Jordan University of Science and Technology Faculty of

Engineering
Department of Civil Engineering

• course Name and Number:

Surveying laboratory, CE343

• Experiment name and number:

Experiment #3: Chain Surveying Project.

• student name: oday ahmed alrifaie

• student number: 143497
• section number: 1
• Group number: 4
• instructor: Nisreen AL Daoud

 Submission date: 18-Nov-2021

1. Summery:
our goal in this experiment is to learn
how to use chain surveing and we use these
way of surveying on small plane areas with
very few details If carefully done, and how
to drow blueprint for the design of
construction of what is on paper, by using a
specific scale to more
accurately illustrate the real dimensions.

2. Objectives:
There are many objectives but the main
one of this project is
1-To obtain a horizontal plan of a building by
chain surveying.
2- Drawing the horizontal plan on A3 paper
with scale 1:100
3. Apparatus:

In this experiment we use 4 tools :

1. The woven and steel tape : It is used to

measure horizontal, vertical, and slope
distances.

2. The Prism square: Used for placing points on

a line, offset measurements, setting our
curves or determining horizontal plans.

3. The ranging rod: used to locate points

locations in the field.

4. The Plumb bob: used to establish a vertical

line.
1- The woven and steel tape. 2-The Prism square.

3-The ranging rod. 4- The Plumb bob.

4. Procedure:
1- First we draw a line "traverse line" down the length of the
basin 20 meters so that it emerges from the basin about a
meter from each side and puts us 2 Range rod on each side .
and divided this line into several sections, so that the length of
each section is 4 m .
2- We have identified the corner and features ( d1 & d2 & d3 &
d4 & d5 & d6 & d7 & d8 & d9 ) that we want to drop on the
base line for drawing on the paper, using "the pair of ties
method" & " The offset method " .

3- We put Range rod at the point d1 . so that we see the 3

Range rod Using prismatic square device . To ensure that the
vertical distance on the line, And then measured the vertical
distance between point d1 and line using tape . "Here we
used The offset method".

4- We used "the pair of ties method" at points d3 & d4 & d5 &

d5 & d6 to be surveyed. by taking two distances between point
d1 and two different points on "traverse line" , And the same
way at the points d4 & d5 & d5 & d6, And as we did previously
we measure these distances using the tape.

5- We took the real measurements of the basin using the tape (

L1 & L2 & L3 & L4 & L5 ).
5. Test Results:

Side Length (m) Length (m) % error

length Measured by tape Measured from the
(true) sketch
L1
12.6 12.55 0.396%
L2
5.10 5.15 0.980% 6. A
L3
2.42 2.5 3.305% n
L4 a
16.17 16.1 0.432%
L5
l
6.02 6 0.332% y
sis and Discussion:

Through the previous results, we can

discuss some of the points that we
reached during the experiment:
1) The method of intersection depends
on the measurement of two angles,
horizontal and vertical
2) We noticed measurement errors due
to several reasons, including:
Not reading the tape carefully
An error may occur when dropping,
as one or both of the points may not fall
accurately.
When drawing dimensions on the
paper, an error may occur in the
calculations
3) Measurement errors can be avoided
with high concentration and correct and
accurate calculations, while verifying
their validity again by recalculating the
calculations, and the numbers must be
equal to or close to the true value in
order to avoid fatal errors in the
measurement.
4) All the corners of the building are
located with reference to the traverse
lines in the four sides using any of four
basic methods (pair of ties
method, offset method, polar method,
and intersection method).
7. Conclusions:
We included after this experiment:
We were able to conclude some
things alter doing this experiment.,
including:
■ The pair of ties method depends on
taking the measurement of two
distances from the point to be
surveyed to a traverse line (baseline).
■ The offset method is based on
taking a perpendicular distance from
the point to the survey line (base
line).
■Through this experience, we learn
how to transfer designs to paper.
■The polar method depends on
taking the measurement of a distance
from the point and the angle with
reference to a traverse line (base
line).
■ We learned how to use prismatic
square to determine a vertical point
on the baseline and continue
between two points .

8. Appendix

 and we measured the Percent Error in this way:

|12.55−12.6
12.6 |×100=0.396 %
|5.15−5.1
5.1 |
×100=0.980 %

|2.5−2.42
2.42 |
×100=3.305 %

|16.1−16.17
16.17 |
×100=0.432 %

|6−6.02
6.02 |
×100=0.332 %