HGE TERMS Flashcards
(48 cards)
Most economical section when stopping sides makes an angle ____ with vertical.
90 degrees
Granular soil considered medium.
10-30
Test not performed in laboratory.
Vane Test
Not characteristic of soil mass.
Gas
Open tube, shape of a mercury.
Curved Up
Weight per unit volume of a liquid at a standard temperature and pressure.
Specific Weight
In civil engineering, soil is ____.
Uncemented Aggregate
Specific weight of liquid ____.
Does not vary on any other planet
Metacentric height is the distance between the ____.
Center of gravity of floating body and the meta center.
When metacenter on a floating body is lower than center of gravity.
Unstable Equilibrium
Intensity of vertical stress at a depth.
Directly proportional to the square of depth
Shear strength of a cohesion-less soil.
Proportional to the tangent of the angle of shearing resistant.
Porosity and void ratio equal respectively.
0.5 - 1.0
Molecules of liquid gets attracted.
Surface Tension
Nc, Nq, Ny, functions of?
Angle of Friction
Soil greater than 75 mm
Cobbles
Ratio of water to the weight of solid particles.
Water Content
In what plane is the deviator stress can affect the shear stress?
Horizontal Plane
Triaxial shear test acts
All plane axis except x & y axis
Shear strength of a soil
Increases with increase in normal stress
____ device used to determine undrain shear strength of the soil.
Shear Vane
____ most used property in soil property.
Void Ratio
____ branch of hydraulics which deals with study of forces.
Hydrodynamics
Abrupt rise in water surfaces.
Hydraulic Jump
