Civil Engineering - Shridhar University

To know the setting out works for construction purposes.
CHAIN, COMPASS AND PLANE TABLE SURVEYING
CHAIN : Definition ­ Principles ­ Classification ­ field and office work ­conventional signs ­ Ranging and Chaining
­ Reciprocal ranging ­ Setting perpendiculars­ Well­conditioned triangles.
COMPASS : Prismatic compass ­ Surveyor's compass ­ Bearing systems and conversions ­ Local attraction ­
Magnetic declination ­ dip ­ Traversing ­ Plotting ­ Adjustment of error.
PLANE TABLE SURVEYING : Plane table instruments and accessories ­ merits and demerits ­ methods ­
Radiation­ Intersection ­ Resection ­ Traversing.
LEVELLING AND THEODOLITE SURVEYING
LEVELLING : Level line ­ Horizontal line ­ Levels and Staves ­ Spirit level ­ sensitiveness ­ Bench marks ­
Temporary and Permanent adjustments ­ Fly and check levelling ­ Booking ­ Reduction ­ Curvature and Refraction ­
Reciprocal levelling ­ Longitudinal and Cross sections ­ Plotting.
THEODOLITE : Theodolite ­ Vernier and Microptic ­ Description and uses ­ Temporary and Permanent adjustments
of vernier transit ­ Horizontal angles ­ Heights and Distances ­Traversing ­ Closing error and distribution.
TACHEOMETRIC SURVEYING
Tacheometric Systems ­ Tangential, Stadia and substense methods, Stadia systems ­h orizontal and inclined sights ­
vertical and normal staff ­ fixed and movable hair ­ stadia constants, anallatic lens ­ subtense bar­ Self reducing
tacheometers.
TRIANGULATION SURVEYING
Horizontal and vertical control ­ methods ­triangulation ­network­ Signals. Base line ­ choices ­ instruments and
accessories ­ extension of base lines ­ corrections ­ Satellite station ­ reduction to centre ­ Intervisibility of height
and distances ­ Trigonometric levelling ­ Axis single corrections.
ENGINEERING SURVEYS
Reconnaissance, Preliminary and location surveys for engineering projects ­ layout ­ setting out works CURVES :
Curve ranging ­ Horizontal and Vertical curves ­ Simple curves ­setting with chain and tapes, tangential angles by
theodolite ­ compound and reverse curves ­ Transistion curves.
CONTOUR : Contouring ­ Methods ­ Characteristics and uses of contours ­ Plotting ­ Calculation of areas and
volumes.
TEXT BOOKS
1. Kanetkar, T.P., Surveying and Levelling, Vols. I and II, United Book Corporation, Pune, 1994
2. Punmia, B.C., Surveying, Vols. I and II, Laxmi Publications,1999