SETTING OUT OF SIMPLE CURVE

Mainly divided into 2 heads:

Linear methods
 High degree of accuracy not required.
 The curve is short.

Angular methods/ Instrument methods

Theodolite is used with or without Tape/chain.

Initials of Setting out

• Measuring Deflection Angle (∆)
• Measuring Tangent Length (T)
• Locating PC
• Computing Length of the curve (l)
• Deciding the Peg Interval
• Calculating Chainage of PC
• Calculating Chainage of PT
• Length of 1st sub chord
• Length of Last sub chord
• Number of Full chords
Linear Methods
 By ordinates or offsets from long chord
 By successive bisection of arcs
 By offsets from tangents
 By offsets from chord produced

Instrument Methods
 Rankins methods of tangential (or deflection) angle
 Two theodolite method
 Tacheometric method
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