hydraulic

The hydraulic grade line slopes downward along pipes as the fluid loses energy to friction.

Finally, hydraulic jacks will be installed between each of the fifty-two piles and beams.

A hydraulic structure may normally flow a small amount, but in flooding conditions be asked to pass incredible volumes of water.

The volume and hydraulics of wastewater flow aren’t the only challenges engineers face.

The turbulence of the hydraulic jump entrains a lot of air, reducing the buoyancy of a swimmer.

A submerged hydraulic jump creates an area of recirculation immediately downstream of the dam sometimes called a “keeper” for obvious reasons.

And if the hydraulic grade line drops below the outlet of the pipe, you won’t get any flow at all.

The hydraulic grade line, which is the imaginary line representing the surface of the fluid, comes up above the surface of the ground.

An exception that the hydraulic ram pump takes advantage of beautifully.

I’m using my hydraulic press to test out the strength of each beam and see how it performs prior to failure.

Well, there’s one other trick that hydraulic engineers have up their sleeves.

On today's episode, we’re talking about hydraulic transients, also known as Water Hammer.

This can be really useful, like in hydraulic cylinders, but that lack of “springiness” can also lead to catastrophic failure of pipe systems.

I made a video a while back about water hammer, a hydraulic phenomenon that can lead to major problems in pipelines.

Once everything is installed, the contractor will use the hydraulic jacks to lift the building’s foundation, transferring about 20 percent of the load onto the new perimeter piles.

An alternative to simply ramming the bit through the soil is to use a downhole hydraulic motor.

You can also note that the drain actually increases the hydraulic gradient by shortening the flow paths, so there’s actually more seepage happening than there would be without the drain.

The answer actually has to do with this giant excavator because they use something called hydraulics.

The property used to characterize this speed is called hydraulic conductivity, and you can look up average values for different types of soil online, if you’re curious to learn more.

Also known as mud motors, these devices convert the hydraulic energy from the drilling fluid being pumped through the string to rotate a drill bit that chews through soil and rock.

Unfortunately, I don’t have a hydraulic press, so my Mazda grocery hauler is about the heaviest thing I could think of to test the homemade MSE cube, so I moved on to dynamic loading.

If you’re a regular viewer, you know how much you can learn from our old friends: some concrete and a benchtop hydraulic press.

Besides the permeability of the soil, the only other factor controlling the speed water flows is the hydraulic gradient, which consists of the difference in pressure over the length of a flow path.

Many have suggested that the Ever Given’s unscheduled and unfortunate landing in the canal may have been hastened by a hydraulic phenomenon unique to vessels transiting through shallow water called the Bank Effect.

Those cracks are the important part of this demo, but I went ahead and increased the load until the beam failed because, hey, that’s what hydraulic presses are good for right?

You can add more injection wells to increase the speed of recharge, but above a certain pressure, some funny things start to happen: underground formations break apart and erode in a phenomenon called hydraulic fracturing or just fracking.