Earthwork are all construction measures, with which soil is diminished and moved or with those buildings with earth as building material is built.

The actual loam construction is generally not ranked thereby however among the earthwork.

The earthwork work (work in the earth) covers the release, a digging, a promoting, an inserting and a consolidating of soil and loose rock in the context of the foundation engineering. In addition belong:

• Soil erosion, earth mass movement, soil backfillings, replenishments and fills, building of building races, soil excavation for ditches, excavators over and under water, foundation excavation, production of excavations for building etc.

Earthwork is a component of carcassings.

Purpose and a goal of the construction measures in the earthwork are building constructions like among other things:

• Road construction, canal construction, embankment construction, dumps, seals, earth covers, horticulture, noise protection barriers.

Dams are typical earth structures. It necessarily for traffic routes such as channels, roads, railways, also for water retaining structures and Deponien.Auch planing and consolidating large surfaces for example for airports ranks among Erdbau.Ein further purpose can also the supply of sand, gravel or surface soil be or the disposal of soil masses.

Earthwork is implemented crawler-type vehicles (dozers) with earthworking machines such as excavators, Scrapern, graders, and loaders, but partly also in manual work with Pickeln, shovels and spades.

The computations (stability proofs), necessary for earth structures, belong to the geotechnical technical disciplines earth statics, foundation engineering and soil mechanics. Operate basic research also the geosciences, in particular engineering geology and Bodenkunde. The planning of earthwork measures and the construction machine employment are task of building process engineering (building enterprise).

For the determination of the theoretical bases of the soil characteristics building ground laboratories and earthwork laboratories serve.

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