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AKOKA, YABA
FIGURES/LAYOUTS USED IN
TRIANGULATION
LEVEL: 300
- Triangle
3) Braced quadrilaterals
3) Braced Quadrilaterals
A triangulation system consisting of figures containing four corner stations and
observed diagonals shown below in a diagram known as a layout of braced
quadrilaterals. In fact, braced quadrilaterals consist of overlapping triangles. This
system is treated to be the strongest and the best arrangement of triangles, and
it provides a means of computing the lengths of the sides using different
combinations of sides and angles. Most of the triangulation systems use this
method.
Braced quadrilaterals
This layout in a triangulation system is generally used when vast area in all
directions is required to be covered. The centred figures generally are
quadrilaterals, pentagons, or hexagons with central stations. Though this system
provides check on the accuracy of the work, generally it is not as strong as the
braced quadrilateral arrangement. Moreover, the progress of work is quite slow
due to the fact that more settings of the instrument are required.
a) Simple Quadrilateral:
The simple quadrilateral is the best figure, and it should be employed
wherever possible. It combines maximum strength and progress with a
minimum of essential geometrical conditions when approximately equilateral
or square and therefore the square quadrilateral is the perfect figure. It has a
strength factor.
b) Four-sided central point-figure with one diagonal:
When one diagonal of the quadrilateral is obscured, a central point, which
is visible from the four corners, can be inserted. This figure requires the
solution of two side equations and five angle equations, and hence adds to
the labour of adjusting. Its strength factor is 0.56.