Surveying for Engineers

This classic text takes the reader through everything they need to know, from traditional methods through to the very latest technological developments. Ideal whether students are studying surveying as a separate discipline or as part of a civil engineering, building or construction course: accessible, well illustrated and comprehensive.

11.7 Quality assurance and accuracy in surveying and setting out.

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; 1.1 Engineering surveying; 1.2 Survey institutions and organisations; Chapter 2 Levelling; 2.1 Heights, datums and bench marks; 2.2 Levelling equipment; 2.3 Field procedure for levelling; 2.4 Calculating reduced levels; 2.5 Precision of levelling; 2.6 Sources of error in levelling; 2.7 Other levelling methods; Chapter 3 Angle measurement; 3.1 Definition of horizontal and vertical angles; 3.2 Accuracy of angle measurement; 3.3 Electronic theodolites; 3.4 Optical theodolites; 3.5 Measuring and setting out angles.

3.6 Sources of error when measuring and setting out anglesChapter 4 Distance measurement: taping; 4.1 Measurements and methods; 4.2 Equipment and fieldwork for taping; 4.3 Systematic errors in taping; 4.4 Precision and applications of taping; 4.5 Steel taping worked examples; Chapter 5 Total stations; 5.1 Integrated total stations; 5.2 Electromagnetic distance measurement; 5.3 Instrumentation; 5.4 Electronic data recording and processing; 5.5 Sources of error for total stations; 5.6 Measuring heights (reduced levels) with total stations; Chapter 6 Traversing and coordinate calculations.

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