You have been asked to design a flexible pavement and the following daily traffic is expected for design: 6375 passenger cars with two 2-kip single axles, 375 18-wheel trucks with one 12-kip single axle and two 32-kip tandem axles, 225 triple-trailer trucks with one 18-kip single axle and six 36-kip tandem axles, and 525 single unit trucks with one 10-kip single axle and one 24-kip tandem axle. There are 3 lanes in the design direction (conservative design is to be used). Assuming a structural number of 5.0, determine the design-lane 18-kip ESALs for the pavement projected 15-year design life with the TSI of 2.5

Aloaded platform of total mass 500 kg is supported by a dashpot and by a set of springs of effective stiffness 72 kn/m. it is observed that when the platform is depressed through a distance x = 12.5 cm below its equilibrium position and then released without any initial velocity; it reaches its equilibrium position in the shortest possible time without overshoot. find the position and velocity of the loaded platform 0.10 sec. after its release. if a further load of 400 kg is added to the platform, find, i) the frequency of damped vibrations, and i) the amplitude of vibration after 2 complete oscillations, given that the initial amplitude is 15 cm.

An ideal otto cycle with air as the working fluid has a compression ratio of 8. the minimum and maximum temperatures in the cycle are 300 k and 1340 k. use constant specific heats at room temperature to determine (a) the amount of heat transferred to the air during the heat- addition kj/kg, (b) the thermal efficiency, and (c) the thermal efficiency of a carnot cycle ope limits. process, in rating between the same temperature

Aheavily insulated piston-cylinder device contains 0.02 m3 of steam at 300 kpa and 200 °c. 1.2 mpa. d this process. team is now compressed in a reversible manner to a pressure of etermine the entropy change and the work done on the steam during this process