Glossary

French: délaver

German: auslaugen, durchsickern

Spanish: lixiviar

Italian: lisciva

Portuguese: deslavar

Dutch: loog

1. A structure of fabricated steel or wood in which or on which a pile hammer travels up and down and with which the hammer and pile assembly is aligned in driving position. 2. A complete hammer support system including lead column, brace and other comp

pile pressed into soil by means of static force

French: pieux vérinés

German: hydraulisch eingepresster Fertigpfahl

Spanish: pilotes hincados a presión

Italian: pali precompressi

Portuguese: estacas instaladas sob pressão

Dutch: gevijzelde palen

1. A means of imposing a static driving force on a pile by using hydraulic jacks. Using extensively to install piles in underpinning of structures. A jacked pile. 2. The means of precisely transferring load from another source (either dead weight or a rea

French: vérinage

French: appareil de levage

German: hydraulische Pressgeräte

Spanish: aparato de elevación

Italian: attrezzatura di precompressione

Portuguese: equipamento de elevação

Dutch: vijzel appartuur

Devices that interface with and are used to clamp a vibratory driver/extractor to a pile.

French: mâchoires

French: jet, réacteur

German: Düse

Spanish: chorro

Italian: getto

Portuguese: jacto

Dutch: mondstuk, straal, spuiten

A method of ground modification that mixes cement with insitu soil using high pressure air and/or water jets to form “soilcrete”. Jet grouting is generally used for excavation shoring, underpinning, and as a hydraulic barrier.

French: pieux lancés

German: eingespülter Pfahl

Spanish: pilotes hincados con lanza de agua

Italian: pali iniettati

Portuguese: estacas cravadas com jacto de água

Dutch: gespoten palen

The use of water or compressed air jet to facilitate the placing or driving of a pile by means of hydraulic displacement of parts of the soil. In some cases, a high pressure compressed air jet(s) may be used, either alone or with water. Also called Water