Volume Calculation that adopted to find earthwork quantities for

various civil engineering projects like:

• Road Work
• Irrigation Canal project
• Tank Survey
• Earth Moving
• And etc.
Earthworks - created through the moving and/or processing of
massive quantities of soil or unformed rock.

Cutting - The process of excavating earth material from a work

location to achieve the desired topography.

Filling - the process of moving the excavated material or additional

earth material to a work location to achieve the desired topography.
Typically, earthwork is done in the following projects:

• Road works
• Railways
• Irrigation project such as canals and dams
• Other common earthwork applications are land grading to
reconfigure the topography of a site, or to stabilize slopes
There are four popular methods of earthwork calculation:

• Section method
• Average method
• Division by Square method
• Contour method
• Preparing for Earthwork Calculation
• Finding the grid Levels
• Interpolating the Available Elevations at the Grid Points
▫ Weighted average
▫ Triangulation

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Four different Volume calculation methods should be in practice

• Section Method
• Average method
• Division of Square method
• Contour Method
For calculating the volume, always two sets of surface data are
required.
• Initial Level: Original Ground Level (OGL) (survey data)
• Final Level: Proposed/Designed Level (estimate) or Formation
Level (survey data)

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In trapezoidal method, each segment of the section is divided into various
trapezoids and triangles.

• Trapezoidal Area A = 1/2 X a X (b1+b2)

• Triangle area A = a * b/2

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