Re: Foresight Civil Design And Survey 49
Cherrie Patete
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When you survey a future fish-farm site, you will use a very similar method. You can then prepare a topographic map of the site (see Chapter 9), which will become a useful guide for designing the fish-farm.
18. You need for example to survey open traverse ABCDE from known point A. You require four turning points, TP1, TP2, TP3 and TP4. You want to know:
- the elevations of points B, C, D and E;
- the horizontal distances between these points;
- the position of each point in relation to the others, which will help you in mapping them.
Proceed with the differential levelling as described earlier, measuring foresights and backsights from each levelling station. Measure azimuths and horizontal distances as you progress from the known point A toward the end point E. All the azimuths of the turning points of a single line should be the same. This will help you check your work. 19. Make a table similar to the one shown in step 15, and add three extra columns to it for recording and checking the azimuth values. Enter all your measurements in this table. At the bottom of the table, make all the checks on the elevation calculations, as you have learned to do them in the preceding steps. Example
31. You will level the square grid points in two stages.
- Starting from the bench-mark, measure the differences in elevation for all the base points A1, A2, A3, ... An. This is called longitudinal profile levelling (see Section 8.2).
- Then, starting at these base-line points with known elevations, measure the differences in elevation for all points of each of the perpendiculars, on each side of the base line (for example, B2, C2 and D2 followed by E2, F2 and G2). This is called cross-section levelling (see Section 8.2).
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The Army; through the Corps of Engineers civilworks program, has been the principal developer of the nation's waterresources. Recent years have seen a change in public policy toward allresource development, with the recognition that this nation's naturalresources are finite. Yet a growing population and an ever-advancing technologyuse water for a variety of sometimes conflicting purposes: navigation, floodcontrol, hydropower, irrigation, municipal and industrial water supply, fishand wildlife, and recreation. The corps, in its planning, design,construction, and operating capacities, faces the task of weighing each projectand its alternatives, balancing developmental and environmental considerations,and selecting the best solution to meet the needs and aspirations of thepublic.
Measures to insure the safety of structuralcomponents of the corps' civil works projects do not end with the successfulaccomplishment of design and construction. There is a continuing need forperiodic surveillance of the behavior and condition of completed structures toinsure their structural stability, safety, and operational adequacy, especiallywhen failure or partial failure would endanger human life or cause substantialproperty damage.
Duringfiscal year 1971, work continued on developing new, improved methodologies toestimate water resource needs in areas of major corps participation: floodcontrol, water supply, navigation, water quality, and recreation. In additionto the work on improvement of needs estimates, attention in fiscal year 1971was focused on developing a five-year survey program responsive to new andemerging national priorities. In this regard, information is being gatheredthat will provide a basis for orienting surveys to the resolution of water andrelated problems for the urban areas of the country. A five-year waterresources investment program, reflecting the varying regional requirements,was submitted for consideration by the administration as a basis for selectingnew construction and planning starts, and for allocating the funds availablefor civil works among nineteen major national regions.
While civil works research is still oriented primarilytoward problems of engineering design, construction technology, and operationand maintenance of completed works, increasing attention is being given to thenonengineering aspects of plan formulation and evaluation, particularly withrespect to economics, water quality, and aquatic biology and ecology. Insupport of the planning effort, the fiscal year 1971 program included researchto improve flood plain management and de-
All the staff reading after BS and before FS in the surveying is known as Intermediate reading.3) Fore Sight (FS)The last reading of staff in surveying taken before replacing or changing the position of the tripod or leveling is known as foresight-reading.How to read Staff rod?How to calculate height of instrument in surveying?First of all, we should do temporary and permanent adjustments to the levelling. Let me tell you in short, temporary adjustment of the levelling is to level the tripod, horizontal and vertical centering, etc. and Permanent adjustment of the level is to focus on the staff with the telescope head.
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