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Earthworks are engineering works created through the processing of parts of the earth's surface involving quantities of soil or unformed rock.


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Types of excavation

Excavation may be classified by type of material:

  • Topsoil excavation
  • Earth excavation
  • Rock excavation
  • Muck excavation - this usually contains excess water and unsuitable soil
  • Unclassified excavation - this is any combination of material types

Excavation may be classified by the purpose:

  • Stripping
  • Roadway excavation
  • Drainage or structure excavation
  • Bridge excavation
  • Channel excavation
  • Footing excavation
  • Borrow excavation
  • Dredge excavation
  • Underground excavation

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Civil engineering use

Typical earthworks include roads, railway beds, causeways, dams, levees, canals, and berms. Other common earthworks are land grading to reconfigure the topography of a site, or to stabilize slopes.


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Military use

In military engineering, earthworks are, more specifically, types of fortifications constructed from soil. Although soil is not very strong, it is cheap enough that huge quantities can be used, generating formidable structures. Examples of older earthwork fortifications include moats, sod walls, motte-and-bailey castles, and hill forts. Modern examples include trenches and berms.


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Equipment

Heavy construction equipment is usually used due to the amounts of material to be moved -- up to millions of cubic metres. Earthwork construction was revolutionized by the development of the (Fresno) scraper and other earth-moving machines such as the loader, the dump truck, the grader, the bulldozer, the backhoe, and the dragline excavator.


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Mass haul planning

Engineers need to concern themselves with issues of geotechnical engineering (such as soil density and strength) and with quantity estimation to ensure that soil volumes in the cuts match those of the fills, while minimizing the distance of movement. In the past, these calculations were done by hand using a slide rule and with methods such as Simpson's rule. Earthworks cost is a function of hauled amount x hauled distance. The goal of mass haul planning is to determine these amounts and the goal of mass haul optimization is to minimize either or both.

Now they can be performed with a computer and specialized software, including optimisation on haul cost and not haul distance (as haul cost is not proportional to haul distance).


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See also

  • Contour trenching
  • Cut and fill
  • Earth movers, construction/engineering vehicles used for earthworks civil engineering
  • Earth structure
  • Gabion
  • Keyline design
  • Land restoration
  • Spoil tip
  • Terrace (agriculture)

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References


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External links

  • Finding Volume of Earthwork using Simpson's Rule

Source of the article : Wikipedia

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