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B.E./B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATION, APRIL/MAY 2003. Third Semester Civil Engineering CE 234 SURVEYING I Time : Three hours Answer ALL questions. PART A (10 2 = 20 marks) 1. Enumerate the instruments used for measurement of lengths of Maximum : 100 marks

surveylines. 2. Distinguish between perpendicular offset and oblique offset, with neat sketches. 3. What do you understand by quadrantal bearing of a line? 4. What is plane table surveying? When is it preferred? 5. Define sensitivity of a bubble tube. State any two factors affecting the same. 6. Distinguish between differential levelling and reciprocal levelling. 7. Name the two methods of measuring horizontal angles using a theodolite. 8. What is an anallatic lens? 9. State the relationship between the radius of a curve and the degree of the curve.

10.What are transition curves? PART B (5 16 = 80 marks) 11.(i) (ii) State the advantages of Tacheometric surveying. (6)

A theodolite was set up over a station A of Reduced level 44.620 m, the instrument height being 1.425 m. Observations were made to 3 m 0.6 m results are given below. Instrument Station Staff Station Vertical angles Top A A A Reduced Levels. (10) B C D + 9 10 ' + 1 54 ' 5 15 ' Bottom + 3 30 ' 2 24 ' 12 10 ' and marks on a staff held vertically at three stations and the

Find the distances from A to staff stations and determine their

12.(a)

(i)

Illustrate with neat sketches, various types of obstacles encountered in chain surveying.

(ii)

A survey line PQ intersects a pond. To overcome this obstacle two stations A and B were taken on either side of the pond. A line AC, 90 m long was laid down on the left of AB, and a second line AD, 130 m long was laid down on the right of AB. If points C, B and D are on the same straight line and CB = 75 m and BD = 78 m, determine the length AB.

Or (b) (i) Describe how you would range a survey line between two points which are not mutually intervisible because of an intervening mound.

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(ii)

Write short notes on the following : (1) (2) Instruments and accessories to carry out a chain survey Check for errors in chain survey. What are the differences between a prismatic compass and a surveyor's compass? (6)

13.(a)

(i)

(ii)

The following are the particulars of a small traverse survey in which the bearings have been referred to the magnetic meridian, the value of the magnetic declination being 15W. Calculate the true bearings, the coordinates of the traverse stations and the closing error. Line AB BC CD DA Length (m) 470 637 432 565 Or Magnetic Bearing N 06 02 ' W S 82 10 ' E S 02 38 ' W N 84 40 ' W (10)

(b)

State the three point problem and explain Bessel's method of solving the same.

14.(a)

What are the different types of levelling instruments used in levelling? Bring out the essential differences between them and state which is the most preferred one and why? Or

(b)

(i)

What do you understand by reciprocal levelling? When is the procedure adopted? Explain the concept with a sketch.

(ii)

The Reduced levels of the ground at four points P, Q, R and S are 178.32, 178.15, 177.83 and 178.15 m respectively. A deep 3

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pipe line is to be laid so that its invert is to be 10 m below P at a gradient of 1 in 340 to S. The distances PQ, QR and RS are 117.6 m, 264.9 m, 441.9 m. Find the invert levels and depths of trench at Q, R and S. (8) 15.(a) (i) Enumerate the classification of curves in Engineering surveys. (6) (ii) Two straights intersect at a deflection angle of 80 and are connected by a circular curve of radius 10 chains. Find the length of each end tangent, the curve, and the long chord, the Apex distance; the Mid ordinate of the curve and the Degree of the curve. Or (b) (i) How is a simple curve set out by using one theodolite and one chain? (ii) Briefly explain reverse curves and shift of a transition curve. (10)

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