one of a group of piles made of timber, steel, or prestressed concrete set close together to resist lateral pressure, as from earth or water
Compare bearing pile
sheet pile in American English
noun
one of a number of piles, usually flat, driven side by side to retain earth, etc., or to prevent seepage into an excavation
Also called: sheath pile
Derived forms
sheet piling
Word origin
[1835–45]This word is first recorded in the period 1835–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: basic, crosshead, ecumenical, faceplate, protein
Examples of 'sheet pile' in a sentence
sheet pile
Covered sheet-pile wharves are widely used in port engineering, water conservancy, and civil engineering.
Wen-xue Gong, Li-yan Wang, Jinsong Li, Bing-hui Wang 2018, 'Displacement Calculation Method on Front Wall of Covered Sheet-Pile Wharf', Advances in Civil Engineeringhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/5037057. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Furthermore, the functions of sheet-pile breakwater and catchwater were also incorporated as turbulent sources.
Yajun Wang 2015, '3-Dimensional Stochastic Seepage Analysis of a Yangtze River Embankment', Mathematical Problems in Engineeringhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/420264. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Deep excavations are supported by systems like conventional retaining walls, sheet pile walls, braced walls, diaphragm walls and pile walls.
Venkata Ramasubbarao GODAVARTHI, Dineshbabu MALLAVALLI, Ramya PEDDI, Neelesh KATRAGADDA,Prudhvikrishna MULPURU 2012, 'Contiguous Pile Wall as a Deep Excavation Supporting System', Leonardo Electronic Journal of Practices and Technologieshttp://lejpt.academicdirect.org/A19/144_160.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)