Easy Rules for the Measurement of Earthworks: By Means of the Prismoidal FormulaT.R. Gallender & Company, 1872 - 189 pages |
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altitude apply Arithmetical Mean base Borden calculations centre hight centre line Chapter common length correct cross section cubature Cubic Feet cubic yards Deduct Grade Prism diagram diedral angle dimensions distance apart sections double area earthwork solid end areas engineer equalizing line Equivalent Level Hights example feet in length figure frustum Geom Geometrical Mean gives gonals grade triangle ground line ground surface Hight of Back hights and widths horizontal Hutton's General Rule Hutton's Rule illustration initial prismoids intersection of slopes irregular John Macneill KLMN method of computation mid-section multiplied odd numbers parallel plane Pris Prismoid of Earthwork Prismoidal Formula Prismoidal Mean Area Pyramid rectangles rectangular prismoid regular stations Rhomboidal Wedge right section road-bed Roots and Squares side-slopes Simpson's Rule square roots Squares of Sums superposed wedge suppose Surf.-slope Table Tabulated tion trapezium trapezoidal triangular prismoids usually vertical volume Wedge and Prism
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Page 1 - Wood-Cuts, Problems, and Examples, and concluded by an Extensive Table for finding the Solidity in cubic yards from Mean Areas. The whole being adapted for convenient use by Engineers, Surveyors, Contractors, and others needing Correct Measurements of Earthwork.
Page 12 - RULE.* To the sum of the areas of the two ends add four times the area of a section parallel to and equally distant from both ends, and this last sum multiplied by £ of the height will give the solidity.