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Water is flowing in a 200 mm pipeline fitted with a 45o bend in a vertical plane. The diameter at the outlet of the bend is 500 mm. The pipe axis at the inlet is horizontal and the outlet is 1.5 m above the inlet. If the flow through the bend is 0.4 m3/s and a head loss of 0.5 m occurs in the bend, calculate the magnitudes and the directions of the resultant force the bend support must withstand. The volume of the bend is 0.070 m3 and the pressure at the inlet is 300 kN/m2