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Computation of Earthwork

This document describes the computation of earthwork for a 1 km long railway embankment that has a rising gradient of 1% for the first 500m and a falling gradient of 1.5% for the remaining distance. The embankment is 5m wide at the base with side slopes of 2:1. The central depth is recorded at intervals of 100m from chainage 0m to 1000m. The volume of earthwork is calculated using the trapezoidal method and Simpson's rule. The trapezoidal method gives a volume of 1065000 cubic meters, while Simpson's rule gives a volume of 1076666.7 cubic meters, which is a difference of 11666.667 cubic meters.

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Computation of Earthwork

This document describes the computation of earthwork for a 1 km long railway embankment that has a rising gradient of 1% for the first 500m and a falling gradient of 1.5% for the remaining distance. The embankment is 5m wide at the base with side slopes of 2:1. The central depth is recorded at intervals of 100m from chainage 0m to 1000m. The volume of earthwork is calculated using the trapezoidal method and Simpson's rule. The trapezoidal method gives a volume of 1065000 cubic meters, while Simpson's rule gives a volume of 1076666.7 cubic meters, which is a difference of 11666.667 cubic meters.

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7 COMPUTATION OF EARTHWORK

PROBLEM:A railway embankment 1 Km long is 5m wide at the formation level with side slope
of 2:1 it is constructed with a raising gradient of 1% upto 500m and falling gradient
of 1.5% till end. Taking regular interval of 100m and Central depth at the zero
chainage is 4m. Determine the volume of earthwork by Trapezodal and Simpsons
rule.
GIVEN
Length (
width (B
Rising Gradient =
Falling Gradient =

1000
5
1
1.5
S =2

m
m
%
%

B
S
1
d
GL

TABULATION
SL NO.

CHAINAGE

c/c

CENTRAL

(m)

GRADIENT

DISTANCE

DEPTH

100

100

200

100

300

100

400

100

500

100

600

-1.5

100

7.5

700

-1.5

100

800

-1.5

100

4.5

10

900

-1.5

100

11

1000

-1.5

100

1.5

a. Trapezoidal method
Total volume = V = L*((A1+An)/2+A2+A3+A4++An-1)
Tota

1065000 m3

b. Prismoidal method
Total volume = V = L/3*(A1+An+(4*Sum of A even) + (2* Sum of A odd))
Tota 1076666.7 m3

PRISMOIDAL ER 11666.667 m3

QUANTITY OF EARTHWORK

DEPTH OF EARTHWORK (in m)

10
8
6
4
2
0
0

100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000

CHAINAGE (in m)

AREAS
250
200
150
AREAS (in Sq.m)

100
50
0
0

100

200

300

400

500

600

CHAINAGE (in m)

700

800

900 1000

VAIBHAV K
2JI11CV060
5th A

n level with side slope


0m and falling gradient
depth at the zero
ezodal and Simpsons

AREA

AREA

NO.
A1

(B*d+s*d2)

A2

75

A3

102

A4

133

A5

168

A6

207

A7

150

A8

102

A9

63

A10

33

A11

12

52

um of A odd))

00 700 800 900 1000

800

900 1000

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