CE 49800 Chapter 8-9: Chapter summaries

• School: Purdue University
• Department: Civil Engineering
• Course: CE 49800
• Professor: Robert Jacko

Document Summary

Chapter 8 discusses about the legend abbreviations and notes. A legend is needed to define graphical symbols and graphical notations in drawings. Symbols are used to represent certain features on the drawings. Hatching is a two-dimensional pattern that is used to represent different materials. Each set of design drawings contains a number of special notations that are unique for that project, depending on the imagination and creativity of the designer. Abbreviations are used in drawings to shorten drawing callouts on plans, sections, and details, and to facilitate ease of reading the callouts. The chapter also discusses about notes and where they should be used like to provide extra clarification to a drawing detail or to identify the basis or source of a design data or detail. The most interesting aspect of this chapter was the hatching patterns and details. I knew what hat(cid:272)hing was (cid:271)ut didn t know what different hat(cid:272)hing was used for different materials.