WITH EFFECT FROM THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2011 - 2012

 

CE 205                                                                      

SURVEYING - I                                                     

Instruction                                                                                                                                                                                   4  Periods per week

Duration of University Examination                                                                                                                                         3  Hours

University Examination                                                                                                                                                              75 Marks

Sessional                                                                                                                                                                                      25 Marks

UNIT – I                                                                   

 

Chain Survey : Principles of chain survey, use and adjustment of various instruments employed in chain survey, including optical square and Abney's level. Offsets and errors in offsets. Obstructions in chaining, and chain angles. Errors and their sources. Determination of areas by chain survey.

UNIT – II

 

Compass Survey : Use and adjustment of prismatic and surveyor's compass. Methods of surveying with a compass. Magnetic declination, local attraction. Errors in prismatic survey. Drawing up field books. Plotting of compass survey. Distribution of closing error graphically by Bowditch Method.

UNIT – III

 

Plane Table Survey : Instruments employed in plane table survey. Use and adjustment of these instruments including simple alidade. Various methods of plane table survey. Three-point and two-point problems. Plane table contouring, using tangent clinometer. Errors in plane table survey.

 

UNIT – IV

 

Levelling : Definitions and principles of construction of a levelling instrument, and its various parts with special reference to spirit bubble and telescope. Use and adjustment of dumpy and tilting level. Establishment of bench marks by levelling. Longitudinal levelling. Cross-section levelling. Flying levels,and reciprocal levelling. Methods of booking and reduction of levels. Errors in levelling ; curvature and refraction corrections.

 

UNIT – V

 

Calculation of areas : Simpson's rule, and trapezoidal rule. Computation of cross sectional areas.

 

Contouring : Definition and characteristics of contours. Direct and indirect methods of contouring. Uses of contours. Estimation of volumes of earthwork, and of water storage by means of contour lines and sections. Grade contours.

 

Suggested Reading :

 1.C. Venkatramaiah, A Text Book of Surveying, Universities Press, Hyderabad, 1997.

 2.T.P. Kanetker and S.V. Kulkarni, Surveying and Levelling, Pune Vidyarthi Gruha Prakshan, Pune, 1994.

 3.B.C. Punmia, Surveying, Vol. I and II, Lakshmi Publications, 1994.

 

References :

 1.Fundamentals of Surveying, S. K. Roy, PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

 

2 . Surveying Theory and Practice, S. S. Bhavikatti, IK International

      Publishing House Pvt. Ltd.

 3.Text Book of Surveying, C. Venkatramaih, University Press.

 4.Surveying, Vo.1, 2., S. K. Duggal, Tata McGraw Hill Education.

 5.Surveying, Mimi Das Saikia, Bhargab Mohan Das & Madan Mohan Das, PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

 6.Surveying and Leveling Vol.1, 2., S. S. Bhavikatti, IK International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd.

 7.Surveying and Leveling, R. Subrahmanian, Oxford University Press

 8.Surveying Vo.1, 2, 3., B.C.Punmia, Ashok K. Jain, Arun K. Jain, Lakshmi Publications

 9.Advanced Surveying, Total Station, GIS and Remote Sensing. Satheesh Gopi, R. Sathi Kumar & M. Madhu, Pearson Publishers.

10.Plane Surveying, Alak De, S. Chand & Company.

 

 11.Surveying & Leveling, T. P. Kanetkar & S. V. Kulkarni, Pune Vidyarthi Gruha Prakshan, Pune.