Cone of Depression – determini
ng the maximum pumping rate fo
r a specified draw down.
(+20)
A consulting company decides to u
se Pump & Treat to remove the
TCE plume from the aquifer. For an
unconfined aquifer such as this, t
here is a possibility that dr
awdown during the Pump & Treat operation will
lower the water table to the
bottom of the well and that the wa
ter will stop flowing (thi
s is bad). Suppose a 6
inch diameter well is installed
which fully penetrates the 15-m
thick aquifer which has a hydraulic
conductivity of 0.001 m/s. Deter
mine the maximum pumping rate
(in gallons per minute, gpm) that can be
sustained indefinitely if the dr
awdown at an observation well 5
00 m from the pumped well is 12 m and the
drawdown at the pumped well is
limited by the depth of the aqui
fer and the height of the submersible pump,
which you may estimate at 0.3 m
(i.e., drawdown in the pumping
well may not exceed 14.7 m).
Answer: Q = 50.5 gpm.
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Usually, for a given slump, the cement and water
demand will _________ as the maximum size of coarse aggregates
decrease.
A.
increase
B.
decrease
C. not change
Compare between curve A and B in the particle size distribution
figure shown below, which one represents a well-graded aggregate?
Your answer is _________.
What are the major similarities and differences
between pozzolanic and hydraulic reactions for cementitious
materials? (2 points)
Please explain why the impermeability and chemical corrosion
resistance of the concrete are improved by using supplemental
cementitious materials?
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For a residential building with 5000W of heating demand, estimate:
a) the number of required vertical ground heat exchangers (borehole heat exchangers) to fulfill the heating demand (round up the number).
b) the heat exchange rate for each ground heat exchanger if boreholes are 30m deep (W/m).
Design parameters and assumptions:
The circulating fluid in the pipes is water with a temperature difference of 5°C between inlet and outlet pipes (Tout - Tin= 5°C) and Reynolds number of 5,000. Pipe outer diameter is 25mm with 1.8mm wall thickness. Circulating fluid density is 1000 kg/m3, the heat capacity is 4180 J/(kgK) and dynamic viscosity of 0.001 Pa.s.
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A long footing supports a wall carrying a load of 260
kN per m. The soil at the
site is saturated clay having a undrained shear strength of 117
kPa. The unit
weight of the clay is 22 kN/m³ and it is suspected that
occasionally the water
table rises to the ground surface. What width in m (1 dp) of
footing should be
used if a minimum factor of safety of 2.4 is required? The footing
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For a trapezoidal-shaped, concrete-finished gravel bottom
channel along a 0.5% slope, with a bottom width of 8 feet, a top
width of 32 feet, and side slopes of 4:1, calculate:
a. the channel’s full capacity discharge,
b. velocity at full capacity discharge, and
c. discharge and velocity when stream flow is 0.5 feet from the top
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In a soil investigation for a construction project, two soil types were identified with the following parameters (g = 9.81 m/s2):
|
Soil Type |
Depth below ground level (m) |
Unit weights (kN/m3) |
Other parameters |
|
Soil 1 (sand) |
6.5 |
g = 17 and gsat = 17.5 |
E =15000 kN/m2 |
|
Soil 2 (overconsolidated clay) |
11.5 |
gsat = 20 |
e0=0.69, Cc=0.25, Cs=0.05 |
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