A Vögele SUPER 2180-3 Li Paver and a Hamm HD 148i VO Tandem Roller Delivered Impressive Performance and Quality on a Major Highway Construction Project in China.
Major construction project in China’s Shanxi Province The Jincheng-Yangcheng Expressway in China is being widened from two to four lanes in each direction over a total distance of 42.6 km. A part of this project is the construction of a new bypass road with a length of 3 km and a width of up to 12.5 m This new road serves as a bypass for the highway, which is temporarily closed due to the construction project. On completion of this project, it will be used as a special lane for emergency vehicles in the event of accidents. Traffic can also be diverted onto the new road in case of tunnel closures due to emergencies.
Jincheng-Yangcheng Expressway | Shanxi Province
The widening of the Jincheng-Yangcheng Expressway is a major road construction project in China’s Shanxi Province. The overall length of the road construction project is 42.6 km. The project was located near the city of Jincheng.
On the 3 km section, a Vögele paver and a roller from Hamm produced and compacted a surface layer with a thickness of 6 cm. The SUPER 2180-3 Li Highway Class paver and the 14 t HD 148i VO tandem roller delivered high surface quality in the process. In combination with the SB 300 TV fixed-width screed, the paver laid down a seamless surface layer across a width of 11 to 12.5 m. The HD 148i VO tandem roller delivered high-quality compaction in only four passes, which was made possible through the use of the oscillation system from Hamm. These figures clearly confirm the outstanding capabilities of the Vögele and Hamm machines.
Paving extreme widths: The outstanding capabilities of the Vögele and Hamm machines played a decisive role in assuring the success of this major project.
Paving at such a large width and efficient, high-quality compaction are a logistically and technically challenging proposition. The construction contractor, Jincheng Luchuang Asphalt Application Co., Ltd., left nothing to chance when planning the project. After a thorough analysis of all available machine technologies, the contractor chose the two Wirtgen Group machines. Their exceptional efficiency was the main factor that tipped the scales in their favor. The SUPER 2180-3 Li, for example, is specially designed for high paving performance. Among other things, its efficient material management and the particularly high capacity of its material hopper made it the ideal choice for the project. The hopper has a capacity of 15 t and thereby guarantees the rapid transfer of asphalt mix from tipper trucks and contributes to an uninterrupted paving process.
The impressive qualities of the SUPER 2180-3 Li Highway Class paver and the SB 300 TV fixed width screed become particularly clear when paving extreme widths. This was also the case on the highway construction project in Shanxi: The Vögele paver paved the 6 cm surface layer of asphaltic concrete at a laydown rate of 2 to 4 m/min – pretty impressive performance, considering the extreme paving width of 11 to 12.5 m. With the fixed-width screed, the paving crew achieved even and seamless, high-quality paving results across the entire width. In the course of this, the SB 300 offered not only high paving performance, but also maximum flexibility and efficiency: Thanks to the extra-wide hydraulic bolt-on extensions, the width of the screed can be hydraulically varied by up to 2.5 m. Due to the varying working widths in Shanxi, this was particularly practical and time saving, as it was not necessary to install or remove bolt-on extensions to the fixed width screed. The operator was able to easily vary the width with SmartWheel on the screed control console.
