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Forensic Engineering Fundamentals
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Forensic Engineering Fundamentals

by Harold Franck, Darren Franck
December 2012
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
487 pages
17h
English
CRC Press
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the pressures are D
1
w and D
2
w. e weight of the water w is taken to be 62.4 lb. e corre-
sponding pressures are then
F
Dw
F
Dw
1
1
2
2
2
2
22
==
;
(5.7)
e total eective pressure is then
FDD
w
t
=−
()
1
2
2
2
2
(5.8)
e total eective pressure passes through the center of the trapezoid shown in red and is
given by
DD
D
DD
t
=+
+
1
3
1
2
2
12
(5.9)
For D
1
= 12 and D
2
= 9, D
t
= 5.28.
As another example that is commonly encountered consider a dam structure that is
constructed to retain the water in a pond. e pond experiences a large accumulation of
water runo so that the dam has an overow condition as shown in Figure 5.4.
D
2
D
1
F
H
Water ...
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