Civil engineering

Civil engineering

The branch of engineering concerned with the design, construction, and maintenance of such public works roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings.

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backhoe

Engineering; Civil engineering

An excavating machine or digger consisting of a digging bucket on the end of a two-part articulated arm chiefly used for trenching and pit-like excavations. Also called a rear actor or back actor, ...

asphaltic concrete paving

Engineering; Civil engineering

Commonly called asphalt paving or beck-top, it is a construction method by which the mixture of asphalt and aggregate (sand and crushed rock or gravel) is spread while hot onto a prepared surface and ...

asphalt batch plant

Engineering; Civil engineering

A central mixing and manufacturing plant for preparing asphaltic concrete paving for delivery to job sites. At the plant, drying, screening, storing, and mixing operations are performed to dry, ...

areaway

Engineering; Civil engineering

A means of providing light, ventilation, or access to a basement or cellar by an earth-retaining, pit-like recess, out and around a below-ground window or doorway.

arrested crushing

Engineering; Civil engineering

Rock crushing in gyratory or jaw crushers in which rocks are crushed by the equipment jaws instead of breaking each other in a choked crushing. In arrest crushing, the machine's crushing surfaces ...

autogeneous healing

Engineering; Civil engineering

The natural closing and disappearance of cracks that can occur in concrete with the presence of moisture, and the absence of tensile stress. The repair is by a combination of mechanical blocking by ...