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The most common theme in these problems is that the total mass (or weight) of soil solids remains the same - at the borrow pit, in transport and at the destination, regardless of the degree of compaction. Remember, that's soil solids ONLY, which is equal to the dry density x total volume (see...

Is there a link where one can view exactly what items are allowed/prohibited?

The second edition of the Civil Engineering PE All-in-One Exam Guide comes out approximately 3 years after its initial publication. During these 3 years, I have received a lot of feedback from engineers who have used the book in their preparation for the PE Civil examination. Most of the...

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The Civil PE Review course taught by Dr. Indranil Goswami, author of “Civil Engineering All-In-One PE Exam Guide: Breadth and Depth 2nd Edition” and “Civil Engineering PE Practice Exams: Breadth and Depth” is scheduled to start August 14. Registration will close August 10. To date, first time...

Last night I was revisiting the news about the 1999 Mars orbiter failure (the one that occurred due to a miscommunication on units) - don't ask me why, I have forgotten and was reading the comments - there were some doozies there - for example, a guy complaining "pounds is a unit of weight and...

There is no force applied to the fluid and therefore (by Newton's Law), momentum is conserved. The values of the conjugate depths on either side of a hydraulic jump are derived from a statement of equal momentum, not equal energy. Energy is indeed lost in a hydraulic jump, while momentum is...

I am looking at the solution for #504 and it shows fN = 0 and FFS = 73.5, just as you wrote. Maybe you are looking at a previous (and maybe somewhat different) version?

How are you sure of THAT?

It is relevant because in your guessing period, if you do a count of those already answered (with a high degree of confidence, of course - otherwise this has no significance) and IF you observe that one of those choices (A,B,C,D) has a markedly lower frequency than the other three, then you are...

Not quite sure what you mean. How would you know - a priori - that the member is in double curvature?

If the far end of the member is moment free (pinned), the stiffness is taken as 3EI/L while if the far end is rigid (either fixed support, or continuous), then the stiffness is 4EI/L. Doing it this way should be consistent with the way you calculate fixed end moments, i.e. for a span with one...

To clarify further, I do not mean I am looking for 'easy' states - well maybe I am, as the topic title suggests. The intent of my question was I know that some states are tougher in applicants' dossier review than others (this could be an impression that is dated, because many states have...

Are any of the state boards more permissive then others when it comes to allowing candidates with foreign (outside U.S.) experience to sit for the PE exam?

A direct quote today from someone on the committee at the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) The following resolution passed at today's EDC business meeting by a vote of 34-4: "The ASEE EDC does not support a requirement of 30 semester hours beyond the BS degree to sit for the...

At the risk of answering without having the documents in front of me, I believe you are correct. The version which gives answer in hours has the coeff 1.67 and the version which gives answer in minutes has coeff 100

A schematic would indeed help, but if the load comes in at an angle but is at the center of the plate, there should not be a moment associated with the load, but a horizontal component that needs to be resisted (shear in anchors?)

I can state with almost near certainty that the Structural Analysis II chapter is unnecessary studying for the PE. I am assuming, if you are overwhelmed with Structural topics/concepts, that STR is NOT your depth area. Concentrate on Statics, Strength of Materials, basic determinate structural...

"Books with content directed mainly toward solution of engineering problems or preparation for professional engineering examinations." If that is what their website says, then they are absolutely going to have an issue with those books.

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