CONFIDENTIAL EC/DEC 2016/CES512/513/508 7 UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA FINAL EXAMINATION COURSE : COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS METHOD FOR ENGINEERS/COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS FOR ENGINEERS COURSE CODE : CES512/513/508 EXAMINATION DECEMBER 2016 } TIME : 3HOURS INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES 1, This question paper consists of four (4) questions, 2, Answer ALL questions in the Answer Booklet. Start each answer on a new page 3. Do not bring any material into the examination room unless permission is given by the invigilator. 4, Please check to make sure that this examination pack consists of : i) the Question Paper ji) _ an Answer Booklet - provided by the Faculty iil) a five-page Appendix 1 iv) a two-page of graph paper — provided by the Faculty 5. Answer ALL questions in English. DO NOT TURN THIS PAGE UNTIL YOU ARE TOLD TO DO SO This examination paper consists of 5 printed pages (© Hak Cipta Universiti Teknologl MARA CONFIDENTIALCONFIDENTIAL 2 ECIDEC 2016/CES512/513/508 QUESTION 4 SIX (6) sub-grade soil samples have been studied from a borehole report. The relationship between the vertical stress, S., of sub-grade material and the soil depth, x, is given as follows: Sc = ap + ax + ax” The soil vertical stresses were measured at various depths in a clay stratum as shown in Table Q1 Table Q1 Sample | Depth,x | Vertical Stress, No. (m) | Se (kPa) 1 1.9 24 2 34 2 3 42 13.6 | 4 54 352 | [os 58 40.9 6 6.9 61.4 a) Formulate the problem on finding the equations between the depth and the vertical stress based on the given data in Table Q1 using the least square method. (18 marks) b) Solve the formulation for finding the coefficient ao, a, and a, using the LU Decomposition method. (7 marks) (© Hak Cipta Universiti Teknologi MARA CONFIDENTIALCONFIDENTIAL 3 ECIDEC 2016/CES512/513/508 QUESTION 2 a) A polluted reservoir has an initial concentration of heavy metals of 1 x 10” parts/m® at beginning of the heavy metal exposure. By using any of the Runge-Kutta second order method, compute the concentration of the heavy metals after 6 weeks, by considering the beginning exposure time as 0 week. The differential equation of the concentration is given by the following equation. ec) + 0,06C=0 at o where Cis the heavy metal concentration level (partim*) tis the time (weeks) Use the step size of 1.5 week for the computation, (15 marks) b) Figure Q2(b) shows a schematic diagram of combined pad footing and its loadings. The combined pad footing is imposed by an uplift earth pressure which has been converted to a uniformly distributed load of 904 kN/m and two column loads at point B of 1720 kN and C of 2440 KN. The moment equation for segment BC of range 0.54 < x < 3.54 mis given as follows: Mgo= 452x*- 1720x+928.8 1720 kN 2440 KN 904 kN/im 0.54 m 3.0m 1.06 m Figure Q2(b) Determine the position of distance, x, where the value of the bending moment is 10% from the maximum negative moment given by Msc equation using the Bisection method. Perform the iteration until the approximate relative error, €. falls below 1%. (10 marks) (© Hak Cipta Universiti Teknologi MARA CONFIDENTIAL