Highway Construction Equipment
This article is about highway and transport engineering, this time we talk about the Highway Construction Equipment
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Crawler Tractor
Various pushing/pulling operations such as push loading scrappers
Bulldozer units
Ripping and loosening of rocky earth in preparation for excavation; earthmoving operations for short distances, especially in rough, rocky ground and one steep slopes ; tree removal
Rubber tired tractor scrapper units
Earthmoving operations, digging, loading, transporting, dumping and spreading earth material
Farm tractor with front end loader
Miscellaneous operations associated with earthwork, such as filling trenches, excavation in limited areas and cleaning up along aggregate stockpiles
Shovel
Excavation at or above existing ground level in firm or hard material, e.g., excavating material from cut slope
Backhoe
Excavation bellow existing ground in firm or hard material, as in digging trenches
Crane with clamshell
Placing and handling aggregates at a stockpile; dredging operations
Crane with dragline
Excavation in soft materials at or below existing ground level
Crane with hook block
Lifting various heavy objects
Trucks and wagons
Various hauling operations
Motor grader
Shaping of subgrades, shoulders, ditches, and backslopes; maintenance of construction roads
Steel wheeled roller, vibratory compactor
Compaction of gravels and gravel sand mixtures
Pneumatic tired roller
Compaction of wide range of soils of low to moderate plasticity including silty gravels, sands, silty sands, and clayey sands
Sheep’s foot roller
Compaction of soils of moderate to high plasticity including silts, clays, clayey sands, silt clay mixtures, clayey gravels, and silty gravels
(source: Wright, P.H, with contributions by James S. Lai, Peter S.Parsonson, Michael Meyer., Highway Engineering, 6th edition ,John Wiley & Sons, Inc.New York, 1996.)
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Crawler Tractor
Various pushing/pulling operations such as push loading scrappers
Bulldozer units
Ripping and loosening of rocky earth in preparation for excavation; earthmoving operations for short distances, especially in rough, rocky ground and one steep slopes ; tree removal
Rubber tired tractor scrapper units
Earthmoving operations, digging, loading, transporting, dumping and spreading earth material
Farm tractor with front end loader
Miscellaneous operations associated with earthwork, such as filling trenches, excavation in limited areas and cleaning up along aggregate stockpiles
Shovel
Excavation at or above existing ground level in firm or hard material, e.g., excavating material from cut slope
Backhoe
Excavation bellow existing ground in firm or hard material, as in digging trenches
Crane with clamshell
Placing and handling aggregates at a stockpile; dredging operations
Crane with dragline
Excavation in soft materials at or below existing ground level
Crane with hook block
Lifting various heavy objects
Trucks and wagons
Various hauling operations
Motor grader
Shaping of subgrades, shoulders, ditches, and backslopes; maintenance of construction roads
Steel wheeled roller, vibratory compactor
Compaction of gravels and gravel sand mixtures
Pneumatic tired roller
Compaction of wide range of soils of low to moderate plasticity including silty gravels, sands, silty sands, and clayey sands
Sheep’s foot roller
Compaction of soils of moderate to high plasticity including silts, clays, clayey sands, silt clay mixtures, clayey gravels, and silty gravels
(source: Wright, P.H, with contributions by James S. Lai, Peter S.Parsonson, Michael Meyer., Highway Engineering, 6th edition ,John Wiley & Sons, Inc.New York, 1996.)
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