Glossary

See Drive Cap

French: formule de battage

German: Rammformel

Spanish: fórmula de hinca

Italian: formula dinamica per pali infissi

Portuguese: fórmula de cravação

Dutch: heiformule

French: resistance d'un pieu au battage

German: Rammwiderstand

Spanish: resistencia dinámica de un pilote

Italian: resistenza all'infissione dei pali

Portuguese: resistência à cravação

Dutch: heiweerstand

Protective cover for a steel or timber pile. This usually is concrete, added at the water or ground line, where all typed of piles are most vulnerable to corrosion and insect attack

French: extraction d'un pieu

German: Pfahlziehen

Spanish: extracción de pilotes

Italian: estrazione dei pali

Portuguese: extracção de estaca

Dutch: het trekken van een paal

A device for pulling piles out of the ground. It may be an inverted steam or air hammer with yoke equipped to transmit upward blows to the pile body or a specially built extractor utilizing this principle. Vibratory hammers are especially effective. All e

French: extracteur de pieux/engin d'arrachage

See Pile Line.

An equation by which the static resistance or the allowable load of a pile may be estimated from the driving record of the pile. See Dynamic Formula.

The piles and the structural members designed and installed primarily to transmit loads directly from a superstructure to the soil or rock stratum some distance below the ground surface which is capable of supporting the load.

French: foundation sur pieux

German: Pfahlgründung

Spanish: cimentación por pilotaje

Italian: fondazione su pali

Portuguese: fundação por estacaria

Dutch: paalfundering

See Skid Rig.

French: grillage sur pilotis