Eastern Visayas State University

College of Civil Engineering

Department of Engineering
Ormoc City

CE 215
Fundamentals of Surveying

Name : Christian Jim T. Polleros

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering

Instructor : Engr. Antonio E. Naboya, Jr., CE, GE, RMP

Date Conducted : Sept. 3, 2019

Date Submitted : Sept. 10, 2019

Laboratory Exercise NO.4

DETERMINING AREA OF RECTILINEAR FIELD BY TAPE

I. Introduction

Area is the quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional figure or shape or planar
lamina, in the plane.

Rectilinear is used to mean “straight,” so if something moves in a straight line, it has rectilinear
motion. A photographer’s rectilinear lens reflects images accurately, so their straight lines don’t
appear curved, this word comes from the Latin root rectus, meaning “straight”

II. Objective

a) To learn how to measure horizontal angles with tape.

b) To determine the area of a rectilinear field with tape.

III. Instrument and Accessories

 Steel Tape
 Markers

IV. Procedures

1. Establish the corners of the assigned field and also establish with in the field a centrally-
located point.
2. Subdivide the field into a convenient series of connected triangles (refer to accompanying
figure). Use pegs, hubs, or pins to mark the vertices of each triangle. Call these point A, B,
C, and etc.
3. From the central located point, measure distances to each point defining the corners of
vertices of each triangle. Call these distances d1, d2, and etc.

A field subdivided into triangles.

 4. Refer to the accompanying sample tabulation for the recording of observed field data.

V. Computation

1. Determining the area of Each Triangles.

Heron’s formula

𝑑𝑎 +𝑑𝑏 +𝑑𝑐
𝑠=
2

𝐴𝑟𝑒𝑎 = √𝑠(𝑠 − 𝑑𝑎 )(𝑠 − 𝑑𝑏 )(𝑠 − 𝑑𝑐 )

dc db
Area

A da
C

2. Calculating the Total Area. Where:

At = A1 + A2 + A3 + A4 + A5 + A6 At = total area of the field, and A1, A2, and

etc. areas of individual triangles.

Table 1
TRIANGLE SIDES s AREA
ABC AB=19.55m BC=29.42m CA=24.17m 36.57 234.91m2
ACD AC=24.17m CD=22.81m DA=15.14m 31.06 167.65m2
ADE AD=15.14m DE=25.49m EA=30.65m 35.64 192.37m2
AEF AE=30.65m EF=20.55m FA=17.70m 34.45 174.58m2
AFG AF=17.70m FG=36.15m GA=31.10m 42.48 275.57m2
AGB AG=31.10m GB=33.40m BA=19.55m 42.03 298.33m2
TOTAL : 1,343.21m2

VI. Figures
VII. Discussion

When the activity is executed, the chief of party assigned every member as a Head tapeman,
recorder, computer and rear tapeman. The recorder sketches the location and subdivided the field
into a convenient series of connected triangles. The Head tapeman started measuring by the help
of rear tapeman and at the same time the recorder is taking notes in the measurements from the
center or in point A to point B, point B to point C etc. After taking all the measurements the
computer used Heron’s formula to get every area and sum up all the sub-area’s to get the final
area that resulted to 1,343.21m2.

VIII. Conclusion
Therefore, the easiest way to solve the area of a rectilinear field is to subdivided the field into a
convenient series of connected triangles and use Heron’s formula to get the sub-area’s and sum
up all the sub-area’s to get the final area.