Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Planning for Earthwork Construction
3. Equipment Cost
4. Geotechnical Materials, Compaction, and Stabilization
5. Machine Power
6. Dozers
7. Scrapers
8. Excavators
9. Finishing Equipment
10. Trucks and Hauling Equipment
11. Compressed Air
12. Drilling Rock and Earth
13. Blasting Rock
14. Aggregate Production
15. Asphalt Mix Production and Placement
16. Concrete Equipment
17. Cranes
18. Draglines and Clamshells
19. Piles and Pile-Driving Equipment
20. Equipment for Pumping Water

Appendix A- Alphabetical List of Units with Their SI Names and Conversion Factors
Appendix B- Selected English-to-SI Conversion Factors
Appendix C- Selected U.S. Customary (English) Unit Equivalents
Appendix D- Selected Metric Unit Equivalents

Index

  


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