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PRONUNCIATION OF ROADHEADER

roadheader  [ˈrəʊdˌhedə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ROADHEADER

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Roadheader is a noun.
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WHAT DOES ROADHEADER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

roadheader

Roadheader

A roadheader, also called a boom-type roadheader, road header machine, road header or just header machine, is a piece of excavating equipment consisting of a boom-mounted cutting head, a loading device usually involving a conveyor, and a crawler travelling track to move the entire machine forward into the rock face. The cutting head can be a general purpose rotating drum mounted in line or perpendicular to the boom, or can be special function heads such as jack-hammer like spikes, compression fracture micro-wheel heads like those on larger tunnel boring machines, a slicer head like a gigantic chain saw for dicing up rock, or simple jaw-like buckets of traditional excavators.

Definition of roadheader in the English dictionary

The definition of roadheader in the dictionary is a piece of tunnelling equipment with a conveyor and a cutter.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ROADHEADER


bobsledder
ˈbɒbˌsledə
deader
ˈdedə
dreader
ˈdredə
Enzedder
ˌenˈzedə
muckspreader
ˈmʌkˌspredə
shredder
ˈʃredə
sledder
ˈsledə
treader
ˈtredə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ROADHEADER

road transport
road user
road-fund licence
road-test
road-trials
roadability
roadbed
roadblock
roadcraft
roadeo
roadhog
roadholding
roadhouse
roadie
roading
roadkill
roadless
roadmaking
roadman
roadmen

WORDS THAT END LIKE ROADHEADER

beader
card reader
cheerleader
e-reader
floor leader
follow-the-leader
header
kneader
leader
loader
market leader
newsreader
palm reader
party leader
project leader
reader
Scout Leader
spreader
squadron leader
team leader
world leader

Synonyms and antonyms of roadheader in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «roadheader» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ROADHEADER

Find out the translation of roadheader to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of roadheader from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «roadheader» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

掘进机
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

rozadora
570 millions of speakers

English

roadheader
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

roadheader
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

roadheader
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

проходческий комбайн
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Roadheader
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

roadheader
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

roadheader
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Roadheader
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Teilschnittmaschine
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

roadheader
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

roadheader
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Roadheader
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

combai
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

roadheader
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

रोडहेडर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Roadheader
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

roadheader
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kombajn
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прохідницький комбайн
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

roadheader
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

roadheader
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

roadheader
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

roadheader
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Produktgrupper
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of roadheader

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ROADHEADER»

The term «roadheader» is normally little used and occupies the 125.511 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about roadheader

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ROADHEADER»

