Undergraduate Course: Surveying for Construction 2 (CIVE08014)
Course Outline
| School | School of Engineering |
College | College of Science and Engineering |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Civil |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The course consists of surveying for construction. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | YES: This course involves a Surveying Field Trip, the cost to the student being approximately £120.
The field trip is compulsory for all students takinbg the course, i.e. both for those on Programmes within the Discipline of Civil & Environmental and visiting students and those from other programmes. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student should be able to:
- undertake topographical surveys using theodolites or total stations;
- assess the accuracy of levelling and traverse surveys;
- adjust traverse closure errors;
- produce a scale plan of an area;
- set out earthworks, foundations and curves from given data; and
- measure river discharge using flow velocity observations. |
Assessment Information
Assessed field trip (compulsory) 50%
Examination 50% |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Lectures: Titles & Contents
L1 Introduction
Objectives: establishment of relative positions, setting out.
Categories: geodetic and plane.
L2 Applications, principles, sequence of planning and executing a survey.
Measurements: direct or indirect linear measurement; angular measurement; height difference.
Fixing the position of a point: trilateration; offset; traverse; triangulation.
L3 Optical instruments
Basic features of levels and theodolites. Angular measurement.
L4 Levelling
Applications. Principles and procedures. Two peg test. Booking: Rise and Fall, Height of Collimation. Accuracy. Precise levelling. Operational errors.
L5 Direct linear measurement:
Distance measurement: procedures for taping, booking method; obstacles; plotting conventions. Base line measurement and corrections.
L6 Tacheometry
The staff: Derivation of distance and height formulae. Procedure and methods of observations (conventional, height of instrument, even angle). Accuracy and sources of error. Subtense bar: accuracy, errors.
L7 Electro-magnetic distance measurement & GPS
Technology, methodology and adjustments for EDM and GPS
L8&9 Traverse surveys
Open traverse, closed traverse. Meridian and bearing. Angle observation (included, deflection). Adjustment (Bowditch's method, Theodolite rule, X-Y method). Example using Bowditch.
L10 Setting out
Procedures: co-ordinate and grid methods. Control of excavations. Curve ranging (circular, transition and vertical): setting out methods (theodolite and tape, two theodolites, linear.
L11 Contour surveys
Direct, grid and tacheometric methods.
L12 Earthworks
Area measurement. Volumes.
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| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Surveying for Engineers 3rd Edition
Uren and Price
Macmillan, 1994
Elementary Surveying 8th Edition
Elfick, Fryer, Brinker and Wolf
Harper Collins 1994
Suggested:
Engineering Surveying 5th Edition
Schofield
Butterworth Heinemann 2001
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| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Antonios Giannopoulos
Tel: (0131 6)50 5728
Email: |
Course secretary | Miss Lucy Davie
Tel: (0131 6)50 5687
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