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Related processes such as lifting, placement, transportation, embankment construction are termed as ABC techniques. [4] Notable rapid bridge replacement projects include Interstate 93 in Massachusetts, where 14 bridges were replaced over 10 weekends in 2011. [5]
An embankment is a raised wall, bank or mound made of earth or stones, that are used to hold back water or carry a roadway. A road , railway line , or canal is normally raised onto an embankment made of compacted soil (typically clay or rock-based) to avoid a change in level required by the terrain , the alternatives being either to have an ...
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Section through railway track and foundation showing the sub-grade. Grading in civil engineering and landscape architectural construction is the work of ensuring a level base, or one with a specified slope, [1] for a construction work such as a foundation, the base course for a road or a railway, or landscape and garden improvements, or surface drainage.
The superstructure of Kurobe Dam in Japan rests on opposing concrete abutments Abutment for a large steel arch bridge Brick abutment supporting disused tramway over the Yass River in Yass, New South Wales Cream-colored concrete abutment gives vertical support to both the small iron rail bridge and earthen fill of the bridge approach embankment at Old Town Station Staten Island Railway - Staten ...
A flood embankment is traditionally an earth wall used to shore up flood waters. Most flood embankments are between 1 metre and 3 metres high. A 5-metre-high (16 ft) flood embankment is rare.
Cuts are typically used in road, rail, and canal construction to reduce a route's length and grade. Cut and fill construction uses the spoils from cuts to fill in defiles to create straight routes at steady grades cost-effectively. Cuts are used as alternatives to indirect routes, embankments, or viaducts.
The Pequest Fill is a three-mile (4.8 km) railroad embankment in northwestern New Jersey built by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad as part of the Lackawanna Cut-Off. At its completion in 1911, it was touted as the largest fill and the highest embankment ever built for a railroad. [1] [2] [3]