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✔ Tunnel engineering is a crucial field that involves complex and challenging tasks throughout its course, but it is also very engaging. Tunnels are built underground using specialized equipment that minimizes disturbance to the surface above. Although tunnel construction is typically challenging, it can save time and provide greater convenience in many cases.
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1. Tunnel Making Tools List
Names | Images | Uses |
1. Roadheader | Used for excavating rock in mining and civil construction projects. | |
2. Drilling Jumbo | Used in underground mining. | |
3. Air Ventilator | Used for providing oxygen inside the tunnel. | |
4. Crawler Haggloader | Used in the excavating of tunnels and materials handling. | |
5. Wheel Loader | Used for lifting almost anything, such as debris, gravel, soil, dirt, pallets, etc. | |
6. Dumper | Used to transport materials to and from a construction site. | |
7. Breaker | Used for breaking hard stones, rocks, and hard strata. | |
8. Telehandler | Used to carry and place heavy materials. | |
9. Batching Plant | Used for preparing large quantities of concrete. | |
10. Transit-Mixer | Used to transport concrete from a concrete batching plant to the site. | |
11. Shotcrete Machine | Used to line tunnel walls, mines, subways, and automobile tunnels. | |
12. MAI Pump | Used for mixing cement primarily for grouting when drilling MAI anchors. | |
13. Crawler Excavator | Used for digging trenches, holes, and foundations, as well as for handling materials, moving earth, demolition, dredging, etc. | |
14. Total Station | Used to measure distances, angles, and coordinates for accurate mapping, alignment, and construction control. | |
15. Crusher Plant | Used to reduce the size of rocks, stones, and ore. | |
16. Tunnel Boring Machines ( TBMs) | Used to excavate tunnels. |
17. Chain Trencher | Used to dig trenches using a chain with digging teeth. | |
18. Wheel Trencher | Uses a rotating wheel with digging teeth for trenching. | |
19. Backhoe Excavator | Used for digging and trenching. | |
20. Earth Auger | Used to drill holes in the ground. | |
21. Shovel | Helpful in moving loose material. | |
22. Pickaxe | Used for breaking up hard soil or rock. | |
23. Ditch Witch | Used for digging narrow trenches. | |
24. Suction Excavator | Uses suction to remove loose soil or debris without damaging underground utilities. | |
25. Safety Barriers and Cones | Used to mark the boundaries of the excavation site and enhance safety. | |
26. Demolition Hammer | Breaks up concrete and hard surfaces during excavation. | |
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Verified Article By Er. Madhu Krishna Poudel |