Text Book of Surveying
By: Venkatramaiah, C.
Material type: BookPublisher: Hyderabad University Press (India) Pvt. Ltd. 2014Edition: 2nd.Description: 730.ISBN: 9788173717406.Subject(s): CivilDDC classification: 526.9 Summary: Key features: Forms a core textbook for undergraduate students of civil engineering. Covers Surveying-I, Surveying-II and Advanced Surveyingin a single volume. Concepts of surveying explained lucidly with several illustrative examples. Emphasises details of the surveying methods rather than the constructional and other intricate details of surveying instruments. Questions and practice problems included at the end of every chapter Includes numerous objective-type questions with answers. Useful for examinations such as AMIE, GATE and IES.Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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This comprehensive textbook on surveying covers, in a single volume, all the topics prescribed at the undergraduate level in civil engineering in India. It presents the various methods of surveying and the underlying concepts of surveying, including modern and advanced surveying techniques and instruments such as Total Station. The narrative is enlivened with glimpses of the historical development of the subject. The book is well illustrated with diagrams and is replete with worked-out examples and exercises. New to the revised edition are discussions on trilateration, methods of determination of time, longitude and latitude of a place, azimuth of a survey line, Total Station, geographic information system and global positioning system (GPS).
Contents
Introduction
Survey Measurements and Errors
Angles, Bearings and Azimuths
Chain Surveying
Compass Surveying
Plane Table Surveying
Levelling and Contouring
Minor Instruments
Theodolite Surveying
Areas and Volumes
Tacheometry
Curve Ranging
Triangulation and Baseline Measurement
Trigonometric Levelling
Hydrographic Surveying
Construction Surveys
Certain Special and Modern Instruments
Other and Modern Methods of Surveying
Key features: Forms a core textbook for undergraduate students of civil engineering. Covers Surveying-I, Surveying-II and Advanced Surveyingin a single volume. Concepts of surveying explained lucidly with several illustrative examples. Emphasises details of the surveying methods rather than the constructional and other intricate details of surveying instruments. Questions and practice problems included at the end of every chapter Includes numerous objective-type questions with answers. Useful for examinations such as AMIE, GATE and IES.
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