ADVANCED CONSTRUCTION

MATERIAL HANDLING
EQUIPMENTS

WHAT IS MATERIAL HANDLING ?

When someone says "Material handling," you have to wonder what they're talking
about. It's a confusing term that says nothing but means a lot. Everyone knows
that every construction project involves some type of material handling function.
On a site prep job you could be moving trash, debris, brush trees, and earth. As the
job progresses you could be installing sewers, roads, parking areas, footings,
foundations, and a host of other utilities.
On building sites it can be steel, concrete panels, windows ... you name it. It's
always a challenge to get the materials to where they are needed when they are
needed. It sounds simple enough but often isn't. Navigating the job site often
poses challenges, let alone trying to run the gauntlet of obstacles that commonly
adorn a typical job at any kind of site.

EQUIPMENTS
Anything that improves the efficiency of our work
Anything that reduces the human effort and helps in increasing the output
Anything that reduces the human labour
All these points together make the definition of equipments.

Concrete Mixer
A concrete mixer (often mistakenly called a
cement mixer) is a device that homogeneously
combines cement, aggregate such as sand or
gravel, and water to form concrete. A typical
concrete mixer uses a revolving drum to mix the
components. For smaller volume works portable
concrete mixers are often used so that the
concrete can be made at the construction site,
giving the workers ample time to use the
concrete before it hardens.
Capacity- 6 cubic feet/batch

In-Transit Concrete Mixer

Special concrete transport trucks (intransit
mixers) are made to transport and mix concrete
up to the construction site. They can be charged
with dry materials and water, with the mixing
occurring during transport.
They can also be loaded from a "central mix" plant,
with this process the material has already been
mixed prior to loading. The concrete mixing
transport truck maintains the material's liquid
state through agitation, or turning of the drum,
until delivery.
Capacity-39 cubic mete/ batch
The interior of the drum on a concrete mixing truck is fitted with a spiral blade. In one
rotational direction, the concrete is pushed deeper into the drum. This is the direction the
drum is rotated while the concrete is being transported to the building site. This is known as
"charging" the mixer. When the drum rotates in the other direction, the Archimedes screwtype arrangement "discharges", or forces the concrete out of the drum. From there it may go
onto chutes to guide the viscous concrete directly to the job site.

Working

Concrete Pump
Concrete pump is a machine used for
transferring liquid concrete by pumping. There are
two types of concrete pumps.
The first type of concrete pump is attached to a truck or
longer units are on semi-trailers. It is known as a boom
concrete pump because it uses a remote-controlled
articulating robotic arm (called a boom) to place
concrete accurately. Boom pumps are used on most of
the larger construction projects as they are capable of
pumping at very high volumes and because of the labour Vertical reach of boom: 41.9 meters.
saving nature of the placing boom. They are a Pumpingrate: 140 cubic meters/hour
revolutionary alternative to truck-mounted concrete Concretepressure: 70 bar).
pumps.
The second main type of concrete pump is either mounted on a truck or placed on a
trailer, and it is commonly referred to as a line pump or trailer-mounted concrete pump.
This pump requires steel or flexible concrete placing hoses to be manually attached to
the outlet of the machine. Those hoses are linked together and lead to wherever the
concrete needs to be placed. Line pumps normally pump concrete at lower volumes than
boom pumps and are used for smaller volume concrete placing applications such as
swimming pools, sidewalks, and single family home concrete slabs and most ground

Truck Mounted
Boom type
Concrete Pump

Truck Mounted
Concrete Pump

Crane
A crane is a type of machine, generally
equipped with a hoist rope, wire ropes or
chains, and sheaves, that can be used both to
lift and lower materials and to move them
horizontally.
It is mainly used for lifting heavy things and
transporting them to other places. It uses one
or more simple machines to create
mechanical advantage and thus move loads
beyond the normal capability of a human.

Types of CRANES
Overhead crane
An overhead crane, also known as a bridge crane, is a type of
crane where the hook-and-line mechanism runs along a
horizontal beam that itself runs along two widely separated rails.
Often it is in a long factory building and runs along rails along
the building's two long walls.
The most common overhead crane use is in the steel industry. At
every step of the manufacturing process, until it leaves a factory as
a finished product, steel is handled by an overhead crane. Raw
materials are poured into a furnace by crane, hot steel is stored for
cooling by an overhead crane, the finished coils are lifted and
loaded onto trucks and trains by overhead crane, and the fabricator
or stamper uses an overhead crane to handle the steel in his
factory.

Mobile Crane
The most basic type of mobile crane
consists of a truss or telescopic
boom mounted on a mobile
platform be it on road, rail or
water. Common terminology is
conventional and hydraulic cranes
respectively.

Truck Crane
A crane mounted on a truck carrier provides
the mobility for this type of crane.
This crane has two parts: the carrier, often
referred to as the Lower, and the lifting
component which includes the boom, referred
to as the Upper. These are mated together
through a turntable, allowing the upper to
swing from side to side. These modern
hydraulic truck cranes are usually singleengine
machines,
with are
the able
same
engineon highways, eliminating the need for
Generally,
these cranes
to travel
powering
the undercarriage
andthe
thecrane
crane.unless weight or other size constrictions are
special equipment
to transport
in place such as local laws. If this is the case, most larger cranes are equipped with
either special trailers to help spread the load over more axles or are able to
disassemble to meet requirements.

