M.

DHANESH
CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY B.Arch 5th year

1:TUNNELING AND HANDLING EQUIPMENTS:

A tunnel boring machine(TBM) also known as a "mole",
is a machine used to excavate tunnels with a circular cross
section through a variety of soil and rock strata.
They can bore through anything from hard rock to sand.
Tunnel diameters can range from a meter (done with
micro-TBMs) to 19.25 m to date.
Tunnels of less than a meter or so in diameter are typically
done using trenchless construction methods or horizontal
directional drilling rather than TBMs.

2.CONCRETE MIXERS
A concrete mixer (also commonly called a
cement mixer) is a device that homogeneously
combines cement, aggregate such as sand or
gravel, and water to form concrete.
A typical concrete mixer uses a revolving drum to
mix the components.
For smaller volume works portable concrete
mixers are often used so that the concrete can be
made at the construction site, giving the worker
sample time to use the concrete before it
hardens.
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 Special concrete transport trucks (intransit mixers) are made to
transport and mix concrete up to the construction site.
They can be charged with dry materials and water, with the mixing
occurring during transport.
With this process, the material has already been mixing.
The concrete mixing transport truck maintains the material's liquid
state through agitation, or turning of the drum, until delivery.

3.COMPACTORS
A compactor is a machine or mechanism used to reduce the
size of waste material or soil through compaction.
In construction,
There are three main types of compactor:
The plate compactor, The "Jumping Jack" and The road roller.
The roller type compactors are used for compacting crushed rock as
the base layer underneath concrete or stone foundations or slabs.
The plate compactor has a large vibrating base plate and is
suited for creating a level grade, while the jumping jack
compactor has a smaller foot.
The jumping jack type is mainly used to compact the backfill in
narrow trenches for water or gas supply pipes etc.
Road rollers may also have vibrating rollers.

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3.PAVERS
A paver (paver finisher , asphalt finisher, paving
machine) is an engineering vehicle used to lay asphalt on
roadways.
It is normally fed by a dump truck.
A separate machine, a roller, is then used to press the hot
asphalt mix, resulting a smooth, even surface.
The sub-base being prepared by use of a grader to trim
crushed stone to profile after rolling.

4.SPRAYING AND PLASTERING MACHINES

Plaster spraying allows a plasterer to skim a drywall more than

five times faster than using a hand float to apply it.
Although classic gypsum-based plaster can be sprayed if it is
"spray grade," most plaster sprayers prefer the organic-based
premixed plaster packaged in a plastic bag because the plaster
spraying machine does not need to be cleaned out after the job is
finished, providing that plaster is kept moist.

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Worm-drive pump
Most commonly, sprayers have a worm-drive pump that pumps the
plaster up to a spray gun that has a large nozzle, usually 4 to 8 mm, that
extrudes the plaster into a chamber on the end of the gun
Piston pump
Newer types of plaster sprayer have a piston pump, which has sufficient
pressure to spray smooth (untextured) plaster without compressed air.

5.ROAD ROLLER
A road roller (sometimes called a roller-compactor, or just roller) is
a compactor type engineering vehicle used to compact soil, gravel,
concrete, or asphalt in the construction of roads and foundations,
similar rollers are used also at landfills or in agriculture.

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6.STONE CRUSHERS
A crusher is a machine designed to reduce large rocks into smaller
rocks, gravel, or rock dust.
Crushers may be used to reduce the size, or change the form, of
waste materials so they can be more easily disposed of or recycled,
or to reduce the size of a solid mix of raw materials (as in rock
ore), so that pieces of different composition can be differentiated.

7.SLURRY&HEAVY DUTY PUMPS

A Slurry pump is a type of centrifugal pump in physics principle
that increases the pressure of liquid and solid particle mixture (aka
slurry),through centrifugal force (a rotating impeller) and converts
electrical energy into slurry potential and kinetic energy.
A pump is a device used to move fluids, such as liquids, gases or
slurries. A pump displaces a volume by physical or mechanical
action.

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