Construction Equipment And Its Management

This book fulfills the practice needs of those who are faced with many problems of constructing large scale project and contains many photographs to understand the equipment easily. The book is divided in two parts : first part - Construction Equipment, covers earth moving equipment, sholves and cranes, compaction equipment, motor graders, stone crushing planths, asphlt mixing plants, asphalt laying plants, on-highway and off-highway dump trucks, concreting equipment, materal handling, pneumatic, bridge construcion pumping and dewatering equipments : whereas second part of the book.

3. COMPACTION-EQUIPMENT

4. GRADING EQUIPMENT

5. AGGREGATE PRODUCTION, SCREENING AND MIXING

6. ASPHALT MIXING PLANTS

7. ASPHALT LAYING EQUIPMENT

8. HAULING EQUIPMENT

9. CONCRETING EQUIPMENT

10. MATERIALS HANDLING DEVICES

11. AIR COMPRESSORS AND PNEUMATIC EQUIPMENT

12. PILES AND PILES DRIVING EQUIPMENT

13. DRILLING AND BLASTING EQUIPMENT

14. TUNNELLING EQUIPMENT

15. PUMPING AND DEWATERING EQUIPMENT

16. IMPORTANT MECHANICAL FEATURES

PART-II EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT

17. TYRES

18. EQUIPMENT MANAGEMENT IN CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS

19. ECONOMICS OF CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT

20. EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE

21. POLLUTION WITH CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT

22. MATERIALS MANAGEMENT AND IMPORTATION OF EQUIPMENT

IMPORTATION OF EQUIPMENT

23. SAFETY AND INSURANCE

24. OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

25. PROJECT PLANNING (PROCTOLOGY)

26. CONTRACT MANAGEMENT

27. PROJECT PLANNING AND SCHEDULING

28. APPLICATION OF NETWORK TECHNIQUE

APPENDIX-I - Norms of Output

APPENDIX-II - Conversion of Units

APPENDIX-III - Economical Life Equipment

APPENDIX-IV - Trouble Shooting

APPENDIX-V - Weight of Materials

APPENDIX-VI - Technical Data of Largest Dozer

APPENDIX-VII - Technical Data for Excavator

INDEX