Samara University
Construction Technology And Management
Construction Equipment and plant management (COTM 3161)
by Mohammed Abdu
CHAPTER-1
INTRODUCTION
1. Introduction
1.1. General
Today contractors undertake many types of construction activities
that require different types, sizes, amount and groupings of the
4M’s (Materials, Money, Man power and Machineries who are
usually recognized resources in any Construction sector)
Construction Equipment's and other construction plants are among
the very essential and crucial resources for our construction sector
to be successful.
There is a piece of equipment for practically any work activity like
earth moving,
moving excavating and lifting from very large to small work
activities.
The dependency and need for heavy construction equipment have
grown with the size and complexity of construction projects.
The development of automated heavy construction equipment for
earthmoving, excavating, and lifting occurred in the last two
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1. 1. General
Level of equipment use by type of construction
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1.3. Properties of Soil
A) Excavation Types
Common Excavation:
Excavation refers to ordinary earth excavation.
Rock Excavation:
Excavation rock excavation cannot be done by ordinary earth
handling equipment.
Rock materials must be removed by drilling and blasting or by
some other methods.
This normally results in a considerably greater expense than
earth excavation.
Muck Excavation:
Excavation includes materials that will decay or produce
subsidence in embankments.
It is usually a soft organic material having a high water content.
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Muck Excavation:
Excavation
Typically, it would include such things as decaying stumps,
roots, logs, and humus.
These materials are hard to handle and can present special
construction problems both at their point of excavation, and in
transportation and disposal.
Unclassified Excavation:
Excavation refers to the materials that cannot be
defined as soil or rock.
The removal of common excavation will not require the use of
explosives, although tractors equipped with rippers may be used
to loosen consolidated formations.
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B) General Soil Characteristics
As earth moving equipments are mostly related to woks related to
soil, important aspects of soil shall be reviewed.
From the characteristics of soils trafficability,
trafficability loadability and volume
change are vital for earth works. Accordingly,
Trafficability - property that shows the ability of soil to support
repeated traffic loading
Loadability - property that tells the ease or difficulty of excavating
and loading
Soil Volume Change - property that is related with volumes of soil
samples on different stress or compaction levels.
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C) Soil Volume Change Characteristics
There are three principal conditions or states in which soil may exist:
bank,
bank loose,
loose and compacted.
compacted The meanings of these terms are as
follows:
Bank State - This is the state when the material is in its natural state
i.e. before disturbance. Often referred to as “in – place’’ or “in situ.’’
Unit - Bank cubic meter [Bm3]
Loose State - This is the state after the material is excavated or
disturbed.
Unit - Loose cubic meter [Lm3]
Compacted State - This is the state after the material is compacted.
Unit- Compact cubic meter [Cm3].
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C) Soil Volume Change Characteristics
Bank Unit (Bm3) Loose cubic meter [Lm3] Compact cubic meter [Cm3].
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C) Soil Volume Change Characteristics
Relationship between the three states
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C) Soil Volume Change Characteristics
Load and Shrinkage Factors:
In performing earthmoving calculations, it is important to
convert all material volumes’ to common unit of measure.
Bank cubic meter is most commonly used
Pay load is the volume unit specified as the basis for payment
in an earth moving contract.
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C) Soil Volume Change Characteristics
Swell values for different class of earth
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