Everything about Bulldozer
Earth-moving machine
A bulldozer or dozer is a large tractor equipped with a metal blade at the front for pushing material during construction work. It travels most commonly on continuous tracks, though specialized models riding on large off-road tires are also produced. Its most popular accessory is a ripper, a large hook-like device mounted singly or in multiples in the rear to loosen dense materials. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: BulldozerA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: MPC-based trajectory tracking control of unmanned underwater tracked bulldozer considering track slipping and motion smoothingInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: BulldozersThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Structure and Example in Modular Political Phenomena: The Diffusion of Bulldozer/Rose/Orange/Tulip RevolutionsCited 285 times
- Go sideways: Heavy equipmentA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Caterpillar D9A closely related topic
đź“– Definitions
Noun A tractor with caterpillar tracks and an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.
Noun One who bulldozes.
Noun A member of a self-identified group of white US Southerners who colluded to influence outcomes of post-Reconstruction elections by intimidating, coercing and bullying black voters and legislators, including burning down houses and churches, flogging and murdering opponents.
Noun A bully; an overbearing individual.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Structure and Example in Modular Political Phenomena: The Diffusion of Bulldozer/Rose/Orange/Tulip Revolutions
Soil disturbance and post-logging forest recovery on bulldozer paths in Sabah, Malaysia
Bulldozer Neo-liberalism in Istanbul: The State-led Construction of Property Markets, and the Displacement of the Urban Poor
Ecosystem Recovery in Amazon Caatinga Forest after Cutting, Cutting and Burning, and Bulldozer Clearing Treatments
“Remember When You Got The Big, Big Bulldozer?” Mother–Child Reminiscing Over Time and Across Cultures
Effects of non-smooth characteristics on bionic bulldozer blades in resistance reduction against soil
Mesozoic-Cenozoic deformation in the Canadian Cordillera: The record of a “Continental Bulldozer”?
3-D DEM simulation of cohesive soil-pushing behavior by bulldozer blade
🆕 Influential since 2022
MPC-based trajectory tracking control of unmanned underwater tracked bulldozer considering track slipping and motion smoothing
Design and experimental validation of a robust model predictive control for the optimal trajectory tracking of a small-scale autonomous bulldozer
Earthwork digital twin for teleoperation of an automated bulldozer in edge dumping
Complete coverage path planning and performance factor analysis for autonomous bulldozer
A “bulldozer” driven by anoxic bacteria for pancreatic cancer chemo-immunotherapy
đź“š Books worth reading
BulldozersMoira Butterfield · 1995
Bulldozers at workD. R. Addison · 2009
My Italian bulldozerAlexander McCall Smith · 2016
BulldozersMari C. Schuh · 2017
DiggersPaul Stickland · 1986- 📕Bulldozers Push!Beth Bence Reinke · 2017
- 📕BulldozersMarv Alinas · 2007
Construction zoneTana Hoban · 1997
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