IC Rollers: Outsmarting Soil and Asphalt

摘要

To illustrate the intelligent-compaction (IC) roller's potential to increase production, Kevin Garcia-road and paving construction segment manager for Trimble Navigation-relates an experiment Trimble conducted when testing one of its IC systems: "On a highway paving job, we covered the monitor for the roller's IC system, then asked a seasoned operator to go about his job. He covered 316,000 square feet in 21 hours and made from two to 13 passes over any given area. With the cover removed, and using the system's pass-counting function, the operator covered 380,000 square feet in 18 hours. The paver stopped only once for the roller to catch up, but had to stop four times when the monitor was covered."