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Larssen sheet piling was developed in 1906 by Tryggve Larssen, engineer from Bremen (Germany). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Its applications include piers , oil terminals , waste storage facilities, shoreline protection, [ 5 ] bridges, houses, buildings, dry docks, other construction sites, and for the strengthening of pond banks, preventing slumping into ...
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CMI Roadbuilding, Inc. of Oklahoma City began in 1961, when engineers headed by Bill Swisher started looking for new methods in the road building industry. Little had changed since the early 1900s in the methods of building roads, however, labor costs were skyrocketing and inflation meant taxpayers dollars were buying less and less.
Bored pile retaining wall in Lisbon, Portugal. Bored pile retaining walls are built by assembling a sequence of bored piles, followed by excavating away the excess soil. Depending on the project, the bored pile retaining wall may include a series of earth anchors, reinforcing beams, soil improvement operations and shotcrete reinforcement layer.
While bulkheads may serve their purpose to slow erosion at a bluff or beachfront, they commonly cause a domino effect of change to the beach profile. The increased wave reflection caused by their presence can result in an increased re-suspension of sand in the water in front of the bulkhead.
A steel sheet pile being hydraulically pressed. Hydraulic press-in equipment installs piles using hydraulic rams to press piles into the ground. This system is preferred where vibration is a concern. There are press attachments that can adapt to conventional pile driving rigs to press 2 pairs of sheet piles simultaneously.
Aerial view of the airport. Willard Airport covers 1,799 acres (728 ha) and has three runways: [1]. Runway 4/22: 6,502 by 150 ft (1,982 by 46 m), Grooved asphalt Runway 14L/32R: 8,101 by 150 ft (2,469 by 46 m), Grooved asphalt-concrete with ILS
Movax is a developer and manufacturer of excavator-mounted, automatically controlled piling and foundation equipment and the inventor of the patented modular side grip technology. [1] The product range includes a selection of excavator-mounted accessories like side grip vibratory pile drivers ( SG ), impact-type piling hammers ( DH ), piling ...