-JUL-81 09:20:13 ESTIMATION OF METACENTRIC HT AND LIMIT OF C OF G TOTAL WEIGHT OF VESSEL (N)= 7 2.5 d= MOVEAELE YEIGHT (W)= 7 0.2 HOW MANY EXPERIMENTS? 7 3 HOW MANY PAIRS OF DATA POINTS PER EXPT? 7 4 METACENTRIC HEIGHTS IN THE 3 EXPERIMENTS 26.5463 31.6697 99.2669 MAX VALUE OF C OF G = 118.517 A READY Program notes (1) Data for the three experiments are given in lines 1-5. At lines 30— 100 the total vessel weight is input as W1, the movable weight as W2, the number of experiments conducted as M and the number of data points per experiment as N. (2) In the loop between lines 110 and 130 the first N data values (deck weight positions) are read as X(I). (3) At line 140 a loop (extending to line 210) commences in which the running variable I identifies the particular set of experimental data being analysed. A subsidiary loop starts at line 150 (closing at line 170) and reads the next N data points (angle of tilt) as Y(I). With these X and Y values read and stored the program on the command GOSUB at line 180 goes to a subroutine commencing at line 1000. (4) The subroutine evaluates the sums DX(K)Y(K), 2X(K), ZY(K) and =X(K)? as A(K), B(K), C(K), D(K) respectively where K runs from I to N (note that the variables A(K), B(K), C(K), D(K) are set to zero at the Start to initialise the summation), When the summations have been performed the program is returned (at line 1100) to the main bloc at line 199, oe dashed the slope of the graph of angle of tilt against deck saunas Rosition is evaluated as S(I) using the equation for a. least- it to a set of data points (see Figure 2.14(a)) and at line 200Example2.4 VENTCALIB: calibration of venturi meter’ ° 33 | the metacentric height is evaluated as-G(I) using Equation (2.11). At line 210 the-analysis of the particular experiment is completed-and the procedure is repeated for the retaining experiments. : (6) The second phase of the analysis’ commences in the loop between lines 220 and 260 in which the remaining M data values (distance GZ) are read as Y(I), the previously ‘evaluated G(I) values are relabelled X(1) and so that the’subroutine can be accessed from line 270, N is set equal to M. Deck weight 61) position (mm) (mm) fo) (b) Figure 2.14(a@) Angle of tilt vs Deck weight position (b) GZ vs metacentric height (7) The subroutine output. is used at line 280 to evaluate the intercept on the Y(I) (GZ) axis of the best straight line fitted through a graph of GZ vs G(1) as T (see Figure 2.14(b)). (8) Finally, the metacentric heights for the three experiments are printed in the loop between lines 310 and 330 and the maximum permissible value of the centre of gravity of the system is printed at 350. (9) From these results the dimensions of the toy mast height may be readily assessed. * Example 2.4 VENTCALIB: calibration of venturi meter In an experiment to calibrate a venturi meter (Figure 2.15) the following data were obtained