Survey Operations at Site

Description: The course will allow you to acquire the knowledge, skills and abilities to solve problems on topographic maps and plans, to perform a complex of geodetic works associated with large-scale surveying for the preparation of topographic plans using modern technology, to create a planimetric and height surveying base, as well as to solve various engineering and geodesic tasks arising at the construction site.

Amount of credits: 3

Course Workload:

Component: Component by selection

Cycle: Base disciplines

Goal

• To give students an idea of: - types of geodetic engineering surveys carried out at the construction site; - methods of creating a geodetic surveying base at a construction site; - geodetic partitioning works; - as-built survey; - methods of geodetic observations of deformations of engineering structures.

Objective

• The student should know the composition and technology of the surveying works applied at the construction site.
• The student must be able to: - freely read the topographic map and solve graphical and calculation tasks on its basis; - independently carry out geodetic measurements and works related to solving typical design and construction tasks by means of geodetic instruments and tools; - perform mathematical processing of geodetic measurement results; - graphically design measurement results (construction of topographic plan, profiles, plans of horizontal and vertical leveling of the surface).

Learning outcome: knowledge and understanding

• Knowledge of: - specifics of surveying and mapping work; - geodetic equipment used at the construction site.

Learning outcome: applying knowledge and understanding

• Ability to apply modern methods and ways of geodetic works at the construction site using modern technologies and software.

Learning outcome: formation of judgments

• Ability to analyze information, make reasoned judgments, and draw valid conclusions about the manner in which various surveying activities are performed at a construction site

Learning outcome: communicative abilities

• Ability to perform organizational and managerial functions in a team

Learning outcome: learning skills or learning abilities

• Skills: - working with geodetic equipment; - mathematical processing of various geodetic measurements; - creating large-scale topographic plans; - surface leveling with construction of cartograms of earthworks; - geodetic partitioning works; - geodetic observation of deformations of engineering structures.

Teaching methods

interactive lecture (using the following active forms of learning: guided discussion or conversation; moderation; showing slides or educational films; brainstorming; motivational speaking);

constructing scenarios for different situations based on given conditions;

information and communication (e.g. lessons in computer class with the use of professional application software packages);

search and research (independent research activity of students in the learning process);

solution of learning tasks.

Assessment of the student's knowledge

Teacher oversees various tasks related to ongoing assessment and determines students' current performance twice during each academic period. Ratings 1 and 2 are formulated based on the outcomes of this ongoing assessment. The student's learning achievements are assessed using a 100-point scale, and the final grades P1 and P2 are calculated as the average of their ongoing performance evaluations. The teacher evaluates the student's work throughout the academic period in alignment with the assignment submission schedule for the discipline. The assessment system may incorporate a mix of written and oral, group and individual formats.

The evaluating policy of learning outcomes by work type

Evaluation form

The student's final grade in the course is calculated on a 100 point grading scale, it includes:

• 40% of the examination result;
• 60% of current control result.

The final grade is calculated by the formula:

 

Where Midterm 1, Midterm 2are digital equivalents of the grades of Midterm 1 and 2;

E is a digital equivalent of the exam grade.

Final alphabetical grade and its equivalent in points:

The letter grading system for students' academic achievements, corresponding to the numerical equivalent on a four-point scale:

Topics of lectures

• The shape and size of the Earth
• Systems of coordinates and heights used in geodesy
• Orientation of lines (azimuths, directional angles, rhombuses)
• Topographic maps, plans, terrain profiles
• Relief of the Earth's surface and its representation on topographic maps and plans
• Angular and linear measurements
• RMS, marginal and relative error
• Leveling
• Engineering surveys for construction
• Engineering and geodetic reference networks
• General technology of demarcation works
• Methods of delineation works (forward and reverse angular plotting, linear plotting, polar coordinates, line plotting, rectangular coordinates, lateral levelling)
• Satellite methods of measurement in geodetic works
• Methods of surface levelling
• Observation of deformations of engineering structures by geodetic methods

Key reading

• Yunusov A.G., Belikov A.B., Baranov V.N., Kashirkin Yu. - Geodesy. Moscow: Academic Project; Gaudeamus, 2020
• Popov V.N., Chekalin S.I. Geodesy. - Moscow: Mountain Book, 2017.
• Kasymkanova H.M., Madimarova G.S. Geodezicheskoe obespechenie montazhnyh rabot i geodezicheskij kontrol' v stroitel'stve. - Almaty: KazNTU, 2012

Further reading

• Atroshko E.K., Ivanova M.M., Marendich V.B. Geodesy in Industrial and Civil Engineering. - Gomel: BelGUT, 2009
• Mikhalenko E.B., Zagryadskaya N.N., Belyaev N.D. Engineering Geodesy. Solution of basic engineering problems on plans and maps. - St. Petersburg: Polytechnical University Press, 2011
• SP RK 1.02-105-2014. Engineering surveys for construction. The main provisions. - Astana: Publishing house of standards, 2014