Bucket chain excavator

The role of geotechnics in surface mining operations and post-mining site development

Published in R. N. Chowdhury, Geomechanics and Water Engineering in Environmental Management, 2017

In surface mining operations working methods are divided into two groups, namely continuous and discontinuous methods. The continuous method is presented by multi-bucket excavators i.e. bucket wheel and bucket chain excavators, whilst discontinuous methods utilise draglines, shovels, wheel loaders, scrapers, rippers and bulldozers.

Whole-body vibration exposure on earthmoving equipment operators in construction industries

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Published in Cogent Engineering, 2018

B.O. Akinnuli, O.A. Dahunsi, S.P. Ayodeji, O.P. Bodunde

EME as classified by Yamazaki Construction Company (2003) includes scrapers, dozers, heavy haul trucks, backhoes, graders, pail loaders, etc. These equipment are used to perform tasks such as excavating, earthmoving and paving on the construction sites. Others are equipment such as plough attached to a tractor on the agricultural sites and equipment such as haulage trucks, scissors lift, tunnelling equipment, bucket chain excavator, bucket wheel excavator and gyratory equipment on the mining sites.

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