GP-4000

GP-4000
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GP-4000

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Overview of GP-4000 Paver:
The GP-4000 is a high-production concrete paver designed for large-scale projects such as highways, airports, and city streets. It features a modular frame that can telescope up to 3.5 feet, allowing for paving widths from 12 to 50 feet in a single pass. The paver is available in both two-track and four-track configurations.
Control System:
The GP-4000 is equipped with the G+® control system, which includes self-diagnostics for grade, slope, and steering. It supports dual grade controls and 3D stringless guidance technology, enhancing operational ease and precision.
Safety and Design Features:
The paver includes multiple emergency stops, track guards, and a robust frame structure for durability. It is designed to handle wider paving widths with features like turnbuckles and manual pivoting mount arms for stability.
High-Production Capabilities:
The GP-4000 excels in high-production slipform paving, capable of paving up to 50 feet wide in a single pass. It is equipped with the IDBI dowel bar inserter for accurate bar placement, meeting all specification requirements for projects like airports and highways.
Versatility and Mobility:
The modular design allows for easy transport and setup, with specified minimum transport dimensions for both two-track and four-track configurations. It also features a reversible auger for efficient concrete spreading.
Advanced Technology Integration:
The G+ control system interfaces with 3D stringless guidance technology, allowing for real-time navigation and precise control. This system supports various paving applications, including radii and superelevations.
Specifications and Features:
  • The paver has a modular frame with telescoping capabilities up to 3.5 feet for variable width paving.
  • It includes a reversible 16-inch diameter hydraulically powered grout box split auger for material control in superelevations.
  • The hydraulic strike-off is vertically adjustable to meter material into the mold, and the machine is equipped with a 20-inch spreading auger with a maximum speed of 75 rpm.
  • Hydraulic sideplates allow for variable depth paving, and a stationary cooler with a hydraulic fan cools the vibrator circuit oil.
  • The GOMACO G+® control system enhances operator visibility and accessibility.
  • The machine features a manual pivoting leg mount and hydraulically powered crawler track with adjustable speeds.
  • Leg height is adjustable up to 48 inches, and a pressurized water system is included.
Bar Insertion Systems:
  • GOMACO offers hydraulic, air-powered, and manual bar insertion systems designed to fit project specifications.
  • The systems include frame-mounted, side-mounted, and trailing form bar inserters for accurate bar placement.
  • The hydraulic system includes vibration for concrete consolidation around bars, requiring a minimum slab depth of six inches.
Power Transition Adjuster (PTA):
  • The PTA provides on-the-go transitions in the crown of the concrete slab, controlled via the operator’s console.
  • The GOMACO G+® accessory control system allows for programmed transitions and controls multiple components like tie bar inserters and spray bars.
  • The PTA setup display is user-friendly, showing transition countdown, target height, and current height of each PTA.
Detachable Auger/Strike-Off:
  • The 5000 series paving mold features a detachable telescoping auger/strike-off for easy width changes and transportation.
  • The auger/strike-off can be hydraulically raised and lowered, with telescoping capabilities for changing paving widths.
  • The design allows for transportation under 12 feet wide on one truck.
Ultimate Paving Systems:
  • The paving system includes a box design with a durable paving skin, vertically-adjustable mold mount, and telescoping end sections.
  • Features include hydraulic vertical hinged sideplates, split sideplates, and a pivoting mold mounting beam.
  • The system supports various accessories and structural integrity enhancements.
Auto-Float® System:
  • The Auto-Float is an attachment for sealing the concrete surface during paving, with adjustable proximity switches for direction changes.
  • The float pan can be adjusted up to a 45-degree skew and oscillates up to 46 cycles per minute.
  • A water spray system is available as an option, and hydraulic controls adjust the pan speed and oscillation.
Conclusion:
The GOMACO GP-4000 is a versatile and advanced concrete paver, offering high production, precision, and safety for large-scale paving projects. Its integration of modern control systems and modular design makes it a preferred choice for complex paving tasks.
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GP-4000-1

The Worldwide Leader in Concrete Paving Technology

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GP-4000-2

’ World s Largest Mainline Paver • The modular frame telescopes on the left side up to 3.5 feet (1.07 m) and modular vibrator packages provide ease in changing hydraulics for paving widths. The GP-4000 four-track and two-track features high-production and proven rideability results on new and reconstruction of highways, airports and city streets. Mainline and airport paving widths range from 12 feet (3.66 m) to 50 feet (15.24 m) in a single

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GP-4000-3

GOMACO’s exclusive G+® control system features self-diagnostics for front and rear grade, cross slope, steering, and reverse steering for ease of operation. GOMACO’s control system features dual grade controls for sensoring stringline on both sides of the machine simultaneously. 3D stringless guidance technology is adaptable to this control system. The GP-4000 is equipped with multiple emergency stops, track guards and other safety features.

