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Definition of Sheet piling
1. Noun. A pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage.
Definition of Sheet piling
1. Noun. A type of retaining wall used during construction by driving interlocking sheets of material into the ground. ¹
2. Noun. The material used to assemble a sheet pile retaining wall. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheet Piling
Literary usage of Sheet piling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Foundations of Bridges and Buildings by Henry Sylvester Jacoby, Roland Parker Davis (1914)
"It is practically used for the same purpose as timber sheet-piling but the results
secured by it are much more certain. Only one wall is often required to ..."
2. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"Steel sheet piling.—Where one or more sub-basements are to be built adj heavy
building, and the earth under its foundations must not be disturbed, ..."
3. Handbook of Cost Data for Contractors and Engineers: A Reference Book Giving by Halbert Powers Gillette (1910)
"In order to make the cofferdam ready for pumping out a 6-in. x 8- In. waling piece
was bolted to the Inside of the sheet piling and braces placed across ..."
4. Handbook of Building Construction: Data for Architects, Designing and by George Albert Hool, Nathan Clarke Johnson (1920)
"Wooden Sheet-piling.—The old method was to set 1 or 2-in. plank's, and aa the
men excavated, to drive these planks into the ground, holding them in place ..."
5. The Civil Engineer's Pocket-book by John Cresson Trautwine (1919)
"The tops of the sheet piling project »bout a loot above the sills, ... Beyond these
posts the sheet piling P extends :is high as the top of the posts, ..."
6. The Civil Engineer's Pocket-book by John Cresson Trautwine (1894)
"A third sill, S2, of the same length as S, and S3, is then laid behind the sheet
piling ; and the two sills S, and S, and the sheet piling P are then ..."
7. A Practical Treatise on Sub-aqueous Foundations: Including The Coffer-dam by Charles Evan Fowler (1914)
"So that the following paper on Metal Sheet-piling, published in 1836, will
doubtless prove of great interest to engineers, il not of considerable value: ..."
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