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Improvement and design of roads for the transportation of livestock products

Abstract

As every productive activity so the animal husbandry requires management and connection with the grassland environment and resources. Because of the transportation of animals and rough ages must be fast and safe, a good and durable road network is required. For this reason the forest engineer must calculate the strength of soil (CBR) the type of vehicles (two or three axles) and the load as equivalent axles and to, design an aggregate surfaced road for the increase of bearing capacity with the help of USDA equation. In this paper a such design for the grasslands of Iasmos Rodopis is presented.

Authors
P. Eskioglou
Affiliation
Department of Forest and Natural Environment Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki 540 06 Thessaloniki, Greece
Keywords
Aggregate surfaced layer reduction, design and soil stabilization, transportation livestock products
Proceedings
RANGE SCIENCE AT THE THRESHOLD OF THE 21ST CENTURY – Proceedings of the 2nd Panhellenic Rangeland Congress in Ioannina, 4-6 October 2000 (Edited by: Thomas G. Papachristou & Olympia Dini)
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