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Option 4 : Sheepfoot

Type of Compaction Equipment

Suitability

Rammers/Tampers

All types of soils including confined areas such as fills, behind retaining walls, trenches, etc.

Smooth Wheel Rollers

Crushed rocks, gravels, sands.

Pneumatic tyred rollers

Preferred for silts of low plasticity; base, sub-base, and embankment compaction for highways.

Sheepfoot rollers

Clayey soils of moderate plasticity e.g. core of earth dam.

Vibratory rollers

Cohesionless soils at shallow depth.         

Frog hammer

At corners and confined areas

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