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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Earthmoving Equipment"”.
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Analysis Of Fatal And Nonfatal Accidents Involving Earthmoving Equipment Operators And On-Foot Workers
… logistic regression. </p> <p>Heavy construction equipment accidents related data for four type of equipment; backhoe, bulldozer, excavator and scraper were incorporated in the study using categorical variables. Degree of injury indicating the severity of accident outcome (fatal vs. nonfatal) was …
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Mitigation of blast effects on existing structures in austere environments
… that offer protected areas for sensitive equipment. One solution to this problem is simply to build a structure that can be used for this purpose. This method can prove to be difficult in that it could either require large amounts of prefabricated concrete, heavy earthmoving equipment, or …
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Automated Vision-Based Tracking and Action Recognition of Earthmoving Construction Operations
… and action recognition of construction equipment from different camera viewpoints is presented. In the proposed method, a new algorithm based on Histograms of Oriented Gradients and hue-saturation Colors (HOG+C) is used for 2D tracking of the earthmoving equipment. Once the equipment is …
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Will Globalization Play in Peoria? Class, Race, and Nation in the Global Economy, 1948-2000
… labor unions in manufacturing industries such as earthmoving equipment, steel, auto, electronics, and textiles suffered steep and, thus far, irreversible losses in numbers and strength. The consequences have been deep and largely deleterious, with workers facing heightened competition for good …
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A Statistical Analysis Of Construction Equipment Repair Costs Using Field Data & The Cumulative Cost Model
The management of heavy construction equipment is a difficult task. Equipment managers are often called upon to make complex economic decisions involving the machines in their charge. These decisions include those concerning acquisitions, maintenance, repairs, rebuilds, replacements, and …