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1. Types of Soil Compaction
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Equipment
2. Light Soil Compaction
Equipment
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2.2. Vibratory Tampers
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Compactors
3. Heavy Soil Compaction
Equipment
3.1. Smooth Wheel Rollers
3.2. Sheep Foot Rollers
3.3. Elephant Foot Roller
3.4. Pneumatic Tired Rollers
3.5. Wobble Wheel Roller
3.6. Impact Roller
3.7. Grid Rollers
3.8. Pad Foot/Slash Presser
Rollers
4. Selection Guide of The
Equipment
4.1. Scale of The
Construction Project
4.2. Type of Compacted
Material
5. Di erent Types of On Field
Soil Compaction Test
6. Buying or Renting Soil
Compaction Equipment

Types of Soil Compaction

Equipment

The compaction equipment for soil can be categorized in two

type based on their mass.

light soil compaction equipment

heavy soil compaction equipment

We will explore further each of this type of equipment and the

type of machines which fall under these two categories in
following sections.

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Light Soil Compaction Equipment

These types of equipment are used particularly for compacting

small areas, which require less compaction e ort (force).
Following equipment fall under the category of Light
compaction equipment.

Rammers
vibratory tampers
vibratory plate compactors

Rammers

Rammer are machine powered and hand steered small

machines used for compacting small areas by providing an
impact to the soil. Rammers are lighter in weight so that they
can be handled by single person.

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The base size of the rammers is usually smaller of area ranging

from 15 x 15 cm2 to 20 x 20 cm2. Usually, their weights are in
the range of 30 kgs to 10 tons.

In case of rock compaction, these rammers can weigh up to two

or three tons and can fall freely from the heights of 1 or 2 m to
crush the rock underneath them.

Rammers are particularly suitable for compacting cohesive soils

like clays located in small areas like trenches and building
foundations.

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Vibratory Tampers

The base plate installed on vibratory tampers is spring activated

by an alternative mechanism driven by a motor.
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Vibratory tampers are also ideal to be used in smaller areas in

con ned zones. They can even be used to compact all types of
soils using the vibrations.

They are usually manually guided like rammers and weigh

between 50 and 100 kgs.

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Vibratory Plate Compactors

Vibratory plate compactors are particularly used on course soils

like sand containing four to eight percent ne particles like clay.

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In contrast to rammers, which compact soil by producing an

impact, vibratory plate compactors compact the soil by
producing vibrations.

Weight of these machines can range between 100 kgs and 2

tons. The plate areas are also bigger in contrast to rammers,
with areas ranging from 0.16 to 1.6 square meters.

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Heavy Soil Compaction Equipment

These types of equipment are used particularly for compacting

larger areas with di erent types of soils, which may require less
or large compaction e ort (force).

Heavy compaction equipment is selected based on the amount

of moisture content in soil and type of soil. 1

Following equipment fall under the category of Heavy

compaction equipment.
 Smooth wheels rollers
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Pneumatic tired rollers
Wobble wheel roller
Impact roller
Grid rolls
Pad foot/ presser rollers

Smooth Wheel Rollers

These types of rollers apply static compression on the soil

underneath their rolls. These machines are triple wheeled
vehicles. Front wheel is made of one large drum, while on the
rear side there are two large drum wheels.

The static compression is applied through these drum shaped

wheels. These machines are used with granular soils. Most
commonly they are used in compacting the base course of
roads and paving highways and air elds.

These machines are propelled by a diesel engine. The weights of

the drum wheels can be altered by adding ballast or other
heavy materials inside the drums.

Their weight can range from 10 to 200 kg per drum. As a result,

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the pressure exerted by them is in the order of 300 N, which of
course can be varied by adding more ballast into the drums.
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The sheep foot roller is also a vehicle similar to smooth wheel

rollers. However, in contrast to a smooth drum used in smooth
wheel rollers, these machines have a sheep’s foot or tamping
roller in front. While on the rear side, they have tyres.

Sheep’s foot or tamping roller consists of a hollow steel

cylindrical drum made with steel projections or feet extending
in a radial direction on front. These projections of feet are
extended outward from the cylinder surface.

The dimension of the roller can be varied to get di erent soil

compaction capacities. These dimensions include the diameter
and width of the drum and length and shape of the feet of the
rollers. Usually, the feet are 15 to 20 cm long and placed in
staggered row around the drum. This allows to obtain a contact
of about two tamping feet per square foot of tamped area. The
weight of the drums can also be varied in a way similar to
smooth wheel rollers.

