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Earth structure – Building or other structure made largely from soil. Gabion – Cage full of rock. Keyline design – Landscaping to optimize water usage. Land restoration – Reinstatement of damaged landscape. Grading (earthworks) – In civil engineering, creating a profile. Spoil tip – Pile built of accumulated spoil.
Heavy equipment, heavy machinery, earthmovers, construction vehicles, or construction equipment, refers to heavy-duty vehicles specially designed to execute construction tasks, most frequently involving earthwork operations or other large construction tasks. Heavy equipment usually comprises five equipment systems: the implement, traction ...
The 1962 "Sedan" plowshares shot displaced 12 million tons of earth and created a crater 320 feet (98 m) deep and 1,280 feet (390 m) wide. Project Plowshare was the overall United States program for the development of techniques to use nuclear explosives for peaceful construction purposes. The program was organized in June 1957 as part of the ...
Dragline excavator. Built by Bucyrus-Erie in 1969, Big Muskie was the world's largest ever dragline, being 487 ft (148 m) in length, weighing some 13,500 short tons (12,247 t), and hoisting a 220 cu yd (168.2 m 3) bucket that could move 325 short tons (295 t) of material at a pass. A dragline excavator is a heavy-duty excavator used in civil ...
Description. Suction excavation utilizes high-powered fans to safely excavate up to 141 feet (43 meters) of depth depending on the configuration. First, a small surface area hole of about 10 inches (250 mm) is created. Then, the suction excavator hose removes materials below the surface. Compressed air is used to fracture the ground for the ...
Cut (earthworks) Road cutting. In civil engineering, a cut or cutting is where soil or rock from a relative rise along a route is removed. The term is also used in river management to speed a waterway's flow by short-cutting a meander . Cuts are typically used in road, rail, and canal construction to reduce the length and grade of a route.
Digging, also referred to as excavation, is the process of using some implement such as claws, hands, manual tools or heavy equipment, to remove material from a solid surface, usually soil, sand or rock on the surface of Earth. Digging is actually the combination of two processes, the first being the breaking or cutting of the surface, and the ...
Archaeological excavation. In archaeology, excavation is the exposure, processing and recording of archaeological remains. [1] An excavation site or "dig" is the area being studied. These locations range from one to several areas at a time during a project and can be conducted over a few weeks to several years.