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Elementary surveying : including mensuration, road construction and drainage / John Malcolm, D. H. Fryer.

By: Malcolm, John.
Contributor(s): Fryer, D. H.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : University Tutorial P., 1977Edition: 3rd ed. revised.Description: viii, 287 p. : ill., tables, diagrs. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0723106738 .Subject(s): SurveyingDDC classification: 526.9
Contents:
Chain surveying - instruments -- Chain surveying - Field procedure -- Chain surveying - errors - obstructing buildings -- Chain surveying -- Office work- scales, drawing instruments and materials, plan drawing, conventional signs, lettering, colouring -- Office work a drawing exercise: plotting a small survey -- Office work - plan copying, enlarging and reducing, measurement of areas, subdivision of areas -- O.s. maps and plans -- Levelling 1- definitions, bench marks, instruments and levelling staff -- Levelling 2 - temporary adjustments, permanent adjustments -- Levelling 3 - using the level and staff, the level book -- Levelling 4 - curvature and refraction, precautions, cross sections -- Levelling 5 - earthworks, contours, drainage, sight rails, levelling, a building site , trigonometrical levelling -- Compass surveying: prismatic compass -- Vernier scale, box sextant, plane tabling -- The theodolite - description, adjustment, measurement of angles -- Uses of theodolite - triangulation, theodolite transverse, rectangular coordinates -- Curve ranging -- Tacheometry -- Road construction -- Land drainage.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 526.9 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00183724
Total holds: 0

Includes index.

Chain surveying - instruments -- Chain surveying - Field procedure -- Chain surveying - errors - obstructing buildings -- Chain surveying -- Office work- scales, drawing instruments and materials, plan drawing, conventional signs, lettering, colouring -- Office work a drawing exercise: plotting a small survey -- Office work - plan copying, enlarging and reducing, measurement of areas, subdivision of areas -- O.s. maps and plans -- Levelling 1- definitions, bench marks, instruments and levelling staff -- Levelling 2 - temporary adjustments, permanent adjustments -- Levelling 3 - using the level and staff, the level book -- Levelling 4 - curvature and refraction, precautions, cross sections -- Levelling 5 - earthworks, contours, drainage, sight rails, levelling, a building site , trigonometrical levelling -- Compass surveying: prismatic compass -- Vernier scale, box sextant, plane tabling -- The theodolite - description, adjustment, measurement of angles -- Uses of theodolite - triangulation, theodolite transverse, rectangular coordinates -- Curve ranging -- Tacheometry -- Road construction -- Land drainage.

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