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In this chapter the most common classes of machinery found on construction sites will be presented. For the purpose of this chapter the authors focus on construction machinery and equipment applications in the building and public utility sectors of the construction industry. The classes of machinery and equipment for earth, concreting, assembly, and finishing works described in this chapter are used not only in these two construction industries, but also in road, bridge, and railway building; pile, tunnel, and water foundation; the opening of mines; the building of natural gas and petroleum pipelines; sewerage systems; cooling towers for the power industry; and other industrial building structures.

One should note that specialized equipment ensuring the efficiency, high quality, and safety of work during the realization of structures is used in almost all these kinds of construction. Even a brief description of this equipment would require a separate publication. For example, in road building alone 63 types of machines (see the draft International Standard ISO/FDIS 22242) are used. In the final part of this chapter the state of automation and robotization of construction machinery is presented.

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Abbreviations

ACCS:

automatic cutter control system

ASC:

automatic stability control

CAN:

controller area network

CRT:

cathode ray tube

DfC:

design for construction

DfRC:

design for robotic construction

EPDM:

ethylene propylene diene monomer

ERP:

enterprise resource planning

GPS:

global positioning system

IAARC:

International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction

ISARC:

International Symposia on Automation and Robotics in Construction

ISO:

International Standards Organization

IT:

information technology

LPG:

petroleum gas

PC:

personal computer

PC:

polycrystalline

PC:

pulverized coal

PLC:

programmable logic controller

PLS:

pre-lining support

PVC:

polyvinyl chloride

RAP:

reclaimed asphalt pavements

SMART:

Shimizu manufacturing system by advanced robotics technology

US:

ultrasonic

W/C:

water/cement

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  1. Institute of Mechanized Construction and Rock Mining, Racjonalizacji 6/8, 02-673, Warsaw, Poland

    Eugeniusz Budny Prof.

  2. IMBiGS – Institute for Mechanized Construction and Rock Mining (IMBiGS), ul. Racjonalizacji 6/8, 02-673, Warsaw, Poland

    Mirosław Chłosta Dr.

  3. Berlin Institute of Technology Konstruktion von Maschinensystemen, Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 144, 10623, Berlin, Germany

    Henning Jürgen Meyer Prof.

  4. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, 1188 Glenn L. Martin Hall, 20742-3021, College Park, MD, USA

    Mirosław J. Skibniewski Prof.

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Budny, E., Chłosta, M., Meyer, H.J., Skibniewski, M.J. (2009). Construction Machinery. In: Grote, KH., Antonsson, E. (eds) Springer Handbook of Mechanical Engineering. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30738-9_14

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