Glossary

A proprietary name for tapered steel piles, usually having twelve(12) sides and fitted with a cast steel driving point. The pile is filled with concrete after installation. This pile is designed to carry heavy loads in friction in poor soils and is top dr

See Caisson Hammer.

A heavy device with hydraulic rams attached to several individual sheet piles; rams are operated separately to push or pull a sheet while others furnish reaction.

A structure which holds a pile hammer in box leads that are wider than the hammer, and permits extended driving by carrying the hammer beyond the bottom of the leads. Also called Hairpin, Pony Leads.

French: fondation sur semelle filante

German: Streifenfundament

Spanish: cimentación por zapata corrida

Italian: fondazione a strisce (nastriforme)

Portuguese: fundação contínua

Dutch: strookfundering

The distance traveled up or down by the ram of a pile hammer.

French: course

French: fissuration (de bâtiment)

German: bauliche Schäden

Spanish: averias de una estructura

Italian: danno strutturale

Portuguese: dano estrutural

Dutch: constructieve (bouw-)schade

French: structure, ouvrage

German: Bauwerk

Spanish: estructura

Italian: struttura

Portuguese: estrutura

Dutch: constructie, bouwwerk

1. A compression member extended horizontally form bent to bent, or pile to pile in a bent, and serving as a stiffening member. 2. A compression member extending from waler to support point which may be another waler or the ground. 3. See Brace.

French: étai, contre-fiche

German: Steife, Strebe

Spanish: puntal

Italian: diagonale, puntello, contrasto rigido

Portuguese: escora

French: étai, contre-fiche

German: Steife, Strebe

Spanish: puntal

Italian: diagonale, puntello, contrasto rigido

Portuguese: escora

Dutch: stempel