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Surveying for Civil and Mine Engineers

Acquire the Skills in Weeks

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Authors:
  1. John Walker

    1. Department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University Spatial Sciences, Bentley, Australia

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  2. Joseph Awange

    1. Curtin University, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Spatial Sciences, Bentley, Australia

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  • Written for civil and mine engineers rather than surveyors

  • Presents surveying technologies relevant for civil and mine engineers

  • Includes numerous worked examples and solutions

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Fundamental Surveying

    • John Walker, Joseph Awange
    Pages 17-23

  3. Levelling

    • John Walker, Joseph Awange
    Pages 24-45

  4. Relief and Vertical Sections

    • John Walker, Joseph Awange
    Pages 46-76

  5. Total Station: Measurements and Computations

    • John Walker, Joseph Awange
    Pages 77-99

  6. Traversing

    • John Walker, Joseph Awange
    Pages 100-119

  7. Total Station Differential Levelling

    • John Walker, Joseph Awange
    Pages 120-129

  8. Underground Mining Survey: Transferring Traversing and Levelling Measurements

    • John Walker, Joseph Awange
    Pages 130-158

  9. Strike and Dip to an Embedded Plane

    • John Walker, Joseph Awange
    Pages 159-170

  10. Earthworks on a Sloping Site

    • John Walker, Joseph Awange
    Pages 171-210

  11. Circular Curves

    • John Walker, Joseph Awange
    Pages 211-229

  12. Transition Curves and Superelevation

    • John Walker, Joseph Awange
    Pages 230-259

  13. Calculations of Superelevation on a Composite Curve.

    • John Walker, Joseph Awange
    Pages 260-265

  14. Vertical Curves

    • John Walker, Joseph Awange
    Pages 266-280

  15. Global Navigation Satellite System

    • John Walker, Joseph Awange
    Pages 281-294

  16. Setting Out Of Engineering Structures

    • John Walker, Joseph Awange
    Pages 295-321

  17. Coordinate Transformation And Least Squares Solutions

    • John Walker, Joseph Awange
    Pages 322-362

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 363-427
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About this book

This updated and expanded edition of the book includes four additional chapters on earthwork on sloping sites; transitional curves and super elevation; calculations of super elevations on composite curves; and underground mine surveying. Richly illustrated with diagrams, equations and tables as well as examples of every day survey tasks.

It also covers new topics, such as the global navigation satellite system’s (Real Time Kinematic-RTK), which are increasingly used in a wide range of everyday engineering applications.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Spatial Sciences, Curtin University Spatial Sciences, Bentley, Australia

    John Walker

  • Curtin University, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Spatial Sciences, Bentley, Australia

    Joseph Awange

About the authors

Professor Joseph Awange joined the Department of Spatial Sciences (Curtin University, Australia) in 2006 under a Curtin Research Fellowship and concurrently undertook the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowship at the Geodetic Institute (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) having been awarded the Australian 2008-2011 Ludwig Leichhardt Memorial Fellowship for experienced researchers. In 2015, he won all the three major Fellowship Awards: Alexander von Humboldt (Germany), Japan Society of Promotion of Science (Japan) and Brazil Frontier of Science (Brazil) to carry out research in those countries. At Curtin University, he is currently engaged in teaching and research having attracted more than $1.5M worth of research grants. He obtained his BSc and MSc degrees in Surveying from the University of Nairobi (Kenya), and was also awarded a merit scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD), which facilitated his obtaining a second MSc degree and PhD in Geodesy at Stuttgart University (Germany). In 2002-2004, he was awarded the prestigious Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship to pursue postdoctoral research at Kyoto University (Japan). Prof Awange attained International Editorial role in Springer Earth Science Books and has authored 11 scholarly books with the prestigious Springer publishers and more than 130 peer-reviewed high impact journal publications (in e,g., Remote Sensing of Environment, Journal of Climate, Climatic Change, Advances in Water Resources, International Journal of Climatology, and Journal of Hydrology among others).

John Walker was awarded a B.App.Sc (Surveying and Mapping) in 1988, and a Post-Grad Dip. (Surveying and Mapping) in 1989 by Curtin University.

John had been a casual lecturer and tutor at Curtin since 1998, working in the areas of Aviation (Navigation, Flight Planning,Navigation Aids, and Flight Management); Surveying (Survey Computations, Survey

ing methods, GNSS) and Cartography (Computer Aided Mapping).

He is the continuing author of a first semester course manual in Survey Computations.

He has worked closely with Dr Joseph Awange on the practical portion of a Surveying unit for Civil and Mining Engineers and has collaborated as co-author and editor of this book.

John has extensive experience as an Engineering Surveyor. He is also a commercial pilot in light aircraft and was formerly an Air Traffic Controller with leadership in Operational Control and Aviation Search and Rescue.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Surveying for Civil and Mine Engineers

  • Book Subtitle: Acquire the Skills in Weeks

  • Authors: John Walker, Joseph Awange

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45803-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45802-7Published: 07 June 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45805-8Published: 08 June 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45803-4Published: 06 June 2020

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 411

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Surveying, Architecture, general, Environment, general, Geophysics/Geodesy

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