TYPES OF CHAIN FOR SURVEY WORK AND CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDENTS
TYPES OF CHAIN
S.No. | Type of chain | Length | No. of links | Length of links |
1 | Meter Chain | 20 m or 30 m | 100 or 150 | 20 cm |
2 | Engineering Chain | 100 ft | 100 | 1 ft |
3 | Gunter Chain | 66 ft | 100 | 0.66 ft |
4 | Revenue Chain | 33 ft | 16 | ft |
(As 1 foot = 0.3048 m)
66 feet = 0.3048 × 66 m = 20.11 m
Gunter’s chain is 20.12 m long.
Other Important Topic Related to Surveying in Civil engineering