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2. Dolphin (structure) - Wikipedia

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   Wood pilings grouped into a pair of dolphins serving as a protected entryway to a boat basin. A dolphin is a group of pilings arrayed together to serve variously as a protective hardpoint along a dock, in a waterway, or along a shore; as a means or point of stabilization of a dock, bridge, or similar structure; as a mooring point; and as a base for navigational aids.

3. Timber pilings - Wikipedia

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   Timber-pile bridge with steel stringers, New Jersey. Timber pilings serve as the foundations of many historic structures such as canneries, wharves, and shore buildings. The old pilings present challenging problems during restoration as they age and are destroyed by organisms and decay. Replacing the foundation entirely is possible but expensive.

4. Driven to refusal - Wikipedia

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   Driven to refusal. This is an engineering term for describing how far to drive piles. [1] It is also used in surveying when driving metal posts and monuments that are to be used as bench marks (ie. the elevation of which will be established to a high degree of accuracy). When a very high degree of stability is required the post will be inside ...

5. Franki piling system - Wikipedia

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   The Franki piling system (also called pressure-injected footing) is a method used to drive expanded base cast-in-situ concrete (Franki) piles. [1] It was developed by Belgian Engineer Edgard Frankignoul in 1909.

6. Clover Island restaurant losing its nearly 50-year-old dock ...

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   Specifically, the metal pilings the dock sits on are showing the effects of five decades of current, wind and wake from passing vessels, including watercraft, barges and cruise boats.

7. Pile driver - Wikipedia

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   Pile driver. A pile driver is a heavy-duty tool used to drive piles into soil to build piers, bridges, cofferdams, and other "pole" supported structures, and patterns of pilings as part of permanent deep foundations for buildings or other structures. Pilings may be made of wood, solid steel, or tubular steel (often later filled with concrete ...