Surveying for civil and mine engineers : theory, workshops, and practicals / John Walker, Joseph L. Awange.
Walker, John.; Awange, Joseph L., 1969-
2018
TA545
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Title Surveying for civil and mine engineers : theory, workshops, and practicals / John Walker, Joseph L. Awange.
Author Walker, John.
ISBN 9783319531298 (electronic book)
3319531298 (electronic book)
9783319531281
331953128X
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53129-8
Imprint Cham : Springer, ©2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (271 pages)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-319-53129-8 doi
Call Number TA545
Dewey Decimal Classification 526.9
363.7063
Summary "Indeed, the most important part of engineering work--and also of other scientific work--is the determination of the method of attacking the problem, whatever it may be, whether an experimental investigation, or a theoretical calculation. ... It is by the choice of a suitable method of attack, that intricate problems are reduced to simple phenomena, and then easily solved." Charles Proteus Steinmetz. The structure of this book is to provide a sequence of theory, workshops and practical field sessions that mimic a simple survey project, designed for civil and mining engineers. The format of the book is based on a number of years of experience gained in presenting the course at undergraduate and post graduate levels. The course is designed to guide engineers through survey tasks that the engineering industry feels is necessary for them to have a demonstrated competency in surveying techniques, data gathering and reduction, and report presentation. The course is not d esigned to make engineers become surveyors. It is designed to allow an appreciation of the civil and mine engineering surveyor's job. There are many excellent text books available on the subject of engineering surveying, but they address the surveyor, not the engineer. Hopefully this book will distil many parts of the standard text book. A lot of the material presented is scattered through very disparate sources and has been gathered into this book to show what techniques lie behind a surveyor's repertoire of observational and computational skills, and provide an understanding of the decisions made in terms of the presentation of results. The course has been designed to run over about 6 weeks of a semester, providing a half unit load which complements a computer aided design (CAD) based design project. .
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Added Author Awange, Joseph L., 1969-
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Chapter 1. Fundamental Surveying
Chapter 2. Levelling
Chapter 3. Relief and Vertical Sections
Chapter 4. Total Station: Measurements and Computations
Chapter 5. Traversing
Chapter 6. Total Station Differential Levelling
Chapter 7. Strike And Dip to an Embedded Plane
Chapter 8. Circular Curves
Chapter 9. Vertical Curves
Chapter 10. Global Navigation Satellite System
Chapter 11. Setting Out Of Engineering Structures
Chapter 12. Coordinate Transformation And Least Squares Solutions

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