CE2204 SURVEYING I SYLLABUS | ANNA UNIVERSITY CIVIL ENGINEERING THIRD SEMESTER SYLLABUS REGULATION 2008 2011-2012

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CE2204 SURVEYING I SYLLABUS | ANNA UNIVERSITY CIVIL ENGINEERING THIRD SEMESTER SYLLABUS REGULATION 2008 2011-2012 BELOW IS THE ANNA UNIVERSITY 3RD SEMESTER BE CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT SYLLABUS IT IS APPLICABLE FOR ALL STUDENTS ADMITTED IN THE YEAR 2011-2012 (ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI,TRICHY,MADURAI,TIRUNELVELI,COIMBATORE), 2008 REGULATION OF ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI AND STUDENTS ADMITTED IN ANNA UNIVERSITY CHENNAI DURING 2009

CE2204 SURVEYING I L T P C
3 0 0 3
OBJECTIVE
At the end of the course the student will posses knowledge about Chain surveying, Compass
surveying, Plane table surveying, Levelling, Theodolite surveying and Engineering surveys.
UNIT I INTRODUCTION AND CHAIN SURVEYING 8
Definition - Principles - Classification - Field and office work - Scales - Conventional signs -
Survey instruments, their care and adjustment - Ranging and chaining - Reciprocal ranging -
Setting perpendiculars - well - conditioned triangles - Traversing - Plotting - Enlarging and
reducing figures.
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UNIT II COMPASS SURVEYING AND PLANE TABLE SURVEYING 7
Prismatic compass - Surveyor’s compass - Bearing - Systems and conversions - Local
attraction - Magnetic declination - Dip - Traversing - Plotting - Adjustment of errors - Plane table
instruments and accessories - Merits and demerits - Methods - Radiation - Intersection -
Resection - Traversing.
UNIT III LEVELLING AND APPLICATIONS 12
Level line - Horizontal line - Levels and Staves - Spirit level - Sensitiveness - Bench marks -
Temporary and permanent adjustments - Fly and check levelling - Booking - Reduction -
Curvature and refraction - Reciprocal levelling - Longitudinal and cross sections - Plotting -
Calculation of areas and volumes - Contouring - Methods - Characteristics and uses of contours
- Plotting - Earth work volume - Capacity of reservoirs.
UNIT IV THEODOLITE SURVEYING 8
Theodolite - Vernier and microptic - Description and uses - Temporary and permanent
adjustments of vernier transit - Horizontal angles - Vertical angles - Heights and distances -
Traversing - Closing error and distribution - Gale’s tables - Omitted measurements.
UNIT V ENGINEERING SURVEYS 10
Reconnaissance, preliminary and location surveys for engineering projects - Lay out - Setting
out works - Route Surveys for highways, railways and waterways - Curve ranging - Horizontal
and vertical curves - Simple curves - Setting with chain and tapes, tangential angles by
theodolite, double theodolite - Compound and reverse curves - Transition curves - Functions
and requirements - Setting out by offsets and angles - Vertical curves - Sight distances - Mine
Surveying - instruments - Tunnels - Correlation of under ground and surface surveys - Shafts -
Adits.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXT BOOKS
1. Bannister A. and Raymond S., Surveying, ELBS, Sixth Edition, 1992.
2. Kanetkar T.P., Surveying and Levelling, Vols. I and II, United Book Corporation, Pune,
1994.
3. Punmia B.C. Surveying, Vols. I, II and III, Laxmi Publications, 1989
REFERENCES
1. Clark D., Plane and Geodetic Surveying, Vols. I and II, C.B.S. Publishers and
Distributors, Delhi, Sixth Edition, 1971.
2. James M.Anderson and Edward M.Mikhail, Introduction to Surveying, McGraw-Hill Book
Company, 1985.
3. Heribert Kahmen and Wolfgang Faig, Surveying, Walter de Gruyter, 1995.