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  2. A Primer on the Precarious Ground Heckmann Stands On - AOL

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    Heckmann comes into play dealing with the solution that is injected into the ground. Though it doesn't insert some of the unknown and controversial elements into the solution, it aims to provide ...

  3. Screw piles - Wikipedia

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    Helical anchors consist of an extendable steel shaft with helical bearing plates. Piles or piers refer to strong base elements that withstand or transfer vertical/horizontal loads. Anchors are piles utilised only in tension applications like restraining wall tiebacks or vertical ground anchors made to resist overturning forces.

  4. Tieback (geotechnical) - Wikipedia

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    Typically in the form of a horizontal wire or rod, or a helical anchor, a tieback is commonly used along with other retaining systems (e.g. soldier piles, sheet piles, secant and tangent walls) to provide additional stability to cantilevered retaining walls. [1]

  5. Anchor Stone Blocks - Wikipedia

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    The trademark "Anker" was used by various toy companies in East Germany, none of which were related to the stone building set factory. However, existing sets of old Anchor Stones remained very popular within the international community. In 1979, the Club van Ankervrienden ("Club of Anchor Friends") was founded in the Netherlands. Initially the ...

  6. Lewis (lifting appliance) - Wikipedia

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    Lifting the stone a small distance from the ground before hoisting is the best way to test a lewis. Any sign of looseness or damage should be corrected by adjusting the lewis hole or packing the lewis with metal shims. To bed a stone using a lewis, the stone is placed on dunnage laid flat with enough clearance for a mortar bed to be placed ...

  7. Tensioned stone - Wikipedia

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    Tensioned stone is a high-performance composite construction material: stone held in compression with tension elements. The tension elements can be connected to the outside of the stone, but more typically tendons are threaded internally through a drilled duct.

  8. Offshore embedded anchors - Wikipedia

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    A deep-penetrating anchor (DPA) is conceptually similar to a torpedo anchor: it features a dart-shaped, thick-walled, steel cylinder with flukes attached to the upper section of the anchor. A full-scale DPA is approximately 15 metres (49 ft) in length, 1.2 metres (4 ft) in diameter, and weighs on the order of 50–100 tonnes (49–98 long tons ...

  9. History of the anchor - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Greeks used baskets of stones, large sacks filled with sand, and wooden logs filled with lead, which, according to Apollonius Rhodius and Stephen of Byzantium, were formed of stone; and Athenaeus states that they were sometimes made of wood. Such anchors held the vessel merely by their weight and by their friction along the bottom ...