Lesson 3: Total Hydrostatic Forces on Plane Surfaces

Lesson 3
Total Hydrostatic Forces on Plane Surfaces

EXAMPLE PROBLEMS:

1. A vertical rectangular plane of height and base is submerged in a liquid with its top edge at the liquid surface.
Determine the total force acting on one side and its location from the liquid surface.

Solution:

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2. A vertical triangular surface of height and horizontal base width is submerged in a liquid with its vertex at the
liquid surface. Determine the total force acting on one side and its location from the liquid surface.\

Solution:

3. A vertical circular gate or radius is submerged in a liquid with its top edged flushed on the liquid surface.
Determine the magnitude and location of the total force acting on one side of the gate.

Solution:

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4. A vertical rectangular gate 1.5 m wide and 3 m high is submerged in water with its top edge 2 m below the water
surface. Find the total pressure acting on one side of the gate and its location from the bottom.

Solution:

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5. A vertical triangular gate with top base horizontal and 1.5 wide is 3 m high. It is submerged in oil having sp. gr. of
0.82 with its top base submerged to a depth of 2 m. Determine the magnitude and location of the total hydrostatic
pressure acting on one side of the gate.

Solution:

6. A vertical rectangular plate is submerged half in oil (sp. gr. = 0.8) and half in water such that its top edge is flushed
with the oil surface. What is the ratio of the force exerted by water acting on the lower half to that by oil acting on the
upper half?

Solution:

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7. A Vertical circular gate in a tunnel 8 m in diameter has oil (sp. gr. 0.8) on one side and air on the other side. If oil is 12
m above the invert and the air pressure is 40 kPa, where will a single support be located (above the invert of the
tunnel) to hold the gate in position?

Solution:

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8. A closed cylindrical tank 2 m in diameter and 8 m deep with axis vertical contains 6 m deep of oil (sp. gr. = 0.8). The
air above the liquid surface has a pressure of 0.8 kg/cm2. Determine the total normal force in kg acting on the wall at
its location from the bottom of the tank.

Solution:

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9. In the figure shown, stop B will break if the force on it reaches 40 kN. Find the critical water depth. The length of the
gate perpendicular to the sketch is 1.5 m.

Solution:

10. A vertical circular gate is submerged in a liquid so that its top edge is flushed with the liquid surface. Find the ratio
of the total force acting on the lower half to that acting on the upper half.

Solution:

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11. A 30 m long dam retains 9m of water as shown in the figure. Find the total resultant force acting on the dam and the
location of the center of pressure from the bottom.

Solution:

12. The isosceles triangle gate shown in the figure is hinged at A and weighs 1500 N. What is the total hydrostatic force
acting on one side of the gate in kiloNewton?

Solution:

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13. An inclined, circular gate with water on on the side is shown in the figure. Determine the total resultant force
acting on the gate.

Solution:

14. The gate in the figure shown is 1.5 m wide, hinged at point A, and rests against a smooth wall at B. Neglecting the
weight of the gate, compute
a. the total force on the gate due to seawater,
b. the reaction at B, and
c. the reaction at hinge A.

Solution:

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15. Determine the magnitude and location of the total hydrostatic force acting on the 2 m x 4 m gate shown in the figure.

Solution:

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16. The gate shown in the figure is hinged at A and rests on a smooth floor at B. The gate is 3 m square and oil of having
sp. gr. of 0.82 stands to a height of 1.5 m above the hinge A. The air above the oil surface is under a pressure of 7
kPa above atmosphere. If the gate weighs 5 kN, determine the vertical force F required to open it.

Solution:

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