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What is Survey in Engineering? Purpose, Types, and Uses in 2024

Ramesh Pradhan
Last updated: 2025/01/21 at 5:22 PM
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Surveying is the way to decide the relative places of various objects on the surface of the earth by estimating flat distances among them and setting up a guide to any reasonable scale.

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What is a Survey in engineering?What is the objective of surveying?What is the purpose of surveying?What are the uses of Surveying?Primary Name of Survey in EngineeringPlane Surveying in EngineeringGeodetic Survey in Engineering Arrangement endless supply of fieldArrangement based on objectArrangement based on instruments utilizedWhat is the principle of engineering surveying?

A survey was done to set up the cadastral guide showing property limits.  

What is a Survey in engineering?

Surveying is the art of determining the relative position of a point above or below the surface of the earth using linear and angular measurements.

The survey can find out horizontal distance elevation and direction. Surveying is the art of measuring horizontal distance and vertical distance, horizontal angle, and vertical angle, and position of a point below the earth’s surface or above the earth’s surface.

Any position of a point is located by measuring distance direction and angle (horizontal &vertical). In the survey, many kinds of survey instruments are used. Such as total station, chain or tape, leveling, ranging rod, arrow, peg, staff, theodolite, etc.

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What is the objective of surveying?

To prepare a map to show the relative position of an object on the surface of the earth.

Show the natural features such as villages, towns, roads, railways, trainways, ropeways, rivers, etc.

To draw a map on a suitable scale.

What is the purpose of surveying?

The surveying can be measuring distance and angles for the following purpose:

Find out the relative position of points on the surface of the earth.

Established line and grade for the construction of the building, roads, irrigation dam, hydropower dam, and other engineering structures.

Calculates area volume and other quantities.

Prepare an essential map and diagram of an earth’s surface area.

What are the uses of Surveying?

Prepare the topo map.

To Make a military map

Make a contour map

To prepare a geological map to determine areas including the underground resources of the earth.

To make an engineering map to show the engineering work. Like a road, irrigation, dam, hydropower, etc.

To make a cadastral map to show the boundary of area houses, temples, and palaces.

Primary Name of Survey in Engineering

Plan Survey

Geodetic Survey

Plane Surveying in Engineering

Plane Surveying is that sort of surveying where the earth’s mean surface is considered a plane and the spheroidal shape is disregarded. All triangles framed by survey lines are viewed as plane triangles. The level line is viewed as straight and all plumb lines are viewed as equal.   followings are the basic information of plane surveying

When the radius of curvature of the world isn’t taken into consideration.

Small areas and small distances are covered

The degree of accuracy is relatively low.

American survey put 250 km2 for treating survey as Plane, but the controlling factor should be a degree of precision instead of the extent of the world.

Geodetic Survey in Engineering

Geodetic Surveying is that kind of surveying fit as a fiddle of the earth consider. All lines lying on the surface bent lines and the triangles are around triangles.

It accordingly, includes circular geometry. All Geodetic surveys incorporate work of greater greatness and a serious level of accuracy.

The object of the geodetic survey is to decide the exact situation on the surface of the earth, of an arrangement of generally removed focuses which structure control stations to which survey of less exactness might allow.

Followings are the some basic information about the geodetic survey:

  1. When the radius of curvature of the earth is taken into account is known as a geodetic survey.
  2. Large areas and enormous distances are covered.
  3. The object of the geodetic survey is to work out precise positions on the surface of the earth.
  4. Refined Instruments and Methods are used.
  5. The survey was conducted by Government agencies.

Arrangement endless supply of field

There are three kinds of surveying based upon the idea of the field which is as per the following:

Land Surveying: It has an additional name

I) Topographical Survey

ii) Cadastral Survey and

iii) City Survey.

It by and large arrangements with regular or fake highlights ashore like waterways, streams, lakes, wood, slopes, streets, railroads, channels, towns, water supply frameworks, structures, and properties.

Marine Surveying: Marine or hydrographic survey manages waterways for reason for the route, water supply, harbor works, or for assurance of mean ocean level. The work comprises the estimation of the release of streams, making a geological survey of shores and banks, taking and finding soundings to decide the profundity of water, and noticing the fluctuations of the sea tide.

Galactic Surveying: The cosmic survey offers the surveyor methods for deciding the supreme area of any point or the total area of and heading of any line on the surface of the earth. This comprises perceptions of the sublime bodies like the sun or any fixed star.

Arrangement based on object

Based on the object, there are four sorts of surveying which are as per the following:

Land surveying permits you to comprehend your land limits. A survey is an act to find, portray, landmark, and guide the limits and corners of a bundle of land. It may likewise incorporate the geography of the bundle, the area of structures, and different upgrades made to the package.

Mine surveyors are answerable for keeping an exact arrangement of the mine all in all and will refresh guides of the surface format to represent new structures and different constructions, just as surveying the underground mine activities to track the mining activity.

The Archeological Survey of India is an Indian government organization connected to the Ministry of Culture that is liable for archeological examination and the protection and conservation of social landmarks in the country.

Military Survey, as the assignment proposes, is to give guides to every one of the three administrations – Army, Navy, and Air Force. What’s more, it likewise gives guides to the paramilitary powers, focal outfitted police powers, and police associations on request from the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Arrangement based on instruments utilized

Based on the different sorts of instruments utilized, the survey in engineering can be characterized into six kinds.

Chain surveying is the part of surveying where just straight estimation makes in the field. This is reasonable for the survey of little zones with straightforward subtleties and a genuinely level zone. It gets its name from the way that the standard hardware regularly utilizes the chain.

Compass surveying is a kind of surveying where the bearings of surveying lines are determined with an attractive compass, and the length of the surveying lines is estimated with a tape or chain or laser range locater. The compass by and large used to run a navigation line.

The plane Table survey is a technique for surveying where the fieldwork is complete on the field. In this surveying no need for official work. In this survey calculation of data and drawing are completed simultaneously on the surveying field. So this survey saves time-consuming for official work. But this type of survey is not precise.

Theodolite, an essential surveying instrument of obscure root yet returning to the sixteenth-century English mathematician Leonard Digges; used to gauge flat and vertical points. In its advanced structure, it comprises a telescope mounted to turn both evenly and vertically.

The tachometer is a branch of angular surveying.

In which the horizontal and vertical distances are measured by optical means as opposed to the ordinary process of chain and tape. The special types of instruments- transit theodolite and stadia rod mostly used to do this survey.

On the other hand, other conventional surveying methods like chain surveying or traverse surveying need the surveyor to take a linear measurement on the field with a tape or a chain. These are relatively slow processes and also tiresome.

Photographic surveying

Arrangement based on techniques utilized

Based on the Strategies received, surveying can be arraigned

Triangulation surveying

Navigated surveying

What is the principle of engineering surveying?

The following important principle of the survey can be essential to apply in an engineering survey:

Working from hole to part

The main idea of working from whole to part is to prevent the accumulation of errors in the survey with the less precise method.

A sufficient number of points with a high degree.

Minimize the error within the framework.

Location of point by measurement from two control points

Independent check

Consistency

Economy of accuracy

Scientific honesty

Safeguarding

So these are the types of surveys in engineering. I hope you guys this information is very helpful for you. if you have any queries please comment below in the comment section. If you have any suggestions or queries about the survey in engineering please comment to me.

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