A soil weighs 2,520 lbs/CY in its in situ condition, 1,970 lb/CY in its loose condition after excavation, and 3,025 lbs/CY in an embanked state. Compute the Load Factor and Shrink Factor for this material.
How many truckloads hauling an average volume of 16 LCY would be required to haul 1 million CCY of the soil from a borrow pit to a dam site?

Tom is having a problem with his washing machine. he notices that the machine vibrates violently at a frequency of 1500 rpm due to an unknown rotating unbalance. the machine is mounted on 4 springs each having a stiffness of 10 kn/m. tom wishes to add an undamped vibration absorber attached by a spring under the machine the machine working frequency ranges between 800 rpm to 2000 rpm and its total mass while loaded is assumed to be 80 kg a) what should be the mass of the absorber added to the machine so that the natural frequency falls outside the working range? b) after a first trial of an absorber using a mass of 35 kg, the amplitude of the oscillation was found to be 10 cm. what is the value of the rotating unbalance? c) using me-3.5 kg.m, find the optimal absorber (by minimizing its mass). what would be the amplitude of the oscillation of the absorber?