In geotechnical engineering, a caisson (/ˈkeɪsən, -sɒn/; borrowed from French caisson 'box', from Italian cassone 'large box', an augmentative of cassa)...

Look up Caisson or caisson in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Caisson (French for "box") may refer to: Caisson (engineering), a sealed underwater structure...

Suction caissons (also referred to as suction anchors, suction piles or suction buckets) are a form of fixed platform anchor in the form of an open bottomed...

Caisson foundation may refer to: Caisson (engineering) Deep foundation, also called a caisson foundation This disambiguation page lists articles associated...

siphoned over to the wet area.[clarification needed][citation needed] Caisson (engineering) Causeway Dental dam Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cofferdam" . Encyclopædia...

A caisson is a form of lock gate. It consists of a large floating iron or steel box. This can be flooded to seat the caisson in the opening of the dock...

pole), the pier (which is analogous to a column), drilled shafts, and caissons. Piles are generally driven into the ground in situ; other deep foundations...

by the door on the caisson side, allowing the boat to pass. On the reverse direction, when the boat is in the caisson, the caisson door is raised, followed...

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The caisson (Chinese: 藻井; pinyin: zǎojǐng; lit. 'algae well'), also referred to as a caisson ceiling, or spider web ceiling, in Chinese architecture is...

sickness (DCS; also called divers' disease, the bends, aerobullosis, and caisson disease) is a medical condition caused by dissolved gases emerging from...

2015. "Engineering feats that served our soldiers so well". Bognor Regis Observer. Retrieved 18 December 2015. Historic England. "Phoenix Caisson (inner)...

braced shaft The use of segmental lining installed by underpinning or caisson sunk to form a circular shaft Incremental excavation with a shotcrete circular...

Unpowered spherical deep-sea observation submersible lowered on a cable Caisson (engineering) – Rigid structure to provide workers with a dry working environment...

caissons made of southern yellow pine and filled with cement. Inside both caissons were spaces for construction workers. The Manhattan side's caisson...

varied; whereas in a caisson lock, a boat lift, or on a canal inclined plane, it is the chamber itself (usually then called a caisson) that rises and falls...

The caisson lock is a type of canal lock in which a narrowboat is floated into a sealed watertight box and raised or lowered between two different canal...

types of deep footings including impact driven piles, drilled shafts, caissons, screw piles, geo-piers[clarification needed] and earth-stabilized columns[clarification...

but relatively low risk circumstances when reasonably practicable. Caisson (engineering) – Rigid structure to provide workers with a dry working environment...

using mass (e.g. with caissons), or by using a revetment slope (e.g. with rock or concrete armour units). In coastal engineering, a revetment is a land-backed...

connecting pipe into the shaft of the bottom caisson. The force pushes up on the bottom caisson's ram, raising the caisson up to the top position. When the gate...

contents: Top of section, Ca–Cc, Ce–Cg, Ch, Ci, Cl, Cm, Co, Cr, Cu, Cy Caisson (engineering) – Rigid structure to provide workers with a dry working environment...

panels was often used as decoration for a ceiling or a vault, also called caissons ("boxes"), or lacunaria ("spaces, openings"), so that a coffered ceiling...

good condition." The lighthouse was built in 1883 using pneumatic caisson engineering. The light replaced an earlier 1868 light. Conimicut Lighthouse was...

immediate area by two other methods of canal lifts—first by a series of caisson locks, then by an inclined plane. The lock flight opened in 1805, and was...

construction problems. The deep caissons used for pier and abutment construction signaled a new chapter in civil engineering. Piers were sunk almost 100 feet...

caisson. Offshore geotechnical engineering – Sub-field of engineering concerned with human-made structures in the sea Civil engineering – Engineering...

The Phoenix breakwaters were a set of reinforced concrete caissons built as part of the artificial Mulberry harbours that were assembled as part of the...

of the Brooklyn Bridge after her husband Washington Roebling developed caisson disease (a.k.a. decompression disease) and became bedridden. She served...

largest and most difficult engineering project ever "in absentia." Roebling would battle the after-effects from the caisson disease and its treatment the...