Sidelifter crane
A side lifter crane is a road-going
truck or semi-trailer, able to hoist
and
transport
ISO
standard
containers. Container lift is done
with parallel crane-like hoists,
which can lift a container from the
ground or from a railway vehicle.

All-Terrain Crane
A mobile crane with the necessary
equipment to travel at speed on
public roads, and on rough terrain
at the job site using all-wheel and
crab steering. ATs combine the
roadability
of
Truck-mounted
Cranes and the manoeuvrability of
Rough Terrain Cranes.

All Terrain Crane

Rough-Terrain Crane
A crane mounted on an undercarriage with
four rubber tires that is designed for pickand-carry operations and for off-road and
"rough terrain" applications. Outriggers are
used to level and stabilize the crane for
hoisting.

Pick and Carry Crane

A Pick and Carry Crane is similar
to a mobile crane in that is
designed to travel on public
roads, however Pick and Carry
cranes have no stabilizer legs or
outriggers and are designed to lift
the load and carry it to its
destination, within a small radius,
then be able to drive to the next
job.

Carry Deck Crane

A carry deck crane is a small 4 wheel
crane with a 360 degree rotating
boom placed right in the centre and
an operators cab located at one end
under this boom. The rear section
houses the engine and the area
above the wheels is a flat deck.

Telescopic Handler Crane

Telescopic Handlers are like
forklift trucks that have a
telescoping extendable boom
like a crane.

Crawler Crane
A crawler is a crane mounted on an
undercarriage with a set of tracks (also called
crawlers) that provide stability and mobility.
Crawler cranes range in lifting capacity from
about 40 to 3,500 short tons (35.7 to 3,125.0
long tons; 36.3 to 3,175.1t).
Their main advantage is that they can move
around on site and perform each lift with little
set-up, since the crane is stable on its tracks
with no outriggers.
The main disadvantage is that they are very
heavy, and cannot easily be moved from one
job site to another without significant
expense. Typically a large crawler must be
disassembled and moved by trucks, rail cars
or ships to its next location.

Railroad Crane
A railroad crane has flanged wheels for use
on railroads. The simplest form is a crane
mounted on a flatcar. More capable devices
are purpose-built. Different types of crane are
used for maintenance work, recovery
operations and freight loading in goods yards
and scrap handling facilities.

Floating Crane
Floating cranes are used mainly in
bridge building and port construction,
but they are also used for occasional
loading and unloading of especially
heavy or awkward loads on and off
ships.

Truck-Mounted Articulating Cranes (Loader Crane)

A loader crane (also called a knuckleboom crane or articulating crane) is a
hydraulically powered articulated arm
fitted to a truck or trailer, and is used for
loading/unloading the vehicle. The
numerous jointed sections can be folded
into a small space when the crane is not
in use.
One or more of the sections may be
telescopic. Often the crane will have a
degree of automation and be able to
unload or stow itself without an
operator's instruction.

Tower Crane
A tower crane is usually assembled by
a telescopic jib (mobile) crane of
greater reach (also see "self-erecting
crane" below) and in the case of
tower cranes that have risen while
constructing very tall skyscrapers, a
smaller crane (or derrick) will often be
lifted to the roof of the completed
tower to dismantle the tower crane
afterwards, which may be more
Tower
caninstallation.
often be Pedestrian
difficultCranes
than the
Operated by a remote control,
removing the need for a cab for the
Crane Operator to work from.

Aerial Crane
Aerial crane or 'Sky cranes' usually are
helicopters designed to lift large loads.
Helicopters are able to travel to and lift in areas
that are difficult to reach by conventional
cranes. Helicopter cranes are most commonly
used to lift units/loads onto shopping centers
and highrises. They can lift anything within
their lifting capacity, (cars, boats, swimming
pools, etc.).
They also perform disaster relief after natural
disasters for clean-up, and during wild-fires
they are able to carry huge buckets of water to
extinguish fires.

Primary Crushers
A crusher is a machine
designed to reduce large rocks
into smaller rocks, gravel, or
rock dust.
Crushers may be used to reduce
the size, or change the form, of
waste materials so they can be
more easily disposed of or
recycled, or to reduce the size of
a solid mix of raw materials (as
in rock ore), so that pieces of
different composition can be

Mobile Crusher
A crusher which
can
be
moved
from place to place
is called a mobile
crusher.

Forklift
A forklift (also called a lift truck, a
fork truck, or a forklift truck) is a
powered industrial truck used to lift
and move materials short distances.
Another critical characteristic of the
forklift is its instability. The forklift and
load must be considered a unit with a
continually varying center of gravity
with every movement of the load. A
forklift must never negotiate a turn at
speed with a raised load, where
centrifugal and gravitational forces
may combine to cause a disastrous
tip-over accident.

