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In civil engineering, a headwall is a small retaining wall placed at the inlet or outlet of a stormwater pipe or culvert. [2] In medicine, a headwall is the wall at the head end of a hospital bedspace. The bed abuts this headwall perpendicularly, which is furnished with equipment such as regulators for supplemental oxygen, regulators for ...
Steel corrugated culvert with a drop on the exhaust end, northern Vermont. Culverts can be constructed of a variety of materials including cast-in-place or precast concrete (reinforced or non-reinforced), galvanized steel, aluminum, or plastic (typically high-density polyethylene). Two or more materials may be combined to form composite ...
Wing walls can be classified according to their position in plan with respect to banks and abutments. The classification is as follows: Straight wing walls: used for small bridges, on drains with low banks and for railway bridges in cities (weep holes are provided). Splayed wing walls: used for bridges across rivers. They provide smooth entry ...
Forterra, Inc. (NYSE: FRTA) manufactures pipe and precast concrete products, provides portable precast bridges and drainage inlets, wing walls, headwalls, junction boxes, end parts of the pipe ...
Northwest entrance. The road features typical Park Service rustic details such as stone retaining walls and culvert headwalls. It is designed to work naturally with the landscape to provide a progression of views to motorists without adverse impact on the land.
Bridge 5757 or the Fond du Lac Culvert is a historic bridge in the Fond du Lac neighborhood of Duluth, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1937 to carry Minnesota State Highway 23 over Mission Creek. It is a double-span culvert built using a modular, corrugated iron product called "multi-plate", with granite headwalls.
The Macquarie Culvert is a double brick culvert under the original Mrs Macquarie's Road (also known as Lady Macquarie's Road [1]) in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, Australia. [2] The culvert was probably built at the same time as the original road, between 1813 and 1816, [ 1 ] making it almost certainly the oldest bridge in Australia.
Wilson, 36, played with the Steelers on a one-year, $1.21 million contract this season while still owed $37.79 million from the Broncos. He will be a free agent without a new contract in Pittsburgh.