A road roller, also known as a soil compactor, is a type of road construction equipment, available in two main categories: steel-wheeled and tire-driven.
Road rollers fall under the category of road equipment in construction machinery and are widely used for compaction work in large-scale projects such as highways, railways, airport runways, dams, and stadiums. They can compact sandy, semi-cohesive, and cohesive soils, stabilized subgrade soils, and asphalt concrete pavement layers.
Road rollers utilize their own weight to perform various compaction operations, causing permanent deformation and densification of the compacted layer.
