Everything on earth moving , cut and fill

ENGINEERING FUNDAMENTALS OF
EARTHMOVING
• Construction Process – Material Handling Problem
• Many factors affect the cost of handling soil.
• Two primary material considerations:
– Total quantity of material
– Size of individual pieces
• Quantity of material to be handled and time
constraints – influence the selection of equipment as
to the type, size and number of machines.
• Larger units
– Generally lower unit-production costs
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Engineering higher
Fundamentals mobilization and fixed costs
of Earthmoving

, Sizes

Quantity




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Engineering Fundamentals of Earthmoving

, ENGINEERING FUNDAMENTALS OF MOVING EARTH


• Designer's primary concern - how well the
material will perform structurally.
• Contractor - how the material will be handled
during construction process and what volume or
quantity of material is to be processed.




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Engineering Fundamentals of Earthmoving

, Geotechnical Materials

• Used for:
– To support structures – static load
– To support highway and runway pavements –
dynamic loads
– In dams and levees – a impoundments to resist
passage of water
• May be suitable in natural state or may have
to be excavated, processed and compacted
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Engineering Fundamentals of Earthmoving