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roadheader

(ˈrəʊdˌhɛdə)
n
(General Engineering) a piece of tunnelling equipment with a conveyor and a cutter
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For 1H2019, research and development expenses accounted for approximately 6.9% of revenue, up 3.0 percentage points from approximately 3.9% for 1H2018, mainly due to higher investments in R&D on new products, including Smart Mine, Intelligent Terminal, tunnel roadheader, integrated excavation, bolting and self-protection machine, unmanned electric truck, telehandler, automatic bridge and wide-bodied vehicles.
Sobota, "Investigating the simulated control of the rotational speed of roadheader cutting heads, relating to the reduction of energy consumption during the cutting process," Journal of Mining Science, vol.
When tunnel boring machines and selective roadheader excavate roadway from hard rock that its protodyakonov coefficients f are more than 8, their working construction and cutting tools impact and wear violently; at the same time, the working space is unrestricted and working environment is worse, so that their working effect is so poor that cost is high.
But in the hills between Oakland and Orinda, CA, one of the Nation's most labor-intensive highway projects wields a much different kind of tool: a 130-ton (118-metric-ton) roadheader. This piece of tunneling equipment is one of the largest roadheaders ever used in the United States.
There are various factors influencing the performance of roadheader in mechanized drivage operation, which mainly include the physical and mechanical properties of coal and rock and the structural parameters itself.
With the slower pit-bottom excavation work being completed in June 2010, one of those machines, the roadheader, was deployed in the west to join a continuous miner.
A longitudinal cutting head-type miner was first introduced in the former Soviet Union by modifying the Hungarian F2 roadheaders and in the 1970s in Estonia by modifying the Russian coal roadheader 4PP-3.
The tunnels were constructed with a single shielded TBM and a Roadheader in clay and day shale.