The cable shown in Figure 1 is a model of one of the main cables on the center span of the Golden Gate Bridge. Each main cable supports one half the roadway resulting in a load of 165 kN/m of horizontal length...
A standard penetration test was performed on a particular cohesionless soil. The soil has a unit weight of 20.04 kN/m3. The standard penetration resistance value, measured as blows per foot, was recorded as N = 38.
A rectangular piece of wood,50 mm by L00 mm in cross-section, is used as a compression block as shown in the figure. The grain makes an angle of 20 with the horizontal,as shown


















