Structures and methods for working below ground or below water, such as caissons, cofferdams, diaphragm walls, sheet piling, tunnelling shields and immersed tube tunnels. A member belongs here when the cited article describes it as a foundation, excavation or tunnelling structure or method. The group is one of the groupings under this field in the Technology Atlas, and each member keeps its own entry with its own cited sources and its own place in the field. Its members appear in the Browse By view for the field, so a reader can move from this group to each member entry and to the sources cited there.
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Caisson (engineering) (Wikipedia)
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In geotechnical engineering, a caisson (; borrowed from French caisson 'box', from Italian cassone 'large box', an augmentative of cassa) is a watertight retaining structure.
Cofferdam, Wikipedia
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A cofferdam is an enclosure built within a body of water to allow the enclosed area to be pumped out or drained.
Tunnelling shield, Wikipedia
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A tunnelling shield is a protective structure used during the excavation of large, human-made tunnels.
Immersed tube - Wikipedia
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An immersed tube (or immersed tunnel) is a kind of undersea tunnel composed of segments, constructed elsewhere and floated to the tunnel site to be sunk into place and then linked together.
Retaining wall, Wikipedia
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Retaining walls are relatively rigid walls used for supporting soil laterally so that it can be retained at different levels on the two sides.
Slurry wall (Wikipedia)
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A slurry wall is a civil engineering technique used to build reinforced concrete walls in areas of soft earth
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