1. The road shown in the diagram has to be deviated along CD, owing to encroachment by the railway. From the data find AB, CE, ED, and CD. 2. From the figure PQRS an area PTVS, containing 2 acres, is to be cut off by the What are the lengths PT, TV, SV, and QR? line TV, parallel to PS. PQ = 1,400, PS = 800. 3. Explain the method adopted in ranging out curves by tangential angles, and show how the angles are computed. MENSURATION AND DRAWING. The Board of Examiners. 1. Deduce the formula for the volume of a frustrum of a cone bounded by two parallel planes, and show that the prismoidal formula applies to this case. 2. The volume of a right circular cone is 1,000 cubic yards, and its side makes an angle of 45° with its base. Deduce the diameter of the base and the height of the cone. 3. Compute the volume of an embankment made across a valley, as per longitudinal section herewith, the top width being 20 feet, and side slopes 1 horizontal to 1 vertical. The ground is level transversely. 66ft 66 ft 66ft 10 ft > x 4. Describe fully the method to be adopted in plotting a plan of chain survey, and inking in and colouring the same. CIVIL ENGINEERING-PART II. FIRST PAPER. The Board of Examiners. 1. Write an Essay on the method of exploring, marking, and rendering passable a track for pack-horse traffic through a mountainous, heavily-timbered, and wet district. 2. Discuss the various methods of dealing with streams crossing a country road in a forested and also in a treeless basaltic district. 3. Give full particulars as to the best way of constructing a main road in an undulating sandy district with occasional limestone outcrops, the sand hills being at places quite bare, and moving with the wind, and elsewhere covered with bracken fern or ti-tree. 4. Write an Essay on the design and construction of footpaths in town streets. 5. Supply sketches and description showing arrangement and details of an electric tramway system for a town of about 20,000 inhabitants on an undulating site. CIVIL ENGINEERING.-PART II. SECOND PAper. The Board of Examiners. 1. Give a full and critical description, with detailed sketches, of a locomotive and rolling-stock for a railway of 2 feet 6 inches gauge in a hilly country. 2. What do you understand by marshalling goods trains by gravitation? Give a sketch plan of the arrangement of lines needed, and explain how it is used. 3. Institute a full and careful comparison between the Victorian railways and those of other countries as to speed attained, rates charged, accommodation supplied, and general financial result. 4. Give all the particulars you can as to the construction and use of gas buoys, and the necessary apparatus of supplying them with gas. 5. Write an Essay on gates and caissons for docks. 6. Give a full description, with detailed sketches, of the slip at Williamstown, and offer any comments you may desire upon slips as a substitute for docks. |