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2011 Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference Proceedings
The limitations of the roadheader included: □ High operating cost associated with high pick consumption rates and supplemental mechanical material when very hard rock was encountered; □ Limited reach required an initial (partial) mining ...
Steve Redmond, Victor Romero, 2011
2
Surface and Underground Excavations: Methods, Techniques and ...
Excavation with short advanced roof section using Roadheader (AMT70) Figure 10.1 1 Application of roadheader AMT 70 with NATM. are recommended. In addition to the cutter boom attachment, the excavator is also equipped with a loading ...
Ratan Raj Tatiya, 2005
3
ENGINEERING IN ROCKS FOR SLOPES, FOUNDATIONS AND TUNNELS
But in mid-1990s, a tunnel by roadheader was excavated to carry a gas pipeline and a sewage line at Anjar in Gujarat. Recently, one roadheader has been brought to the rail-tunnelling site in Katra–Qazigund section in the state of Jammu and ...
T. RAMAMURTHY, 2014
4
2009 Rapid Excavation and Tunneling Conference Proceedings
An AM50 roadheader was selected to excavate the softer portions of the tunnel. Due to the potential for naturally occurring asbestos and silica dust, the roadheader excavation crew wore half-face respirators and the heading was kept damp by ...
Gary Almeraris, Bill Mariucci, 2009
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Intelligent Robotics and Applications: First International ...
First International Conference, ICIRA 2008 Wuhan, China, October 15-17, 2008 Proceedings Caihua Xiong, Yongan Huang, Youlun Xiong. Modeling, Analysis and Control for a Robotic Roadheader Junli Li, Yuanzong Li, and Zisheng Lian ...
Caihua Xiong, Yongan Huang, Youlun Xiong, 2008
6
Practical Tunnel Construction
Advantages of Roadheader Roadheaders offer certain advantages over TBMs and drill blast methods. Unlike TBMs, roadheaders can mine any face configuration. They can also be selective in the mining. For example, in mining applications ...
Gary B. Hemphill, 2012
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Civil Excavations and Tunnelling: A Practical Guide
7.1. NATM. case. studies. 7.1.1 NATM at Frankfurt Metro A typical excavation procedure, as shown in Fig. 7.4, was followed for the Frankfurt Metro Tunnel.1'16 7.1.2 NATM with roadheader In Table 7.1, Sandtner and Gehring12 outlined to ...
Ratan Tatiya, 2005
8
Shotcrete: More Engineering Developments: Proceedings of the ...
Many of the issues with regard to over- break by drill and blast means were overcome by using the roadheader. The only issue encountered in this case, was the slope of the drive and traction difficulties. Minor fractures have formed in a ...
Erik Stefan Bernard, 2004
9
Handbook of Tunnel Engineering I: Structures and Methods
Special construction processes can be used when the roadheader is operated in combination with backup equipment like conveyor belts or suspension conveyors . Also worth mentioning is the use of a “second working level” to simplify and ...
Bernhard Maidl, Markus Thewes, Ulrich Maidl, 2013
10
The Sand Compaction Pile Method
However, the excavation of Kiiciiksu tunnel with a shielded roadheader of 90 kW of cutter power, showed that an instantaneous cutting rate of 5 m3/h is possible to obtain in high strength rock formation having compressive strength values of ...
Masaki Kitazume, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ROADHEADER»

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Mining machines, meet rock out during first year of LRT tunnel work
Late last week, Chewrocka, the roadheader machine that started digging at Queen and Kent streets, broke through rock to the tunnel carved out by Jawbreaker ... «Ottawa Sun, Nov 14»
2
Premier walks LRT tunnel under Ottawa
The group walked to the end of the excavation, 441 metres, to where the roadheader Jawbreaker had started carving out the cavern for Lyon station. It's there ... «Ottawa Sun, Aug 14»
3
Roadheaders claw away at downtown LRT tunnel, now roughly 30 …
The work is being done by three 135-tonne “roadheaders” named Jawbreaker, Chewrocka and Crocodile Rouge, which have been tasked with eating away at ... «Ottawa Citizen, Jul 14»
4
Under downtown streets: 19 new photos of LRT construction
West portal. Roadheader looking west - WP shows excavated material in loading device (part of the roadheader) "Construction of the Light Rail Transit tunnel ... «Ottawa Citizen, Jun 14»
5
Yeraltı dünyasının robotları
Bunun için 'Roadheader' adındaki galeri açma makineleri devreye giriyor. Madenin en derinine kadar inmeyi başarabilen bu araçtan sonra 'shearer' (kesici) ... «Radikal, May 14»
6
Massive sinkhole halts Ottawa LRT tunnelling
Around 10 p.m. Thursday a crew was excavating using the Crocodile Rouge roadheader machine when a worker noticed dirt was spilling down from above. «Ottawa Sun, Feb 14»
7
Road collapse leaves 8-metre wide sinkhole at tunnelling site
A digging crew in the tunnel first noticed dirt falling into the tunnel at about 10 p.m. ET Thursday, where the excavator — a roadheader called Crocodile Rouge ... «CBC.ca, Feb 14»
8
LRT tunnel a football field deep so far
The 135-tonne Roadheader machine, one of three named by Grade 4 students, started mining rock at the construction site in early November. The large west ... «Ottawa Sun, Jan 14»
9
WDS wins massive Eagle Downs coal contract
The drifts drivage will be completed using two 300kW roadheaders specifically engineering for the contract, as well as onboard roof-bolting and shotcrete tunnel ... «Australian Mining, Dec 13»
10
City of Ottawa launches contest to name LRT tunnelling machines
The Roadheader machines are each 135 tonnes and 20 metres long. The cutterhead has rock-ripping "pics" and about 50,000 pics will be needed to build the ... «Ottawa Sun, Oct 13»

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