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Code: 9A01303
B.Tech II Year I Semester (R09) Regular and Supplementary Examinations, November 2012
SURVEYING
(Civil Engineering)
Time: 3 hours
Max Marks: 70
Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry equal marks
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1 (a) Describe briefly the use of various accessories of a plane table.

(b) Distinguish between resection and intersection methods as applied to plane table surveying.
2 (a)
(b)

Describe various types of bearings.

An offset is measured with an accuracy of 1 in 30 and the error in laying out the division is
4. If the scale of plotting is 1cm = 20 m, find the limiting length of the offset.

3 (a)
(b)

Explain briefly, the uses of contour maps.

A level was set up between two stations A and B. The distance to station A was 470 m and
the reading on the staff held at A was 1.855 m. The distance to station B was 690 m and the
reading on the staff held at B was 2.385 m. Find the true difference in elevation between A
and B.

4 (a)
(b)

List the general methods of calculating area.

Explain any one method giving its advantages, limitation and suitability for a given type of
work.

5 (a)

Define the following terms associated with the angle measurements with a theodolite:
(i) Vertical axis, (ii) Trunnion axis, (iii) Axis of plate level and (iv) Centering.
Can you use a theodolite as levelling instrument? If so how?

(b)
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Derive an expression for the horizontal distance of a vertical staff from a tacheometer, if the
line of sight is inclined.

A curve of radius 600 m with deflection angle 98 is to be set out by perpendicular offsets
from the tangent. Tabulate the offset values till the offset is not more than 20 m. The
remaining curve has to be set from a new tangent from the last point set. Determine the
direction of the new tangent or the point at which this tangent intersects the backward
tangent point.

8 (a)
(b)

Explain the different methods for base line measurement.

What is geodetic length? Explain how it is derived.

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Code: 9A01303

B.Tech II Year I Semester (R09) Regular and Supplementary Examinations, November 2012
SURVEYING
(Civil Engineering)
Time: 3 hours
Max Marks: 70
Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry equal marks
*****
1

Explain, with neat diagrams the construction and working of the following:
(a) Optical square.
(b) Cross staff.

2 (a)
(b)

What is declination? What are different types of variations in declination?

In an old survey made when the declination was 4 W, the magnetic bearing of a given line
was 210. The declination in the same locality is now 10 E. What are the true and present
magnetic bearing of the line?

3 (a)
(b)

Explain the factors to be considered while deciding the contour interval for a survey.
An observer standing on the deck of a ship was able to just see the top of a lighthouse at the
horizon. If the observers eye is 8 m above sea level and the lighthouse is 60 m high, find the
distance of the observer from the lighthouse.

Find out the volume of earthwork in a road cutting 120 m long from the following data:
The formation width =10 m; Side slopes =1 to 1;
Average depth of cutting along the center line = 5 m
Slope of ground in cross section =10 to 1.

5 (a)

Define the following terms:

(i) Transiting, (ii) Telescope normal and (iii) Swinging telescope.
What are consecutive coordinates and independent coordinates? Explain briefly.

(b)
6 (a)
(b)

Explain the tangential method of tachometry.

A tachometer was set up at a station P and observations were made to a staff held normal to
the line of sight over point Q. The vertical angle measured was 60 36'. The three hair readings
were 1.905, 2.480 and 3.055 m. The reading from P, with the line of sight horizontal, to a BM
of RL 852.550 m was 1.855 m. If the instrument constants are 100 and 0.5, find the RL of Q.

7 (a)
(b)

What is meant by Degree of curve? Derive its relationship with radius of curve.
If the tangents to a circular curve having 500 m radius intersect at an angle of 120 and the
chainage of point of intersection is 1520.5 m calculate the different elements of a simple
circular curve.

8 (a)
(b)

What is Geodetic surveying? How it is different from plane surveying.

