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Definition of Sheet pile
1. Noun. A pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sheet Pile
Literary usage of Sheet pile
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)
""joe is a half-tone showing the details of the bracing used for the steel sheet-pile
cofferdam at the Loomis St. tunnel. Chicago. The cofferdam was 75 by 53 ..."
2. Foundations of Bridges and Buildings by Henry Sylvester Jacoby, Roland Parker Davis (1914)
"Fig. .joe is a half-tone showing the details of the bracing used for the steel
sheet-pile cofferdam at the Loomis St. tunnel. Chicago. ..."
3. The Improvement of Rivers: A Treatise on the Methods Employed for Improving by Benjamin Franklin Thomas, David Alexander Watt (1913)
"Steel Sheet-pile Cofferdams.—Steel sheet-piling can in certain cases be used
advantageously for cofferdams, as it requires only a small space, and if braced ..."
4. A Treatise on Masonry Construction by Ira Osborn Baker (1914)
"Wood Sheet-Pile Coffer-Dam. For shallow depths the sheet piles may be simply
plank, and for greater depths either thick tongued- and-grooved plank or ..."
5. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"(See sheet pile.) Sand Pile. A preparation for foundation in soft soil — a substitute
... sheet pile. One of a series of accurately cut and squared timbers ..."
6. A Practical Treatise on Sub-aqueous Foundations: Including The Coffer-dam by Charles Evan Fowler (1914)
"Simple Sheet-pile Driver.—Large Pile-driving Derricks.—Machinery for Pile-driving.
... Polygonal Sheet-pile Reservoir Coffer-dam at Fort Monroe, Va. ..."
7. A Practical Treatise on Engineering and Building Foundations: Including Sub by Charles Evan Fowler (1920)
"Sheet-pile Details.— Wakefield Sheet-piles —Shoes for Sheet-piles —Overdriving of
... Polygonal Sheet-pile Reservoir Coffer-dam at Fort Monroe, Va. ..."
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