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    The document discusses power shovels and factors that affect their productivity. It provides details on optimal cutting depth, productivity factors, angle of swing, and conversion/conditions coefficients. It then gives an example problem calculating expected productivity of a power shovel and number of trucks required based on given specifications of shovel size, soil type, cutting depth, cycle time, angle of swing, and site/management conditions.

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    Power Shovels ‫المجرفة االلية‬

    It is one of the types of equipment that have towers. It is to be used for


    excavating and loading soil into trucks, carts or movable belt in large
    quantities and when it is a relatively large depth of drilling or when the soil
    and gravel is rigid or to be stacked with mud which can not be easily
    excavated by other types of equipment. This machine can excavate and
    load all types of soil except rocks.

    Optimum Depth of Cutting ‫االرتفاع االمثل للحفر‬

    It is the height which refers to the shovel’s highest productivity when to fill
    the backet without any extra power provided by the machine. This height
    changes with the type of the soil and the size of the backet. Table 1 shows
    the optimum depth of cutting and ideal productivity for the mentioned
    shovels and with various types of soil.
    Table 1 - Ideal Productivity for Optimum Cutting depth

    Productivity of Power shovel ‫انتاجية المجرفة االلية‬


    The productivity of any shovel, which is calculated in cubic meters and
    determined of the bank volume within a time scale, depends on the
    following factors:
    1. Class of the material excavated.
    2. Depth of cutting.
    3. Angle of swing.
    4. Job conditions.
    5. Management conditions.
    6. Size of hauling units.
    7. Skill of the operator.
    8. Physical condtions of the shovel.

    Angle of Swing ‫زاوية الدوران‬

    The horizontal angle estimated in degrees between the status of the


    backet while excavating and time during unloading. The total work cycle
    time for the backet includes excavating and swing to the subject of the
    discharge and then discharge and return to the status of excavating.

    Conversion coefficient factor of Table 2. ‫معامل التحويل‬

    Where the percentage of optimum depth = ( real height of cutting \


    optimum depth of cutting in table 1) × 100%

    Conditions coefficient of Table ‫معامل الظروف‬

    The expected productivity of the shovel is calculated by multiplying the


    ideal shovel’s productivity × conversion coefficient factor × conditions
    coefficient.

    Table 2 Conversion coefficient factor


    Table 3 Conditions coefficient

    Ex / At a construction project, a power shovel was used with number of trucks as the following:

    Power shovel Truck

    Size 0.8 m

    Size 4.6m

    Soil type Solid Cycle time 20 min

    Depth of cutting 2.25 m Operation

    Factor
    50 min/hr

    Angle of swing 75

    Site Conditions Medium

    Management Conditions Good

    Find the following:

    1- the expected productivity for the shovel.

    2- the number of trucks required to transfer the soil.

    Solution:

    1)

    From table 1, the optimum depth of cutting = 2.7 m

    So, the ideal productivity = 111 m

    /hr

    The percentage of optimum depth =(2.25/2.7) 100 × % = 83.33%

    From table 2, the conversion coefficient factor = 1.04 (approx.)

    From table 3, Site and Management conditions factor = 0.69

    Then, the expected productivity = 111 × 1.04 × 0.69 = 79.65 m

    /hr

    2)

    Number of work cycles in one hour = 50 /20 = 2.5 cycle

    Productivity of one truck per hour = 2.5 × 4.6 = 11.5 m

    /hr
    The number of trucks required to transfer the soil = 79.65 /11.5= 6.93 = 7

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