Assignment For Construction Management

Submitted by –
Kartik Chavan
BE2 B-Batch
Roll No - 401228
 CONTENTS
1. Introduction
2. Road Rollers work application
3. Types of Road Rollers
4. Variations and Features
 1.Introduction
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.
In some parts of the world, road rollers are still known
colloquially as steam rollers, regardless of their method of
propulsion. This typically only applies to the largest examples
(used for road-making).
 2.Road Rollers Work
Application
Road rollers use the weight of the vehicle to compress the
surface being rolled (static) or use mechanical advantage
(vibrating). Initial compaction of the substrate on a road project is
done using a padfoot drum roller, which achieves higher
compaction density due to the pads having less surface area. On
large freeways a four wheel compactor with padfoot drum and a
blade, such as a Caterpillar 815/825 series machine, would be
used due to its high weight, speed and the powerful pushing
force to spread bulk material. On regional roads a smaller single
padfoot drum machine may be used.
Once the road base is compacted, the smooth single drum
compactor is no longer used on the road surface (There is
however an exception, if the single drum has special flat-wide-
base tyres on the machine). The final wear course of asphalt
concrete (a.k.a. asphalt or blacktop in North America, or
macadam in England) is laid using a paver and compacted using
a tandem smooth drum roller, a three-point roller or a pneumatic
tyre roller. Three point rollers on asphalt were very common once
and are still used, but tandem vibrating rollers are the usual
choice now, with the pneumatic tyre roller's kneading action
being the last roller to seal off the surface
3. Types of Road Rollers
Type 1 :: Ride-on smooth finish
•Tandem drum (static)
•Tandem drum (vibrating)
•Single drum roller (smooth)
•Pneumatic-tyre, a.k.a. rubber tyre or multi-wheel
•Combination roller (single row of tyres and a steel drum)
•Three point roller (steam rollers are usually three-point)

Ride-on with articulating-swivel (small machine)

Type 2 :: Ride-on soil/landfill compactor with pads/feet/spikes
•Single drum roller (soil)
•4-wheel (soil/landfill)
•3-point (soil/landfill)
•Tandem drum (soil/landfill)

Corinsa TC-100 Vibratory tandem Roller

 4.Variations and Features
On some machines, the drums may be filled with water on site to
achieve the desired weight. When empty, the lighter machine is
easier and cheaper to transport between work sites. On
pneumatic tyre rollers the body may be ballasted with water or
sand, or for extra compaction wet sand is used. Modern tyre
rollers may be filled with steel ballast, which gives a more even
balance for better compaction.
Additional compaction may be achieved by vibrating the roller
drums, allowing a small, light machine perform as well as a much
heavier one. Vibration is typically produced by a free-spinning
hydrostatic motor inside the drum to whose shaft an eccentric
weight has been attached. Some rollers have a second weight that
can be rotated relative to the main weight, to adjust the vibration
amplitude and thus the compacting force.
Water lubrication may be provided to the drum surface from on-
board "sprinkler tanks" to prevent hot asphalt sticking to the
drum.

Corinsa CCR 14.21B Tyre Roller

Hydraulic transmissions permit greater design flexibility. While
early examples used direct mechanical drives, hydraulics reduce
the number of moving parts exposed to contamination and
allows the drum to be driven, providing extra traction on
inclines.
Human-propelled rollers may only have a single roller drum.
Self-propelled rollers may have two drums, mounted one in front
of the other (format known as "duplex"), or three rolls, or just one,
with the back rollers replaced with treaded pneumatic tyres for
increased traction.

Pneumatic roller