Construction Measurements (Wiley Series of Practical Construction Guides)

Construction Measurements (Wiley Series of Practical Construction Guides)

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Manufacturer: Wiley-Interscience
Author: B. Austin Barry
Binding: Hardcover
Publication Date: 1988-03
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Label: Wiley-Interscience
Number Of Pages: 368
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Editorial Review:
Errors in Practical Measurement in Science, Engineering, and Technology B. Austin Barry A step-by-step presentation of how random errors occur when taking measurements, how these errors behave, how measurement errors can be used to determine the reliability of the values, and how to accord weights to different measurements of the same quantity. Introduces the concept of percentage compliance with a demand specification, discusses practical plotting of frequency distribution curves, offers tables of areas beneath the normal curve to assist in formulating the validity of measurements, and provides basic information of the probability ellipse for two-dimensional errors. Appendices contain a review and reference of significant figures, complete information for writing a specification for a procedure, suggestions for the use of a Fortran program, and more. 1978 (0 471-03156-9) 183 pp.
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Great and very useful book, lousy "textbook" price

2005-12-11
I own an older edition of this book, and it's very useful and valuable, particularly on the issue of how measurement errors are propagated in a job. Barry spends a lot of time discussing the fundamentals of measurement, calculation of area, distance, tangential and radial curves, and performing checks on your work in the field.

If you're a surveyor, cartographer, or even a GIS specialist, you can learn a lot from this book that you would possibly never learn in any classroom.

I recommend this book highly, but it's very disappointing that it's apparently published by Wiley as a textbook, and for that reason my rating of this edition dropped considerably. The newer edition covers modern measuring technologies such as Electronic Distance Measurement (EDM) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS). Older editions were published with an ordinary cloth hardback binding, and since this is usually good enough for desktop reference or even field use, it's absurd that an updated edition targeted at this audience would be priced at $160.00 US in paperback!

I would strongly suggest looking for a copy in the used market.

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