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2. Screw piles - Wikipedia

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   Screw piles are typically manufactured from high-strength steel [1] using varying sizes of tubular hollow sections with helical flights. The pile shaft transfers a structure's load into the pile. Helical steel plates are welded to the pile shaft to suit the site specific ground conditions. Helices can be press-formed to a specified pitch or ...

3. Larssen sheet piling - Wikipedia

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   Larssen sheet piling was developed in 1906 by Tryggve Larssen, engineer from Bremen (Germany). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Its applications include piers , oil terminals , waste storage facilities, shoreline protection, [ 5 ] bridges, houses, buildings, dry docks, other construction sites, and for the strengthening of pond banks, preventing slumping into ...

4. Piling maintenance a challenge along riverfront - AOL

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   For the many businesses and organizations that are still held up by wood, steel and concrete pilings, the need for maintenance can be a harsh reality. But putting off necessary upkeep can lead to ...

5. Dolphin (structure) - Wikipedia

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   Wood pilings grouped into a pair of dolphins serving as a protected entryway to a boat basin. A dolphin is a group of pilings arrayed together to serve variously as a protective hardpoint along a dock, in a waterway, or along a shore; as a means or point of stabilization of a dock, bridge, or similar structure; as a mooring point; and as a base for navigational aids.

6. Whirlpool Jet Boats installing new docks at waterfront

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   To help with that, new docks for the Whirlpool Jet Boats are planned for the waterfront, decks that would better accommodate the new seawall. Jet Boats owner John Kinney said this new system has ...

7. Pile driver - Wikipedia

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   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 steel (often later filled with concrete), and may be ...

8. Cofferdam - Wikipedia

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   A cofferdam on the Ohio River near Olmsted, Illinois, built for the purpose of constructing the Olmsted Lock and Dam A cofferdam during the construction of locks at the Montgomery Point Lock and Dam A cofferdam is an enclosure built within a body of water to allow the enclosed area to be pumped out or drained. [ 1 ]

9. Caisson (engineering) - Wikipedia

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   Schematic cross section of a pressurized caisson. In geotechnical engineering, a caisson (/ ˈ k eɪ s ən,-s ɒ n /; borrowed from French caisson 'box', from Italian cassone 'large box', an augmentative of cassa) is a watertight retaining structure [1] used, for example, to work on the foundations of a bridge pier, for the construction of a concrete dam, [2] or for the repair of ships.