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GP-4000-4

High-Production Slipform Paving • Airports and Mainline Paving • Enhanced On-Site Mobility • Modular Hardware • Versatile Modular Design • Superior Rideability • Stringless Technology • Telescoping Frame • Safety Features • Up to 50 Foot (15.24 m) Wide Paving The GOMACO paving train provided high-production on this mainline paving project in Detroit, Michigan. The company used their GOMACO placer/ spreader for accurate placing and spreading of concrete in front of the GP-4000 paver, and following the paver was the GOMACO T/C-600, used for texturing and curing the slab. The versatile GP-4000 has...

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GP-4000-5

The GOMACO GP-4000 is the preferred paver for airports around the world. High production on runways and aprons is achieved with slipform paving up to 50 feet (15.24 m) wide in a single pass. This four-track, equipped with the GOMACO’s IDBI dowel bar inserter, meets all specification requirements on the Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, Arizona. GOMACO’s IDBI is a fully automated patented system for both two-track and four-track pavers. The exclusive IDBI system is far superior to others on the market. It is proven to be the world’s most accurate in bar placement location, productivity, and meeting...

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GP-4000-6

Proven Rideability Around The World The GP-4000 four-track, equipped with the IDBI dowel bar inserter, is slipforming the Meihe Highway in the Guangdong province of China. This mainline highway project is being slipformed at 29 feet (8.84 m) wide and 11 inches (279 mm) deep. The two-track GP-4000 is equipped with the world’s most accurate IDBI system. GOMACO’s patented IDBI dowel bar inserter provides ease and accuracy in dowel bar placement transversely across the slab. This machine is also equipped with a sidemounted air-powered bar inserter and will accommodate most types of bars. Optional...

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GP-4000-7

The versatile four-track GP-4000 is equipped with the IDBI system. The exclusive operating system allows the machine to be controlled by an automated 3D stingless guidance system and not by stringline. This is a two-layer mainline paving project in the Czech Republic. Paving widths on this project range from 35 feet (10.7 m) to 40 feet (12.2 m). The total thickness of the two-layer slab is 12 inches (305 mm). GOMACO’s patented two-layer paving mold incorporates two-layer paving into a “single-mold design.” This system eliminates the use of more equipment for the job and eliminates having to extend...

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GP-4000-8

The GP-4000 Is Chosen For Mainline Paving The four-track GP-4000 slipforms four miles (6.4 km) of concrete on Route 30 in Fontana, California. The project was paved in three continuous sections to provide a new east/west artery into Los Angeles, California, to relieve congestion into the city. The GP-4000 was set up to slipform 38.5 foot (11.7 m) wide passes, 11 inches (279 mm) thick, with over 123,000 cubic yards (94,041 m3) of concrete. The machine was equipped with GOMACO’s patented IDBI system for the placement of bars. The IDBI dowel bar inserter provided easy and accurate bar placement....

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GP-4000-9

The four-track GP-4000 is designed to meet all the paving specifications and rideability requirements while slipforming a toll road near Austin, Texas. This massive project was nearly 100 miles (161 km) of concrete paving with the roadway ranging from 40 feet (12.2 m) up to 64 feet (19.5 m) wide, and the majority of the concrete was 13 inches (330 mm) thick and paving over continuous steel reinforcing. The GOMACO GP-4000 was set up to pave at three different paving widths, 18 feet (5.5 m), 22 feet (6.7 m), and 24 feet (7.3 m). The company chose the GP-4000 for this project because of the overall...

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GP-4000-10

GOMACO’s two-track GP-4000 is paving passes 24 feet (7.3 m) wide and 15 inches (381 mm) thick on a new interstate in Arizona. The new roadway, at its widest point, will be 84 feet (25.6 m) with four lanes of traffic in each direction. The GP-4000 is equipped with the 5400 series mold and three different bar insertion systems, including a front-mounted center bar inserter, two rear-mounted side bar inserters, and the IDBI that inserts the dowel bars for the transverse joint. Along with the three bar insertion systems, the GP-4000 paver is also equipped with an Auto-Float® attachment and burlap...

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GP-4000-11

GOMACO’s four-track GP-4000 is equipped with an IDBI for accurate dowel bar placement while slipforming the “New Silk Road” in Kazakhstan. The intersection between the two major runways at the Sioux Falls Airport in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, was removed and replaced in just two weekends. Paving production with the GOMACO GP-4000 averaged 400 cubic yards (305.8 m3) per hour. A second batch plant had to be utilized to keep up with the paver’s production while slipforming 37.5 feet (11.4 m) wid

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GP-4000-12

The four-track GP-4000 is slipforming a 34 foot (10.36 m) wide section of the Interstate 15 in Ontario, California. The slipform paver is equipped with GOMACO’s exclusive G+® operating system and an IDBI to place the transverse dowel bars. The GOMACO GP-4000 slipform paver features the exclusive G+ control system and is at work on the Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado. The four-track GP-4000 is slipforming paving passes 25 feet (7.6 m) wide and 18 inches (457 mm) thick on the new runway. It is equipped with a 3D stringless guidance system. 12

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