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    Screw piles, sometimes referred to as screw-piles, screw piers, screw anchors, screw foundations, ground screws, helical piles, helical piers, or helical...
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  • Deep foundation (redirect from Pipe piles)
    [citation needed] Screw piles, also called helical piers and screw foundations, have been used as foundations since the mid 19th century in screw-pile lighthouses...
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    A screw-pile lighthouse is a lighthouse which stands on piles that are screwed into sandy or muddy sea or river bottoms. The first screw-pile lighthouse...
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  • Pile (redirect from Piles (disambiguation))
    in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pile or Piles may refer to: Pile, a type of deep foundation Screw piles, used for building deep foundations Pile bridge...
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    friendly is to use screw piles. Screw pile installations have also extended to residential applications, with many homeowners choosing a screw pile foundation...
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    passengers, Southern Railway started replacing all bridges resting on screw piles, and the bridge was replaced with a new RCC box bridge resting on well...
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    Alexander Mitchell designed the first screw-pile lighthouse – his lighthouse was built on piles that were screwed into the sandy or muddy seabed. Construction...
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    designs can use screw pile foundations, which reduces the road transport of concrete and the environmental impact of installation. Screw piles can be fully...
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    method for the realisation of ground screw-piles", published 1996-12-11  Holeyman, Alain E., ed. (2001). Screw Piles - Installation and Design in Stiff...
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    for its potential to yield further information about modifications to screw piles to allow for sleeve-sinking construction. The structure, particularly...
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    deck Warren Girders, on 2'-6'' (0.762 m) diameter cast iron screw piles. These were screwed till depths, the shallowest being 20 ft (6.096 m), the deepest...
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    locomotives. An iron train shed south of the terminal building was erected on screw piles. It was 600 feet long and 120 feet wide and had 25-foot decorated iron...
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    Irish engineer who from 1802 was blind. He is known as the inventor of the screw-pile lighthouse. Born in Dublin, his family moved to Belfast while he was...
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  • roof - Sawyer - Scabbling - Scaffolding - Schmidt hammer - Screed - Screw piles - Scrim and sarking - Sediment control - Segregation in concrete - Self-build...
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    on December 31, 1890. It is a two-story frame dwelling raised on iron screw-piles, with the lantern placed in a cupola at the peak of the roof. The keeper...
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    and Mobile Bay Lighthouse, is an active hexagonal-shaped cottage style screw-pile lighthouse. The structure is located offshore from Mobile, Alabama...
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    was either fashioned into whole posts, or used in attachments to iron screw-piles or masonry columns. Some sections had uniformly strong support; one such...
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  • kilometers of cables. The arrays are fixed to the ground using 140,000 screw piles. There is no concrete foundation. The EPC contract included provision...
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    Knoll by boat where they were assembled atop of the screw piles. Ice, the perennial threat to screw-pile structures, caused damage in 1884 and 1894, leading...
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    traffic directly out to ships in the harbor. The structure used iron screw piles with wood decking. The pier was later adapted for use by the U.S. Lifesaving...
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    built on the north side of Castle Hill. It was constructed using the new screw-piles that had been created for the foundations in deep sand of Victorian era...
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    cylinder piers with screw piles (piers 6 and 7) 1x2x2 26-foot (7.9 m) timber longitudinals, common cast iron cylinders with screw piles (pier 7), common...
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    who takes a pile is always the one to start the next pile. When taken, piles are always added to a player's deck underneath, face-down, without being...
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    Birch in his ground breaking design for Margate Pier, by specifying iron screw-piles to support a metal frame and wooden deck. Deliveries of iron work from...
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    were built on screw piles 10 inches (250 mm)-14 inches (360 mm) wide with screw discs 36 inches (910 mm) in diameter in groups of three piles per pier. Timber...
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    pier is constructed of cast-iron screw piles, screwed into the sand with a large hexagon on the pile. They are screwed down to the clay level. New steel...
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    in KwaZulu-Natal. There are seven piers each with two 15" cast-iron screw piles, supporting eight 30 plat Port Shepstone Register 30°46′47″S 30°24′48″E...
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  • projects are intended to ease local power shortages. Panels are mounted on screw piles driven into the soil to a depth of 1.5 m, thus avoiding the use of concrete...
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  • of the Boom clay in the Antwerp area". In Holeyman, Alain E. (ed.). Screw Piles — Installation and Design in Stiff Clay. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9789058091925...
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    but consisted of a hard shell over calcareous sand. The screw piles were replaced with iron piles, coated with zinc to protect against corrosion, which...
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