A mass haul diagram showing land mass being hauled to land fills and rock mass being hauled to rock fill. Geotechnical materials are able to move and shift, producing more or less void space between their particles. The mass haul line represents the free haul and overhaul volumes in cut and fill conditions along an alignment. Draw the mass diagram and shade in the areas that will cost money to haul. Correct the volume calculated by shrinkage and swell factors 4. In earthmoving, cut and fill is the process of constructing a railway, road or canal whereby the amount of material from cuts roughly matches the amount of fill needed to make nearby embankments, so minimizing the amount of construction labor. The ordinate at any station is the algebraic sum of volumes to that station. From the cut and fill volumes, adjusted by one of the plans described above, ordinates for the mass diagram are computed from the beginning of the diagram, cut volumes being considered positive and fill volumes negative. Without computer software to determine the amount of land to be added or removed, we can do simple calculations to estimate the cut and fill volume of any site.
This is a quick example of how to estimate cut and fill mass balance for earthwork operations in construction. The middle axis of the mass haul view is known as the balance line. The mass diagram does not provide a real cost for a given design. A maximum point on the curve represents the end of a cut. In the drawing, snap to the center of the red circle that is above the profile view to place the mass haul diagram. Typically, the mass diagram is plotted below a profile of the route, with the ordinate at any station representing the sum of the volumes of cut and fill up to that station. The mass diagram does not account for different costs, such as excavation, embankment, load, borrow, and waste. Fm 5430001 chptr 3 surveys and earthwork operations. The benefits of using the spreadsheet for developing the mass haul diagram are that the data is directly tied to the summary, hand calculated quantities are. The free haul distance for a cut and fill project 100yds. Since material volume can vary, initial estimates of earthwork and mass. The mass haul diagram is created using the data from the xsdata worksheet.
Chapter 12 volumes and mass haul diagram a practical guide for using inroads xm 19. Embankment and excavation volumes for an entire project are summarized in the form of a mass diagram, wh ich is an extremely useful tool in the. The mass diagram is an excellent method of determining waste or borrow volumes and can be adapted to show haul transportation considerations figure 6. The mass haul diagram shows excavation adjusted and embankment quantities from some point of beginning on the profile, considering cut volumes positive and fill volumes negative. Swell or shrinkage factors for certain materials source. In figure 317, where the mass diagram ends at station e. Basil david daniel mass haul diagram 50000 40000 30000 20000 0 0 0 20000 30000 40000 50000 60000 70000 80000 90000 cumulative volume cubic meter 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1100 1200 0 1400 chainange m 3 1500. It does not account for earthwork that could start on either end of the road. Application of shrinkage and swelling factors on state. Compute the net earthwork values for each station, applying the appropriate shrink factor net cuts have a positive value, net fills have a negative value the value at the first station origin 0 plot the value of each succeeding station which equals the cumulative value to that point, i. Expand all collapse all road standard drawings figure 35. The total cutminusfill is plotted at each station directly below the profile plot.
Earthwork end area volume end area volume tool performs the traditional endarea volume calculation to compute cut, fill, and net volumes using a series of cross sections extracted along a previously defined alignment 1. Areas below the line represent net fill and areas above the line represent net waste. Grading summary spreadsheet cflhd spreadsheet used to generate the grading summary, mass haul diagram, and miscellaneous summaries. Figure 84 fill area figure 85 cut area figure 86 computation sheet figure 87 curve correction factor figure 88 relationship of balance point and stations figure 89 portion of a mass diagram.
As shown in the following image, mass haul regions identify station ranges where material is either cut or fill. Changes of subtotals are specified by following figures. Mass haul diagrams to construct the mass haul diagram manually. Figure 81 mass haul diagram example 83 earthwork balance with select topping traffic diversion on site detour. The mass haul diagram is displayed, and contains three mass haul regions.
The volume for use is the sum of the peaks and valleys on the diagram. Mass diagrams or masshaul diagrams are plots of the cumulative volumes of cut and fill along an alignment. At the beginning of the curve the ordinate is zero, and ordinates are calculated. The information listed in this lecture is mainly taken from. Chainage where listing of cutfills with possible cutfill changes of summaries is required. The final position of the mass diagram line, above or below the datum line, indicates whether the project was predominately cut or fill. The mass diagram considers unidirectional earthwork only. So, the cut and fill process is typically one of the first construction processes to take place on a site. Surveying lecture notes free haul, overhaul, and mass. Bannister and raymond, 1998 garber 2010 considered the computation of a mass haul diagram after the determination of fill and cut. Earthwork volume calculations don lee, consultant bentley global services. Section 303 earthwork design wyoming department of.
The labeled sections and arrows on the profile show relatively what is to be done to the cuts and fills. Plot mass haul diagram this diagram is not used by modot. Earthworks volumes and masshaul diagram rp71 user guide 5 meaning of individual items is as follows. See workflow chart creating cross sections how to create cross sections click on the end area volume icon 1. The mass haul diagram is now simply a plot of cumulative volume against chainage. Mass haul diagrams the cumulated volume of earthwork at the. Cut slopes are rarely created greater than a slope of two to one horizontal to vertical dimensions. Nddot construction conference 2011 east conference. Earthwork representation guidelines cflhd document providing a guide to the standard procedure for calculating and representing earthwork volumes in the plans. In figure 1010, a 500foot haullimit line has been inserted into the mass diagram curve above and below the lines of. The road line station number goes from left to right.
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