Sentence examples for caisson- from inspiring English sources
The caisson could not simply be capped, because the oil pressure would blow its suction pile out of the sea floor.Whether or not a caisson was used, the oil from the containment assembly would then pass through a manifold a sort of switching yard for pipes to one or more floating risers leading to the surface and held vertical by buoys.
The caisson would fill with oil from the leak.
A containment assembly would then be attached to the top of the caisson to send the oil elsewhere.
Various sizes of caisson will be built, including one 15 metres (50 feet) or so in diameter, large enough to fit over a whole blowout preventer.Once the caisson was in position, the pile would be pumped out and driven into the ooze.
To make an oil-collecting caisson, such a pile would be used as a collar around a funnel-topped tube that would sit over the leak.
These include concrete caisson columns bearing on rock or building on exposed rock itself.
On soft ground, the submerged caisson method is used, a system applied first in 1885 to the building of the Roter Sand Lighthouse in the estuary of the Weser River in Germany and then to the Fourteen Foot Bank light in the Delaware Bay, U.S. With this method, a steel caisson or open-ended cylinder, perhaps 40 feet in diameter, is positioned on the seabed.
The caisson is finally pumped dry and filled with concrete to form a solid base on which the lighthouse proper is built.
The caisson is a hollow boxlike structure that is sunk down through the water and then through the ground to the bearing stratum by excavating from its interior; it ultimately becomes a permanent part of the completed pier.
Vessels can be transported floating in a steel tank or caisson between adjacent pounds by a vertical lift, replacing several locks.
