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A bulkhead is a retaining wall, such as a bulkhead within a ship or a watershed retaining wall. It may also be used in mines to contain flooding. Coastal bulkheads are most often referred to as seawalls, bulkheading, or riprap revetments. These manmade structures are constructed along shorelines with the purpose of controlling beach erosion.
A retaining wall is designed to hold in place a mass of earth or the like, such as the edge of a terrace or excavation. The structure is constructed to resist the lateral pressure of soil when there is a desired change in ground elevation that exceeds the angle of repose of the soil.
Bulkhead also refers to a moveable structure often found in an Olympic-size swimming pool, as a means to set the pool into a "double-ended short course" configuration, or long-course, depending on the type of event being run. Pool bulkheads are usually air-fillable, but power driven solutions do exist.
This photo shows the original bulkhead on Philip Bayley's property, built in the 1930s. The new construction has occurred to the right of the home in the photo.
Construction of prefabricated module blocks of HMS Dauntless at BAE's Portsmouth Shipyard Modern shipbuilding makes considerable use of prefabricated sections . Entire multi-deck segments of the hull or superstructure will be built elsewhere in the yard, transported to the building dock or slipway, then lifted into place.
Stoplogs are specialized bulkheads that are dropped into premade slots or guides in a channel or control structure, while flashboards are bulkheads that are placed on the crest or top of a channel wall or control structure. Flashboards are sometimes designed to break away under high flow conditions and thus to provide only a temporary diversion.
A cofferdam is a small space left open between two bulkheads, to give protection from heat, fire, or collision. [2] Tankers generally have cofferdams forward and aft of the cargo tanks, and sometimes between individual tanks. [3] A pumproom houses all the pumps connected to a tanker's cargo lines. [1] Some larger tankers have two pumprooms. [1]
Bulkhead gates are vertical walls with movable, or re-movable, sections. Movable sections can be lifted to allow water to pass underneath (as in a sluice gate ) and over the top of the structure. Historically, these gates used stacked timbers known as stoplogs or wooden panels known as flashboards to set the dam's crest height.
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