Handbook of Civil Engineering Calculations

for i — 8 or 10 percent, the value of the original capital at the end of the sixth year = $8000(1.469) + $7800(1.360) + $7000(1. ...

Related Calculations: As a general guide for selecting trial rate-of-return val- ues, choose a higher value and a lower value ar ...

First, consider that i = 9.8 percent, causing the polynomial to assume the value of zero. Then replace 9.8 percent with the high ...

Select the investment plan The firm should adopt plan A because it has the lower payback period. Related Calculations: The inve ...

TABLE 15. Value of Expenditures and Income Life of asset, Value of Value of years expenditures, $ income, $ 1 36,81 8 10,90 9 2 ...

Analysis of Business Operations LINEAR PROGRAMMING TO MAXIMIZE INCOME FROM JOINT PRODUCTS A firm manufactures two articles, A an ...

Monthly production of article A, thousands of units FIGURE 8. Linear programming solution. chart, Fig. 8, or by solving the equa ...

C = monthly cost of production, $; and the subscript refers to the machine. Find the most economical manner of allocating produc ...

Number of units produced monthly,N FIGURE 9. Incremental-cost curves. monthly, P = monthly profit, and the subscript refers to t ...

IA = $1750; IB = $1480 and l.5IB = $2220; /c = $0690 and 18/c = $1.242. Also, when7V 5 = 401.5, then 1.5I 3 = $2.214. The total ...

lodging is the same in all. The relative cost of traveling from one town to another is recorded in Fig. 11. Design the most econ ...

FIGURE 12. First stage in finding most economical route. C2-E, 1 + 21= 28. Thus, the minimum cost is 28. Record these minimum co ...

FIGURE 13. Second stage in finding most economical route. A reserve stock of parts is not needed. Determine the most economical ...

the average inventory = Q.5AB = QAN parts. By taking the product of the carrying cost and the average inventory, the annual cost ...

Calculation Procedure: Identify the predecessor(s) of each activity; tabulate results The critical-path method (CPM) offers a s ...

Construct the network for the project. Fig. 15 The network is a delineation of the sequence in which the activities are to be p ...

0-1-2-3-10-11-12-13 0-1-2-3-12-13 Compute the early event time TE of each event The early event time is the earliest possible d ...

TABLE 19. Calculation of Late Event Times Event T 1 , days 13 37 12 37-5 = 32 11 3237-4 = 28 10 2837-6 = 22 9 2837-4 = 24 8 3737 ...

TABLE 20. Calculation of Project Float* Activity T^ T^ D F^ 0-14 040 1-27 4 3 O 2-3 1 0 7 3 O 3-4 2 4 1 0 1 4 O 4-5 2 6 2 4 2 O ...

Determine the true duration of the project Treating each departure individually, deduce the effects of that departure by referr ...