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
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Taught in Gaelic? |
No |
Course description |
The course consists of surveying for construction. |
Entry Requirements
Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites |
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Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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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
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Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
King's Buildings | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | | 09:00 - 10:50 |
First Class |
Week 1, Friday, 09:00 - 10:50, Zone: King's Buildings. Lecture Theatre 1, Sanderson Building |
Additional information |
35 hour(s) per week for 1 week(s). One-week field course. |
Exam Information |
Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours:Minutes |
Stationery Requirements |
Comments |
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 1:30 | 12 sides / graph | | Resit Exam Diet (August) | | 1:30 | 12 sides / graph | |
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: A.Giannopoulos@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Mrs Sharon Potter
Tel: (0131 6)51 7079
Email: Sharon.Potter@ed.ac.uk |
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31 January 2011 7:27 am
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