Milled Uniform Travel Surface
Cutting elements may be used to degrade hard surfaces in roadway surface milling, earthworking, mining, or other in situ disintegration processes. A plurality of such cutting elements may be disposed on a movable base and thereby brought into engagement with a degradable surface. Groupings of the plurality of cutting elements may comprise unique cutting surface geometries. Various groupings may be arranged on the movable base such that the degradable surface forms a cross-sectional topography resembling a waveform comprising truncated peaks.
1 . A degradation platform, comprising:
a plurality of cutting elements disposed on a movable base; and
wherein groupings of the plurality of cutting elements comprise unique cutting surface geometries.
2 . The degradation platform of claim 1 , wherein:
a first grouping of the plurality of cutting elements comprises conical shaped cutting surface geometries; and
a second grouping of the plurality of cutting elements comprises flat shaped cutting surface geometries.
3 . The degradation platform of claim 2 , wherein the flat shaped cutting surface geometries are formed as semicircular cylinders.
4 . The degradation platform of claim 2 , wherein cutting elements from the first grouping are alternated with cutting elements from the second grouping in a series.
5 . The degradation platform of claim 2 , wherein cutting elements from the first grouping are in a series parallel to a series of cutting elements from the second grouping.
6 . The degradation platform of claim 2 , wherein cutting elements from the first grouping are alternated with cutting elements from the second grouping when viewed tangentially.
7 . The degradation platform of claim 2 , wherein the first grouping is disposed at a greater distance from the movable base than the second grouping.
8 . The degradation platform of claim 2 , wherein at least two cutting elements from the first grouping precede a cutting element from the second grouping in a direction of motion of the movable base.
9 . The degradation platform of claim 1 , wherein:
a first grouping of the plurality of cutting elements comprises cylindrical shaped cutting surface geometries; and
a second grouping of the plurality of cutting elements comprises flat shaped cutting surface geometries.
10 . The degradation platform of claim 1 , wherein:
a first grouping of the plurality of cutting elements comprises dome shaped cutting surface geometries; and
a second grouping of the plurality of cutting elements comprises flat shaped cutting surface geometries.
11 . The degradation platform of claim 1 , wherein the movable base is a rotatable drum.
12 . The degradation platform of claim 1 , wherein the movable base is a continuous chain.
13 . The degradation platform of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of cutting elements is detachable from the movable base.
14 . The degradation platform of claim 1 , wherein the groupings are interchangeable.
15 . The degradation platform of claim 1 , wherein the movable base is disposed on a translatable vehicle.
16 . A degradable surface, comprising a cross-sectional topography resembling a waveform comprising truncated peaks.
17 . The degradable surface of claim 16 , wherein the waveform comprising truncated peaks is uniform.
18 . The degradable surface of claim 16 , wherein the waveform comprising truncated peaks is triangular.
19 . The degradable surface of claim 16 , wherein the waveform comprising truncated peaks is sinusoidal.
20 . The degradable surface of claim 16 , wherein the cross-sectional topography further comprises valleys wherein spacing between the valleys varies.