Crawler dozers can be equipped with a ripper that loosens or fragments soil or rock by pulling ripper shanks through the material. The ripability of material depends on its compressive strength, fractures, brittleness, and weathering, with glacial tills, shales, sandstones, and coals usually rippable and massive formations usually not rippable. Rippability can be estimated through seismography testing, where lower seismic wave velocity in poorly consolidated materials indicates easier ripability than tightly compacted rock with higher velocity.
Crawler dozers can be equipped with a ripper that loosens or fragments soil or rock by pulling ripper shanks through the material. The ripability of material depends on its compressive strength, fractures, brittleness, and weathering, with glacial tills, shales, sandstones, and coals usually rippable and massive formations usually not rippable. Rippability can be estimated through seismography testing, where lower seismic wave velocity in poorly consolidated materials indicates easier ripability than tightly compacted rock with higher velocity.
Crawler dozers can be equipped with a ripper that loosens or fragments soil or rock by pulling ripper shanks through the material. The ripability of material depends on its compressive strength, fractures, brittleness, and weathering, with glacial tills, shales, sandstones, and coals usually rippable and massive formations usually not rippable. Rippability can be estimated through seismography testing, where lower seismic wave velocity in poorly consolidated materials indicates easier ripability than tightly compacted rock with higher velocity.
Crawler dozers can be equipped with a ripper that loosens or fragments soil or rock by pulling ripper shanks through the material. The ripability of material depends on its compressive strength, fractures, brittleness, and weathering, with glacial tills, shales, sandstones, and coals usually rippable and massive formations usually not rippable. Rippability can be estimated through seismography testing, where lower seismic wave velocity in poorly consolidated materials indicates easier ripability than tightly compacted rock with higher velocity.
Crawler dozers can be equipped with a ripper mounted on the rear of the tractor. The ripper shank(s) is pulled through soil or rock to loosen or fragment the material. The material then can be pushed by a dozer or loaded by a frontend loader or scraper. The rippability of the material is influenced by the material's compressive strength; bedding planes, joints, and fractures; brittleness; and softness and weakness caused by weathering. Glacial tills, shales, sandstones, conglomerates, schists, and coals usually are rippable while massive and homogeneous formations usually are nonrippable. Rippability can be estimated based on seismography testing, which determines the velocity of seismic waves through the material. The seismic wave velocity indicates the degree of material consolidation, including rock strength, stratification and fracturing, and decomposition. Poorly consolidated materials have lower seismic wave velocity and are easier to rip than hard, tight rock with a higher seismic velocity.
