CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT

Unit 5
21 CE 204 T
 Unit 5 CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT --- SYLLAB
Selection of equipment for earth work
Earth moving operations
Types of earthwork equipment
tractors, motor graders, scrapers, front end waders, earth movers
Equipment for foundation and pile driving
Equipment for compaction, batching, mixing and concreting
Equipment for material handling and erection of structures
types of cranes
Equipment for dredging, trenching, tunneling
 Book Referred
Construction Planning,Equipment & Methods

4th Edition

• Robert L. Peurifoy
&
• William B. Ledbetter
• McGraw – Hill Book Company
Web Sites Referred
 Tasks in Earthwork
Clearing Scrapping Cutting Excavating

Shoveling Digging Dozing Lifting

Loading Leading Hauling Dragging

Grading Drilling Filling BORING

Stabilisation Compaction TUNNELING PILING

RIPPING BLASTING TRENCHING

( for Rocks )
 A Short List of
Earthwork Equipment
Tractors Wheel Back Hoes Power
Loaders Shovels
Excavators Motor Rollers Dump
Graders Trucks
Scrapers Bull Dozers Draglines Clamshells
 Task wise Classification of
Earthwork Equipment
CLEARING CUTTING EXCAVATION

SHOVELING DIGGING DOZING

LEADING
LOADING
LIFTING

HAULING DRAGGING
GRADING

COMPACTION
CLEARING
EXCAVATION
POWER SHOVELS
 EXCAVATORS

               
SCRAPERS
GRADERS
DOZERS
 ROLLERS Tandem Vibratory Roller

 
Vibratory Roller
                                                                               

Static Roller Static Roller

SHEEP FOOT
ROLLERS

 
WHEEL LOADERS / FRONT END LOADERS
BACK HOES
DRAG LINES

                                
CLAMSHELLS
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Assorted Earthwork Equipment

Name each equipment