Steel sheet piles have more than a century-long history of being used to support excavations for buried structures (Figure 1). During the construction process, the sheet piles traditionally provide ...

Driven vertically into the ground, interlocking metal plates known as sheet piles can keep soil from eroding after rainfall, they can serve as retaining walls on slopes, or perform other functions.

The engineers agreed that even the relatively low vibration levels documented during sheet pile driving near the condo could have contributed to the collapse by exacerbating pre-existing damage along ...

SOUTH NYACK – Thomas Neff has gotten used to construction noise from the Tappan Zee Bridge project, but in recent days, it's gone to a whole new level. It's coming from pile driving taking place on ...