The base of a dam for a lake is designed to resist up to 120 percent of the horizontal

Chapter 5, Problem 5.145

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The base of a dam for a lake is designed to resist up to 120 percent of the horizontal force of the water. After construction, it is found that silt (that is equivalent to a liquid of density 33 1.76 10 kg/m )s = is settling on the lake bottom at the rate of 12 mm/year. Considering a 1-m-wide section of dam, determine the number of years until the dam becomes unsafe.

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