CE 9203 Surveying I Syllabus download for Civil Engineering

CE 9203      SURVEYING – I                                               L  T   P   C

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OBJECTIVE:

The objective of this course is to introduce the principles of surveying, various methods and

applications to Civil Engineering projects.

UNIT I   INTRODUCTION AND CHAIN SURVEYING                             8

Definition  -  Principles  -   Classification  -  Field and office work  –  Precision and Accuracy  -

Scales - Conventional signs - Survey instruments - Ranging and chaining - Reciprocal ranging

- Setting perpendiculars  - well  - conditioned triangles  - Traversing  - Plotting  - Enlarging and

reducing figures.

UNIT II   COMPASS SURVEYING AND PLANE TABLE SURVEYING                           7

Prismatic compass  -  Surveyor’s compass  -  Bearing  -  Systems and conversions  -  Local

attraction - Magnetic declination - Dip - Traversing - Plotting - Adjustment of error - Plane table

instruments and accessories  -  Merits and demerits  -  Methods  -  Radiation  -  Intersection  -

Resection - Traversing.

UNIT III  LEVELLING                                                      12

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  -

Calculation of  areas and volumes  -  Contouring  -  Methods  -  Characteristics and uses of

contours - Plotting - Earth work volume - Capacity of reservoirs.

UNIT IV  THEODOLITE SURVEYING                                8

Theodolite  -  Vernier and microptic  -  Description and uses  -  Temporary and permanent

adjustments of  vernier transit - Horizontal angles - Vertical angles - Heights and distances -

Traversing - Closing error and distribution - Gale’s tables - Omitted measurements.

UNIT V  SURVEY APPLICATIONS                               10

Reconnaissance, preliminary and location surveys for engineering projects - Lay out - Setting

out works - Route Surveys for highways, railways and waterways - Curve ranging - Horizontal

and vertical curves  -  Simple curves   -  Setting with chain  and tapes, tangential angles by

theodolite, double theodolite - Compound and reverse curves - Transition curves - Functions

and requirements - Setting out by offsets and angles -  Vertical curves - Sight distances - Mine

Surveying - instruments - Tunnels - Correlation of under ground and surface surveys - Shafts -

Adits.

TOTAL:  45 PERIODS

TEXT BOOKS:

1.  Bannister A. and Raymond S., Surveying, ELBS, Sixth Edition, 1992.

2. Heribert Kahmen and Wolfgang Faig, Surveying, Walter de Gruyter, 1995.

3.   Kanetkar T.P., Surveying and Levelling, Vols. I and II, United Book Corporation, Pune, 

      2002.

4.  Punmia B.C. Surveying, Vols. I II and III, Laxmi Publications, 2005.

REFERENCES:

1. Clark D., Plane and Geodetic Surveying, Vols. I and II, C.B.S. Publishers and Distributors,

Delhi, Sixth Edition, 1971. 

2.  James M.Anderson and Edward M.Mikhail, Introduction to Surveying, McGraw Hill Book

Company, 1985.

3.   Schofield,W., Engineering Surveying, Butterworth –Heinemann, London, 5th Edition, 2001

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