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This document provides details about the course "BEG258CI Land Surveying" including: 1) It is a 3 credit hour course taught over 3 semesters focusing on basic land surveying principles and conventional methods. 2) The course objectives are for students to understand fundamental surveying principles and handle different surveying instruments. 3) The course content covers topics like distance measurement, tape and offset surveying, compass surveying, leveling, plane tabling, theodolite usage, area and volume computation, and field astronomy with GPS introduction. 4) Practical exercises include tape surveying, compass traversing

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This document provides details about the course "BEG258CI Land Surveying" including: 1) It is a 3 credit hour course taught over 3 semesters focusing on basic land surveying principles and conventional methods. 2) The course objectives are for students to understand fundamental surveying principles and handle different surveying instruments. 3) The course content covers topics like distance measurement, tape and offset surveying, compass surveying, leveling, plane tabling, theodolite usage, area and volume computation, and field astronomy with GPS introduction. 4) Practical exercises include tape surveying, compass traversing

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Survey-I

BEG258CI

Year: II Semester: III


Teaching Examination Scheme Total Remarks
Schedule Final Internal Assessments Marks
Hours/week Theory Practical Theory Practical
Marks Marks
L T P Duration Marks Duration Marks
3 1 4 3 80 - 25 20 25 150

Course Description: The course in land surveying will taught in three consecutive
semesters. Course BEG258CI deal with basic principle of land surveying. Conventional
methods of surveying will be discussed in length.

Course Objective: After the completion of this course, the students will be able to
• Understand the fundamental principle of land surveying
• Handle different types of surveying instruments.

Course Contents:

1.0. Introduction 3hrs


1.1 Introduction to surveying and its importance to civil engineering
1.2 History and the development of surveying
1 .3 Classification of surveying
1.4 Principle of surveying
1.5 Plans and Maps
1.6 Introduction to scales used in surveying

2.0 Distance measurements 5 hrs


2.1 Types of measurements
2.2 Units of measurements, System of units, significance figures and rounding of
numbers
2.3. Distance measurement technique and instruments used
2.4 Errors, types of errors and sources of errors in making measurements
2.6 Corrections for linear measurements

3.0 Tape and offsets surveying 5 hrs


3.1 Basic principles and geometry of area- measurement
3.2 Terms used in chain surveying
3.3 Field booking methods
3 .4 Obstacles in chaining
3.5 Conventional symbols
4.0 Compass surveying 8 hrs
4. 1 Introduction to compass surveying
4 .2 Meridians, Bearings and angles
4.3 Designation of bearings
4.4 Types of compass
4.5 Local attraction
4.6 Magnetic declination and its variations
4.7 Closing errors and adjustment
4.8 Traverse plotting: By parallel meridians and By included angles

5. 0 Leveling 10 hrs
5. 1 introduction
5.2 Basic principles and importance of leveling
5.3 Different methods of determining elevations
5.5 Two peg test
5.6 Temporary and permanent adjustment of level
5.7 Booking methods and their reductions, arithmetic checks
5.8 Curvature and refraction
5.9 Uses of leveling; profile leveling, cross-sectioning and fly leveling and contouring
5.10 Adjustment of level circuits and Sources of errors in leveling

6.0 Plane Table surveying 2hrs


6.1 Principle of plane table surveying
6.2 Methods of plane tabling
6.3 Advantages and disadvantages of plane tabling

7.0 Introduction to Theodolite 5hrs


7.1 introduction to Theodolite
7.2 Basic definitions
7.3 Temporary adjustment of Theodolite
7.4 Measurement of horizontal angles by direction and repetition methods
7.5 Measurement of vertical angles
7.6 Fundamental lines of Theodolite and its geometry
7.7 Sources of errors

8.0 Computation of Area and Volume 5hrs


8.1 Basic definition
8.2 Area by division into simple figures
8.3 Area by coordinates, area by double meridian distance method and trapezoidal and
Simpson's 1/3 rule
8.4 Measurement of volume by trapezoidal, prismoidal method

9.0 Field Astronomy GPS 2 hrs


9.1 Introduction, definition of terms
9 .2 Geographical coordinate system
9.3 Introduction and components of GPS
Total number of Tutorials: Six (Chapters)

Practicals: Following six exercises will be performed in this course:


• A field survey using tape by direct and indirect methods
• Compass traversing and detailing
• A field survey using level to transfer RL (Fly leveling)
• Traversing and detailing by plane tabling
• Measurement of horizontal and vertical angles using Theodoiite

Requirements: The number of students in each group should not be more than five (5 nos.). A
facilator should not response more than three groups

Reference Books:
• Banister A. & Raymond S., '"Surveying", ELBS Publication
• Punima B. C., " Surveying", khanna Publishers
• Agor R., "A Text book of Surveying"

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