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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earthwork-data.html
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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volume-section.html
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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trapezoidal.html
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