steel sheet piling
1sheet pile — noun a pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage • Syn: ↑sheath pile, ↑sheet piling • Hypernyms: ↑pile, ↑spile, ↑piling, ↑stilt * * * noun : an …
2piling — noun a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure • Syn: ↑pile, ↑spile, ↑stilt • Hypernyms: ↑column, ↑pillar • Hyponyms: ↑sheet pile, ↑ …
3sheet|pile — «SHEET PYL», noun. a piling formed of thick planks driven between the main piles of a cofferdam or other hydraulic work to retain or to exclude water: »The cofferdams are basically a series of interlocking cells filled with sand and walled by… …
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5building construction — Techniques and industry involved in the assembly and erection of structures. Early humans built primarily for shelter, using simple methods. Building materials came from the land, and fabrication was dictated by the limits of the materials and… …
6Dam — This article is about structures for water impoundment. For other uses, see Dam (disambiguation). Hoover Dam, a concrete arch gravity dam in Black Canyon of the Colorado River. Lake Mead in the background is impounded by the dam …
7Engineering Projects — ▪ 1995 Introduction BRIDGES Notable Engineering Projects(For Notable Engineering Projects in work, see Table (Notable Engineering Projects).) As the decade of the 1990s reached its midpoint, the limits to bridge design were being… …
8Hard engineering — In civil engineering of shorelines, hard engineering is generally defined as controlled disruption of natural processes by using man made structures. It is sometimes considered to be the use of concrete breakwalls [… …
9Deep foundation — A deep foundation installation for a bridge in Napa, California, United States …
10Wrought iron — is commercially pure iron. In contrast to steel, it has a very low carbon content. It is a fibrous material due to the slag inclusions (a normal constituent). This is also what gives it a grain resembling wood, which is visible when it is etched… …
