This book is an introductory text in surveying for civil, architecture and mining engineering students. It is also suitable for various professional courses in surveying.
Written in a simple and lucid language, the book presents a thorough introduction to the subject. Different measurement errors with their types and nature are described along with measurements of horizontal distances and electronic distances measurements.
This text covers in detail the topics in levelling, angles and directions and compass survey. The functions and uses of different instruments, such as theodolites, tacheometers and stadia rods are also covered in the text. Besides, the book elaborates different fields of surveying, such as plane table surveying, topographical surveying, construction surveying and underground surveys.
Finally, the book includes a chapter on computer applications in surveying.
Features:
- Includes about 400 figures to explain the fundamentals of surveying.
- Uses SI units throughout the book.
- Offers more than 170 fully-solved examples including the questions generated from premier universities.
- Provides a large number of problems and answers at the end of each chapter.
- Incorporates objective questions from AMIE exams and Indian Engineering Services exams.
About the Author:
S. K. Roy, Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur), has taught for more than 30 years at Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College and Bengal Engineering and Science University. He has coauthored books on Reinforced Concrete, Prestressed Concrete and Structural Analysis.