Engineering Surveying

After the end of this course, students should be able to: 1. explain the concept and importance of engineering surveying in engineering projects; 2. carryout feasibility study and prepare appropriate report in engineering survey project; 3. carryout setting out of curves and other structures using various methods; and 4. compute the areas and volumes of earthworks involved in engineering projects.

Basic concept of Engineering Surveying. Feasibility study in engineering surveying. Primary line and control for mapping an area. Route Surveys. Definition, classification and uses of curves and curves formulae. Methods of setting out simple, compound, reverse, transition and vertical curves. Longitudinal and cross sectioning. Super-elevation. Setting out with theodolites, rectangular grid and polar coordinates. Establishment and construction of benchmarks and industrial setting out. Computation of area and volumes of earthwork using trapezoidal rule, Simpson and prismoidal rules, graphical and give and take methods. Cuttings and embankments, Eccentricity, Pappus theorem and Mass haul diagram.