UNIVERSITY OF CEBU-MAIN CAMPUS
CIVIL ENGINEERING REVIEW
HYDRAULICS AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
SITUATION: The 8 ft diam cylinder weighs 500 lb. and rests on the
bottom of a tank that is 3 ft. long. Water and oil are poured into the left
and right portions of the tank to depths of 2 ft. and 4 ft. respectively.
1. Find the horizontal component of the force that will keep the cylinder
touching the tank at B. Ans: 749 lbs
2. Find the vertical component of the force that will push up the cylinder.
Ans: 2684 lbs
3. Compute the force that will keep the cylinder touching the tank at B.
Ans: 2148 lbs
SITUATION: A rectangular barge weighing 200,000 kg is 14 m long, 8 m
wide and 4.5 m deep. It will transport to Manila 20 mm diameter, 6 m
long steel reinforcing bars having density of 7850 kg/m3. Density of salt
water is 1026 kg/m3.
4. Determine the draft of the barge on sea water before the bars was
loaded. Ans: 1.74 m
5. If a draft is to be maintained at 3 m., how many pieces of steel bars
could it carry? Ans: 9782 bars
6. What is the draft of the barge when one half of its cargo is unloaded
in fresh water? Ans: 2.43 m
SITUATION: If the center of gravity of a ship in the upright position is 10
m above the center of gravity of the portion under water, the
displacement being 1000 metric tons, and the ship is tipped 30° causing
the center of buoyancy to shift sidewise by 8 m.
7. Find the location of the metacenter from the bottom if the ship if its
draft is 3m. Ans: 17.5 m
8. Find the metacentric height. Ans: 6 m
9. What is the value of the moment in kg-m. Ans: 3,000,000
SITUATION: A piece of wood floats in water with 50 mm projecting above
the water surface. When placed in glycerin of sp.gr. 1.35, the block
projects 75 mm above the liquid surface.
10. Find the height of the piece of wood. Ans: 0.146 m
11. Find the sp.gr. of wood. Ans: 0.658 m
12. Find the weight of the wood if it has a cross sectional area of 200
mm x 200 mm. Ans: 38 N
13. A hydrometer weighs 0.002 kg has a stem at the upper end, ehich
is 3 mm in diameter. How much deeper will it float in oil (sp. Gr. = 0.78)
than in alcohol having a sp. Gr. 0f 0.82? Ans: 16.98 mm
SITUATION: A piece of wood of sp.gr. 0.651 is 3 in. square and 5 ft long.
14. What is the volume of lead having a unit weight of 700 pcf that should
be fastened at one end of the stick so that it will float upright in 1 ft. out
of water? Ans: 0.00456 ft3
15. Determine the weight of the lead. Ans: 3.19 lb
16. Determine the total weight of lead and the wood. Ans: 15.88 lb
SITUATION: A rectangular tank of internal width of 5 m, as shown in the
Figure contains oil of sp.gr. = 0.80 and water.
17. What is the value of h?
18. If a 1000-N block is made to float in oil, what is the new value of h?
19. If a 1000-N block is made to float in oil, what is the rise in water
surface in chamber b?
20. Find the volume of the water displaced and the position of Center of
Buoyancy for a wooden block of width 2.0 m and depth 1.5 m when it
floats horizontally in water. Density of wooden block is 650 kg/m3 and its
length is 4.0 m. Ans: Center of Buoyancy = 0.4875m from the base
21. A block of steel (SG=7.85) floats at the mercury-water interface.
What is the ratio of the height immersed in Water over Mercury for this
condition? (SG Mercury = 13.57). Ans: 0.835
22. A body having the dimensions of 1.5m x 1.0m x 3.0 m weighs 1962N
in water. Find its weight in air. What will be its specific gravity? Ans:
46.107 kN & 1.044
23. A cube of wood is floating in water supports a 300 g mass at the
center of its top face. When the mass is removed, the cube rises by 3
cm. Determine the volume of the cube. Ans: 1000 cm3
24. A hydrometer weighs 0.00485 lb and has a stem at the upper end
which is cylindrical and 0.1100 in diameter. How much deeper will it float
in oil of s.g. 0.780 than in alcohol of s.g. 0.821? Ans: 0.90 in
25. A cube 2.2 ft on an edge has its lower half of s.g. = 1.6 and upper
half of s.g. = 0.70. It rests in a two-layer fluid, with lower s.g.= 1.4 and
upper s.g. = 0.80. Determine the height h of the top of the cube above
the interface. Ans: 0.917 ft
26. A wooden spherical ball with specific gravity of 0.45 and a diameter
of 300 mm is dropped from a height of 4.6 m above the surface of water
in a pool of unknown depth. The ball barely touched the bottom of the
pool before it began to float. Determine the depth of the pool. Ans: 3.76
m
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CIVIL ENGINEERING REVIEW
HYDRAULICS AND GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
SITUATION: A rectangular scow 9 m wide, 15 m long, and 3.6 m high has
a draft in sea water of 2.4 m. Its center of gravity is 2.7 m above the
bottom of the scow. Determine the following:
27. The initial metacentric height; Ans: 1.3125 m
28. The righting or overturning moment when the scow tilts until one side
is just at the point of submergence. Ans: 1,189.3 kN-m

29. A wooden barge of rectangular cross-section is 8 m wide, 4 m high,

and 16 m long. It is transporting in seawater (s=1.03) a total load of
1,500 kN including its own weight and cargo. If a weight of 75 kN
(included in the 1,500 kN) is shifted a distance of 2.5 m to one side, it
will cause the barge to go down 450 mm in the wedge of immersion and
also rise 450 mm in the corresponding wedge of emersion. The barge
floats vertically (on an even keel) before the shifting of the weight.
Compute how far above the waterline is the center of gravity of the loaded
barge. Ans: 2.947 m.
30. A block of wood having a volume of 0.034 m3 and weighing 300 N is
suspended in water as shown. A wooden rod of length 3.4 m and cross-
section of 200 mm2 is attached to the weight and also to the wall. If the
rod weighs 16 N, determine the angle a for equilibrium. Ans: a = 10.5°