I second CVG. It would be similar to option 3, but in a short term. You need to evaluate the embankment under rapid drawdown, in which the soil is saturated up to the original water table, along the face of the wall, and extending out from the toe along the bottom of the canal.
I agree with several of the other posters. If you've been in a technical position and you start studying now you should be alright. I just took the PE in October and I honestly didn't start diligently studying until the month of the exam due to work and other life events (finding out my wife...
I can use the case of a pressure air meter.
When calibrating a pressure air meter we first test to verify the meter's appropriate initial pressure. We do this by filling the meter to the top with water (i.e. no air in the air meter), bringing the meter to the assumed initial pressure, and...
I haven't personally; however, excel by itself probably isn't the tool you're after. Excel linked with Microsoft Access will allow to you create databases for equipment inventorying, cost coding, payable and receivable tracking, and vendor management. Additionally you can create custom forms...
I was looking at some examples in Virginia. VDOT calls out the use of Modified Bishop, simplified Janbu, or Spencer Methods. I can say that in my 8 years in the industry I don't think I've seen a Spencer Method analysis in a report.
Can anyone recommend any good specific literature or...
I find that very interesting. In this region of the country (mid-atlantic) I have only ever seen Bishop method via GStable being utilized. Are there any references to specific jurisdictions, DOTs, or other organizations requiring Spencer's procedure or the Morgenstern-Price method in lieu of...
One important note is that in several jurisdictions "flashers" on barricades and group 2 devices have been removed from the standard. These devices are not considered "crash worthy" and have become projectile hazards to motorists and workers when barricades have been struck.
Many jurisdictions...
In this case given the steel plates on each side I don't see a pullout failure as possible. I think the appropriate analysis for the concrete would be to treat it as a beam and analyze for the bending moment induced in the concrete and reinforcing as a result of the wind load. You can compute...
Seconded bimr's comment.
Additionally the MUTCD provided by the FHWA and various state Work Area Protection Manuals provide requirements for temporary site lighting. In Virginia we have a Work Area Protection Manual available at the following link...
I understand that in Bishop Slope Stability Analysis we are determining a FS based on moment equilibrium. In the Janbu Method we are determining based on force equilibrium. What I am having trouble determining is the merits of each and when one method would prove more applicable than the other.
