Government incentives, spurred by climate change fears, will likely nudge you toward reduced tillage programs and cover crops in the near future. On-farm tests conducted by Farm Journal field ...

Dynamic compaction is a soil improvement technique which involves the repeated application of an impact load to a contact area of the soil surface induced by heavy weights. Experimental measurements ...

Hydraulic filling is an important construction method for land reclamation. However, the stability and material properties of reclaimed lands are affected by factors such as the filled material, ...

In March, Volvo Construction Equipment launched its first offering in intelligent compaction (IC) for select asphalt compactor models. Its base Volvo IC system provides pass mapping and temperature ...

“Even though the compaction of soil is a process [that] began hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago,” Luke Sevcik product application and training specialist for Wacker Neuson, guesstimates, “the ...

Regardless of how much experience an equipment operator has, it is difficult to achieve uniform compaction over a sizable area without the help of technology. Without technology, equipment operators ...