Seatwork 1 – Introduction to Surveying and Measurement of Distance

I. Research. Answer the following and list all the references used.
1. What is the importance of surveying in Civil Engineering? Cite examples to support claim.
2. What are other methods for measuring distance aside from pacing and using tape?

II. Solve the following. Write your complete solutions and box your final answer.

1. A line is recorded as 472.90m long. It is measured with a 0.65 kg tape which is 30.005m long at
20°C under a 50 N pull supported at both ends. During measurement, the temperature is 5°C
and the tape suspended under a 75N pull. The line is measured on 3% grade. E=200 GPa, cross
sectional area of the tape is 3mm2 and the coefficient of linear expansion is 0.0000116m/°C.
Determine the actual tape length during measurement and the true horizontal distance.

2. The sides of a square lot having an area of 2.25 hectares using a 100 m tape that was 0.04m too
short. Compute the error in the area in sq.m.

3. Under a standard pull of 8 kg, the steel tape is 40 m long. A normal tension of 18 kg makes the
elongation of the tape offset the effect of sag. If the tape weighs 0.025 kg/m, and E = 2X106
kg/cm2, determine its cross-sectional area in sq.cm.

4. A line 100m long was paced by a surveyor for four times with the following data: 142, 145, 145.5
and 146. Then another line was paced for four times again with the following results, 893, 893.5,
891, and 895.5. Determine the pace factor of the surveyor and the distance of the new line.

5. A line was measured with a 50 m tape. There were 2 tallies, 8 pins, and the distance from the
last pin to the end of the lne is 2.25 m. Find the length of the line in meters.

6. The correct distance between two points is 220.45m. Using a 100 m tape which is “x” m too
long, the length to be laid on the ground should be 220.406 m. What is the value of “x”?