The most-common approach to compaction, but not necessarily the best, is a rolling train, which involves a series of rollers operating one after the other close behind the paver. The train starts with ...

Often, one of the last and most critical steps in building roads is when compactors roll down that last mile. Accurate compaction can be overlooked in the rush to finish that last pass before the ...

The Cat 815 soil compactor features technology upgrades to help increase productivity and efficiency, so more area is compacted in less time on large earthworks projects, the company says. New machine ...

The length of the compactor drum is not the true measure of the productive capacity of a compactor. Volvo Construction Equipment’s experts say that effective drum width (EDW) is the most important ...

Compaction equipment manufacturer Bomag GmbH & Co. in Germany used FEA software to analyze and optimize the polygonal rollers on the company's recently developed earth compactors. Compaction equipment ...