This comprehensive textbook on surveying covers, in a single volume, all the topics prescribed at the undergraduate level in civil engineering in India. It presents the various methods of surveying and the underlying concepts of surveying, including modern and advanced surveying techniques and instruments such as Total Station. The narrative is enlivened with glimpses of the historical development of the subject. The book is well illustrated with diagrams and is replete with worked-out examples and exercises. New to the revised edition are discussions on trilateration, methods of determination of time, longitude and latitude of a place, azimuth of a survey line, Total Station, geographic information system and global positioning system (GPS).
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C Venkatramaiah retired as Professor of Civil Engineering from the Sri Venkateswara University College of Engineering, Tirupati. He had served earlier on the faculties of Engineering College, Kakinada; College of Engineering, Guindy, Madras; and RVR & JC College of Engineering, Guntur. He has over four decades of teaching experience and has dealt with a wide variety of subjects in civil engineering. He obtained his BE degree from the Andhra University, his MSc (Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering) from Madras University and PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He has to his credit several papers and articles and has authored four books in the areas of geotechnical engineering, engineering mechanics, structural analysis and surveying.
Foreword Preface
Appendix A: SI Units Appendix B: List of Symbols Answers to Numerical Problems Objective Questions in Surveying Answers to Objective Questions