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  2. Pile driver - Wikipedia

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    Tracked vehicle configured as a dedicated pile driver. A pile driver is a heavy-duty tool used to drive piles into soil to build piers, bridges, cofferdams, and other "pole" supported structures, and patterns of pilings as part of permanent deep foundations for buildings or other structures. Pilings may be made of wood, solid steel, or tubular ...

  3. Caesar's Rhine bridges - Wikipedia

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    Caesar's Rhine Bridge, an 1814 portrait by John Soane The Italian cross-section of the bridge Reconstruction in Koblenz of a Roman pile driver, used to build the Rhine bridges. Caesar's bridges across the Rhine, the first two bridges on record to cross the Rhine river, were built by Julius Caesar and his legionaries during the Gallic War in 55 ...

  4. Pile bridge - Wikipedia

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    A pile bridge is a structure that uses foundations consisting of long poles (referred to as piles), which are made of wood, concrete or steel and which are hammered into the soft soils beneath the bridge until the end of the pile reaches a hard layer of compacted soil or rock. Piles in such cases are hammered to a depth where the grip or ...

  5. Pile driving for HRBT expansion on Willoughby Bay Bridge to ...

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    Construction on the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion Project will move to the east side of Interstate 64 Willoughby Bay Bridge as early as Friday, according to the Virginia Department of ...

  6. Roman bridge - Wikipedia

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    This method of construction, called pile driving, was necessary for wooden bridges to properly function. Because this technique created cofferdams, which are enclosures build to pump water out of an area. [30] The base for the foundation of the bridge would be put in this area. [15] Cofferdams were constructed of many piles held together.

  7. Deep foundation - Wikipedia

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    Splicing timber piles is still quite common and is the easiest of all the piling materials to splice. The normal method for splicing is by driving the leader pile first, driving a steel tube (normally 60–100 cm long, with an internal diameter no smaller than the minimum toe diameter) half its length onto the end of the leader pile.

  8. Chesapeake Bay Bridge - Wikipedia

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    The Gov. William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge (informally called the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and, locally, the Bay Bridge) is a major dual-span bridge in the U.S. state of Maryland. Spanning the Chesapeake Bay , it connects the state's rural Eastern Shore region with its urban and suburban Western Shore, running between Stevensville and Sandy ...

  9. Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel - Wikipedia

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    The Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel (CBBT, officially the Lucius J. Kellam Jr. Bridge–Tunnel) is a 17.6-mile (28.3 km) bridge–tunnel that crosses the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay between Delmarva and Hampton Roads in the U.S. state of Virginia. It opened in 1964, replacing ferries that had operated since the 1930s.