Conveyor
A conveyor system is a common piece of
mechanical handling equipment that moves
materials from one location to another.
Conveyors are especially useful in applications
involving the transportation of heavy or bulky
materials.
Conveyor systems allow quick and efficient
transportation for a wide variety of materials,
which make them very popular in the material
handling and packaging industries.

Aerial Work Platform

An aerial work platform (AWP), also known as
an aerial device, elevating work platform
(EWP), or mobile elevating work platform
(MEWP) They are generally used for temporary,
flexible access purposes such as maintenance and
construction work or by firefighters for emergency
access, which distinguishes them from permanent
access equipment such as elevators.
They are designed to lift limited weights usually
less than a ton, although some have a higher safe
working load (SWL)distinguishing them from most
types of cranes. They are usually capable of being
set up and operated by a single person. is a
mechanical device used to provide temporary
access for people or equipment to inaccessible
areas, usually at height. There are distinct types of

Scissor Lift
A scissor lift is a type of platform that can
usually only move vertically. The mechanism to
achieve this is the use of linked, folding supports
in a criss-cross "X" pattern, known as a
pantograph (or scissor mechanism).
The upward motion is achieved by the
application of pressure to the outside of the
lowest set of supports, elongating the
crossing pattern, and propelling the work
platform vertically. The platform may also
have an extending "bridge" to allow closer
access to the work area, because of the
inherent
limits of of
vertical-only
The contraction
the scissormovement.
action can be hydraulic, pneumatic or
mechanical (via a leadscrew or rack and pinion system).

Waste Handler
Waste Handler has earned a
reputation
for
best-in-class
versatility,
productivity
and
resale value. Landfill customers
choose the D8T WH because it
excels at multiple tasks from
pushing trash and spreading
cover to cell construction and
closing.

Demolition Robots
These
remote-controlled
demolition
robot
with
a
telescopic arm, extending the
reach for a flexible set-up.
Despite its low weight and
compactness it delivers a power
of 22 kW, making it ideal for
efficient demolition in tough
environments.
The outriggers are individually
controlled, and combined with a
large footprint, provide superior
stability, which enables high

Manufacturers Of Material
Handling Equipments
1. Caterpillar (U.S.)
2. Komatsu (Japan)
3. Volvo Construction Equipment (Sweden)
4. Hitachi Construction Machinery (Japan)
5. Liebherr (Germany)

Advantages:
Increase the rate of output through work progress with the best
effective and efficient methods.
Reduce the overall construction costs especially for large contracts.
Carry out activities which cannot be done manually or to do them
more economically and much faster.
Eliminate the heavy manual work by human thus reducing fatigue
and eliminates various other hazards and health issues.
Maintain the planned rate of production where there is a shortage
of skilled or unskilled labor.
Maintain the high quality standards often required by present-day
design and specifications (technical standards).

Disadvantages
Additional capital cost is involved
Material handling system requires maintenance
Additional change in the material leads to elasticity
Failure of the material leads to the downtime in the
system.

Some Safety Measures to take

care of
Safety is always a primary consideration when operating equipment. With
material handling equipment the safety aspects are more important, because once
the load is up and in the air, any mishap will mean the load is coming down ... in
some cases in a controlled descent, in other cases outside of all control. The
results can be catastrophic.
Pre-start inspections are critical and should never be glossed over: no short cuts!
Walk-arounds should be performed with the same level of seriousness that you
want a pilot to use on your 17-hour overseas flight. On all equipment the formula
is simple: follow the manufacturer's recommended checklist. Look for cracks;
missing or loose parts; fluid leaks; missing, cracked or cloudy mirrors; broken,
missing or burned out lights; cracked windshields; bad wiper blades ... in short,
anything that could interfere with the safe, smooth operation of the machine.
There are no short cuts!

 Check tire air pressure on rubber-tired machines. Be sure that all tires are properly
inflated for the application. Make sure the tires are in good no, make that excellent
condition.
Check the operating functions of all systems before moving the machine.
Don't give the material handling jobs to the newest man. It takes experience and knowhow to manage and handle a load, not matter what it is. Make certain the operator
knows the machine, how it operates, its lifting or handling characteristics and its
capacity limitation.
Never exceed manufacturer's load limits.
It's too easy to make mistakes when moving around the job site. It's always better to be
overly cautious than even a little careless.
And don't forget to check the weather. High winds, lightning, sleet, rain, snow, and fog
can all take a normally safe job site and turn it into a hazardous work zone.
Remember that wearing proper apparel is as important as every other aspect of the job:
hard hats, safety shoes, safety glasses when called for, gloves if necessary, and safety
harness when and where required. This isn't the full list of safety gear you might need or
use on the job; that will vary from job to job. If you're in doubt about what's required,
check with the jobsite safety director.

Thank you
Presentation byManvendra s rawat
M azhar khan
Namun Mishra
Subhanshu Mamgain
Dikhsha
Parul
Vipul
Anmol
Sanjay
Aishwarya Nigam