Air enters a gas turbine with two stages of compression and two stages of expansion at 100 kPa and 17°C. This system uses a regenerator as well as reheating and intercooling. The pressure ratio across each compressor is 4; 300 kJ/kg of heat are added to the air in each combustion chamber (hint, this doesn’t mean the exit temperature is the same for both combustors); and the regenerator operates perfectly while increasing the temperature of the cold air by 20°C (hint, this means T5=T4+20°C). Determine this system’s thermal efficiency.

Afoot bridge is made as a simple deck, 4 m long, with a cross section 2 m (wide) and 20 cm thick, and made of wood. the deck is supported at the two ends. the maximum load allowable on the bridge is 10 tons, provided it is uniformly distributed on the deck. to sense this load, a strain gauge is placed at the center of the bridge and its resistance is monitored. if the sensor has a nominal resistance of 350 s2 and a gauge factor of 3.6, what is the reading of the strain gauge at maximum load? the modulus of elasticity for the wood used in the construction is 10 gpa.