Explain the importance of electronic surveying in the field of surveying.
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Code: 9A01303
B.Tech II Year I Semester (R09) Regular and Supplementary Examinations, November 2012
SURVEYING
(Civil Engineering)
Time: 3 hours
Max Marks: 70
Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry equal marks
*****
1 (a) Explain the difference between prismatic compass and surveyors compass.
(b) Define the following terms:
(i) Magnetic bearing, (ii) Local attraction, (iii) Back bearing and (iv) Magnetic declination.
2 (a)
(b)

What is a traverse? What are different types of traverses? Briefly explain the methods of traversing.
The fore and back bearings of the lines of a closed traverse are as follows correct the bearings for
local attraction.
Line
F.B
B.B
AB
32 30 214 30
BC 124 30 303 15
CD 181 00
1 00
DA 289 30 108 45

3 (a)

Explain the differences between the height of collimation method and the rise and fall method of
reduction of levels.
Eight readings were taken with a level in sequence as follows: 1.585, 1.315, 2.305, 1.225, 1.325,
1.065, 1.815, and 2.325.The level was shifted after the third and sixth readings. The second
change point was a benchmark of elevation 186.975 m. Find the reduced levels of the remaining
stations. Use the rise and fall method.

(b)

Compute the area of cross-section if the formation width is 12 m, side slopes are 1 to 1, average
height along the center line is 5 m, and the transverse slope of the ground is15 to 1.

5 (a)
(b)

Explain the principle and necessity of conducting trigonometric levelling.

Explain the features and use of an electronic theodolite.

6 (a)

Derive the distance and elevation formulae for an inclined line of sight with an angle of elevation
and an angle of depression, staff is held vertical.
Vertical angles were measured to vanes fixed at the 1-m and 4-m marks of a staff held at a station
Q from the instrument kept at a station P. The vertical angles were 3030' and 6015'. The reading on
a BM of RL 985.550 m from P was 2.345 m. Find the horizontal distance PQ and RL of Q.

(b)

A curve of radius 300 m has a defection angle of 32 .Calculate the radial and perpendicular offsets
from the tangent to locate points on the curve. Calculate and tabulate the offsets. The number of
offsets must be such that the offset length is less than 20 m.

Explain with sketches the different triangulation systems.

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Code: 9A01303
B.Tech II Year I Semester (R09) Regular and Supplementary Examinations, November 2012
SURVEYING
(Civil Engineering)
Time: 3 hours
Max Marks: 70
Answer any FIVE questions
All questions carry equal marks
*****
1 (a) Explain the principle on which chain survey is based.
(b) What are different methods of making linear measurements? Describe briefly.
2 (a)
(b)

Describe different types of prisms used for electronic distance measurements.

A survey line CD intersects a high building. To prolong the line beyond this obstacle, a
perpendicular DE, 200 m long is set out at D. From E, two lines EF and EG are set out at
angles of 45 and 60 with ED respectively. Determine the length of EF and EG in order that
the points F and G may lie on the prolongation of CD, and also find the obstructed length DF.

Explain the indirect methods of contouring. Explain the advantages and disadvantages of
these methods.

Compute the volume of the earth work in a road cutting 100 metres in length from the
following data:
Formation width 8 metres; sides 2 to 1; Average depth of cutting along the centre line = 1.6m;
Transverse cross section of the ground 8 to 1.

5 (a) List out the method used to measure the horizontal angles by using a theodolite. Explain any
one method in detail.
(b) Briefly explain the method of prolonging a straight line with a transit theodolite.
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What are the different methods employed in tacheometric survey? Describe the method
commonly used.

Two arcs of radius 600 m and 800 m form a compound curve with a deflection angle of 74
30'. The angle subtended by the arc of radius 600 m at its centre is 40. Calculate the
tangential and deflection angles required to set out the first arc of the compound curve; the
first arc is to be set out with the theodolite at the backward tangent point. The peg interval is
20 m and the chainage of the first tangent point is 863.5 m.

8 (a)
(b)

What are the precautions to be taken while using a total station?

What are the sources of errors in total station surveying?

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