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Interior Angle Method of Traverse

The document summarizes a surveying experiment using a total station to measure horizontal angles and distances to establish a five-sided traverse. Key steps included setting up the total station at corner points A through E, measuring distances and angles between stations, computing interior angles, and adjusting for any angular misclosure using the correction value. The total of the observed interior angles was 3°20'29" less than the expected sum of 540° for a five-sided polygon. The interior angles were successfully corrected using a closed traverse adjustment method.

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Interior Angle Method of Traverse

The document summarizes a surveying experiment using a total station to measure horizontal angles and distances to establish a five-sided traverse. Key steps included setting up the total station at corner points A through E, measuring distances and angles between stations, computing interior angles, and adjusting for any angular misclosure using the correction value. The total of the observed interior angles was 3°20'29" less than the expected sum of 540° for a five-sided polygon. The interior angles were successfully corrected using a closed traverse adjustment method.

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SURVEYING 1 (FIELD)

Introduction

Interior angle method of traverse requires a theodolite or a total station to measure the

horizontal angles of successive stations. In our experiment, we chose to use the total station. A

total station is an electric theodolite (transit) integrated with an electronic distance measurement

or EDM to determine the slope distances from the instrument to a certain station/point (from

civilsimplified.com).

Materials

Total Station Prism

Tripod Chaining Pins


Plumb bob Tape

Procedures

The first thing to do is to establish the corners of the traverse (5 or 6 corners). Label the corners

A, B, C, and etc. then use chaining pins to mark it. Set-up the instrument at point A and get the

horizontal distance and azimuth of the line between A and its adjacent corners. Repeat the

procedures for all of the established corners. Then compute for the interior angles.

Body

OBSERVED INTERIOR ADJUSTED INT


STA DISTANCE ANGLE CORR ANGLE

AB 14.97 119°46'4" 0.6683 120°26'9.8"

BC 20.0055 95°9'37" 0.6683 95°49'42.8"

CD 13.968 113°4'52" 0.6683 113°44'57.8"

DE 17.0075 116°54'37" 0.6683 117°34'42.8"

EA 20.3355 91°44'21" 0.6683 92°24'26.8"

SOLUTION:
sum of interior angles = (n-2) *180

= (5-2) *180

= 540

misclosure = 540° - 536°39'31"

= 3°20'29"

correction = misclosure/n

= 3°20'29" / 5

= 0°40'5.8"

adjusted int angle = observed int angle + corr

Data Analysis

To get the sum of the interior angles of a polygon use the formula (n-2)*120 where n=

number of sides. Misclosure is computed by getting the difference of the sum of the interior

angles and sum of the observed interior angle. Then get the correction by dividing the misclosure

to the number of sides. After getting the correction the adjusted int angle can be computed.

Conclusion

Since the closed traverse formed is a 5-sided polygon, or pentagon, the sum of all interior

angles must be 540°. The gathered and computed sum of interior angles from the field work was

536°39'31", giving us the angular misclosure of 3°20'29". The discrepancies in the data may
came from the instrumental errors, personal errors, and natural errors during the execution of the

experiment in the field. The interior angles are corrected, considering the angle of misclosure,

using the closed traverse adjustment method and finally achieving the required sum, which is

540°.

In order to have less errors in this fieldwork, the instrument should be properly levelled,

the 50-m tape should not sag, as much as possible, and the surveyors should read the

measurements in the total stations and tape accurately and precisely.

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