Sheep foot rollers are particularly suitable for cohesive soils.

This is due to smaller width of loaded areas under their feet.
Sometimes sheep foot rollers are also employed in pre
compaction phase on the areas with slabby soil fragments of
rock soils. The break down these soft rock fragments. They are
also used to pulverize hard dry soil and can also help in mixing
of soils.

Sometimes, these rollers are also towed by a tractor. This also

allows a compaction through vibration. Especially in sandy soils,
mixing large quantities of water and using a towing tractor will
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couple the bene ts of vibrations to achieve much better
compaction.
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A sheep foot roller is sometimes also termed as elephant foot

roller, if the some of the feet are removed from the drum and
are replaced with 20 to 25 cm wide at plated welded on the
remaining feet of the drum.

Elephant rollers are useful for silty soils of low cohesion. This is
due to the increased widths of the loaded area, that produces
greater con nement.

Pneumatic Tired Rollers

Pneumatic tired rollers consist of a platform mounted on two

axles. The rear axle has one more wheel compare with the front
axle. The total width of all the in ated tyres is approximately
equal to 80% width of the rollers.

They are not commonly used on soils. Instead, there best use
can be found in the area where the surface to be rolled is not
rough or steep like the asphalt of the roads.

The pneumatic tired roller is ideal for compaction of cohesion-

less or slightly cohesive soils. These soils include gravels, sands,
clayey sands, silty sands and even sandy clays. The pressure
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applied by them is distributed over relatively larger areas, which
prevents the soil from collapsing.
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Wobble wheel roller are similar to pneumatic tired rollers

except that their wheels are mounted at a slight angle with
respect to their axle. This also allows to achieve slight kneading
action.

Impact Roller

In impact rollers, a tractor pulls a prism shaped mass, made of

steel or concrete. As a result of rotation of prism shaped mass,
an impact is generated, which transfers su cient energy to
achieve medium compaction to a depth of several meters.

This type of roller can be used for granular soils including

gravels and rock lls.

Grid Rollers

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These rollers are made of cylindrical surfaces of steel grid

formed by a network of steel bars. The grid is made of square
holes. The weight of the grid can be achieved by adding ballast
into the cylinder. Usually, their weight ranges from 5.5 tons to
15 tons with ballast added.

Grid rollers are used for compacting weathered rocks and thick
soils. On the other hand, they are not suitable clayey soils, silty
soils and uniform soils. They are mainly used in subbase
construction in roads projects.

Pad Foot/Slash Presser Rollers

The roller is similar to sheep foot roller. However, they have lugs
on their cylinders, which have larger area than the feet of sheep
foot rollers.
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They are also sometimes termed as tamping rollers having

static weight in the range of 15 to 40 tons. They can achieve
more degree of compaction than sheep foot rollers. They also
operate on high speeds and can break down large lumps of soil.
They are best suitable for compacting cohesive soils.
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Selection Guide of The Equipment

Scale of The Construction Project

Large scale projects involving larger areas to be

compacted e.g., road projects, embankments, dams –>
Heavy soil compaction equipment
Small scale projects involving smaller, con ned areas to
be compacted e.g., trenches, building foundations, farms,
fencing –> Small soil compaction equipment

Type of Compacted Material

Cohesive soils

Clays:

Rammers
Vibratory plate compactors
Sheep foot rollers
Wobble wheel roller
Pneumatic tired rollers
Pad foot/slash presser rollers

Silty soils:

Elephant foot roller

Grid rollers

Granular soils

Sand:

Vibratory tamper
Smooth wheel rollers

Rocks:
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Vibratory tamper
Sheep foot rollers
Impact rollers
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Pneumatic tired rollers

Di erent Types of On Field Soil

Compaction Test

Soil compactions test at construction sites can be monitored

through following tests

Standard proctor test

Sand cone test
Rubber balloon test
Nuclear Density Test

Buying or Renting Soil

Compaction Equipment

Buying or renting equipment depend on certain factors. They

include:

Cost of equipment
Maintenance cost of equipment
Storage cost
Insurance premiums
Duration of the project
Rent vs cost comparison of equipment.

Usually, contractor have to keep in mind all these factors before

choosing between renting or buying the right type of
compaction equipment

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Dare August 16, 2021 at 3:18 am - Reply

Very nice machine I need rammer

Shuanglong Machinery August 16, 2021 at 4:33 am - Reply

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