CE3351 Surveying and Levelling Syllabus - Anna University

CE3351 SURVEYING AND LEVELLING

L T P C: 3 0 0 3 | Total Hours: 45 Periods

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• To introduce the rudiments of plane surveying and geodetic principles to Civil Engineers and to learn the various methods of plane and geodetic surveying to solve the real world problems. To introduce the concepts of Control Surveying. To introduce the basics of Astronomical Surveying

UNIT I: FUNDAMENTALS OF CONVENTIONAL SURVEYING

Definition - Classifications - Basic principles - Equipment and accessories for ranging and chaining - Methods of ranging - Well conditioned triangles - Chain traversing - Compass - Basic principles - Types - Bearing - System and conversions - Sources of errors and Local attraction - Magnetic declination - Dip - compass traversing - Plane table and its accessories - Merits and demerits - Radiation - Intersection - Resection - Plane table traversing.

UNIT II: LEVELLING

Level line - Horizontal line - Datum - Benchmarks - Levels and staves - Temporary and permanent adjustments - Methods of leveling - Fly leveling - Check leveling - Procedure in leveling - Booking - Reduction - Curvature and refraction - Reciprocal leveling - Precise leveling - Contouring.

UNIT III: THEODOLITE SURVEYING

Horizontal and vertical angle measurements - Temporary and permanent adjustments - Heights and distances - Tacheometric surveying - Stadia Tacheometry - Tangential Tacheometry - Trigonometric leveling - Single Plane method - Double Plane method.

UNIT IV: CONTROL SURVEYING AND ADJUSTMENT

Horizontal and vertical control - Methods - Triangulation - Traversing - Gale's table - Trilateration - Concepts of measurements and errors - Error propagation and Linearization - Adjustment methods - Least square methods - Angles, lengths and levelling network.

UNIT V: MODERN SURVEYING

Total Station: Digital Theodolite, EDM, Electronic field book - Advantages - Parts and accessories - Working principle - Observables - Errors - COGO functions - Field procedure and applications.

GPS: Advantages - System components - Signal structure - Selective availability and antispoofing receiver components and antenna - Planning and data acquisition - Data processing - Errors in GPS - Field procedure and applications.

COURSE OUTCOMES

On completion of the course, the student is expected to:

• CO1: Introduce the rudiments of various surveying and its principles.
• CO2: Imparts knowledge in computation of levels of terrain and ground features
• CO3: Imparts concepts of Theodolite Surveying for complex surveying operations
• CO4: Understand the procedure for establishing horizontal and vertical control
• CO5: Imparts the knowledge on modern surveying instruments

TEXT BOOKS

1. Dr. B. C. Punmia, Ashok K. Jain and Arun K Jain, "Surveying Vol. I & II", Lakshmi Publications Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, Sixteenth Edition, 2016.
2. T. P. Kanetkar and S. V. Kulkarni, "Surveying and Levelling, Parts 1 & 2", Pune Vidyarthi Griha Prakashan, Pune, 2008.

REFERENCES

1. R. Subramanian, "Surveying and Levelling", Oxford University Press, Second Edition, 2012.
2. James M. Anderson and Edward M. Mikhail, "Surveying, Theory and Practice", Seventh Edition, McGraw Hill, 2001.
3. Bannister and S. Raymond, "Surveying", Seventh Edition, Longman, 2004.
4. S. K. Roy, "Fundamentals of Surveying", Second Edition, Prentice Hall of India, 2010.
5. K. R. Arora, "Surveying Vol I & II", Standard Book House, Twelfth Edition, 2013.
6. C. Venkatramaiah, "Textbook of Surveying", Universities Press, Second Edition, 2011.