Calculate the amount of cubic yards of soil, A proposed building site requi...

A proposed building site requires 135,000-ft 3 of imported fill.  A borrow site is located 5-miles Northeast of the project site where the soil has a shrinkage of 16%.  The amount

Indirect method of contouring(grid method),

What do you know about shallow piers, Q. What do you know about Shallow Pie...

Q. What do you know about Shallow Piers? In case of some of the existing bridges, piers may be shallow and grip may be found to be inadequate. Protection round piers is then re

Culverts - causeway and bridges, Culverts, Causeway and Bridges: Roads...

Culverts, Causeway and Bridges: Roads have to cross several natural streams like - rivers and canals. They also have to cross railway lines and cross-roads. The structures nee

Permanent repairs to rail fracture, Q. Permanent Repairs to rail fracture? ...

Q. Permanent Repairs to rail fracture? (i) If the fracture is such that, wide gap A T welding ban be adopted, then the total length of fractured ends to-be cut shall be equal t

Discontinuity of joint – position of bearing, Q. Discontinuity of joint – p...

Q. Discontinuity of joint – position of bearing? Expansion joints in a bridge structures cater for movements inlongitudinal, transverse, vertical and rotational forms. Layout a

Determine the cubic yard in the ground, An earthwork contractor encountered...

An earthwork contractor encountered a location within the borrow area where the geological conditions changed.  Instead of encountering 100 cubic yards of wet clay, the contractor

Explain the bolted connections, Explain the Bolted Connections a) Quest...

Explain the Bolted Connections a) Questions generally relate to the size of the bolt needed for a connection or b) Number of bolts for a given loading and specified size

What are moment of inertia, The moment of inertia calculates the opposition...

The moment of inertia calculates the opposition any kind of body will have against a certain momentum (along that similar axis) trying to rotate that body.

Soil Mechanics, Good evening. I have two homework projects from the Soil Me...

Good evening. I have two homework projects from the Soil Mechanics. I am interesting if anybody can solve them.