Sentence examples for foundation piers from inspiring English sources

Twenty foundation piers have been sunk into the sea beneath the columns.

Almost identical, these simple chapels are remarkable for their design, which incorporates wood-shingle walls and hipped roofs, resting on foundation piers of hand-hewn coral limestone.

To make the foundation, a 40-foot-wide hole will be dug 10 feet into the ground, making way for a concrete foundation and nine foundation piers linked by 54 stainless steel anchor rods, securing nine elliptical base brackets.

Each of the two tailpits is supported on 9 cylindrical foundation piers.

This necessitated removal of floor joists and foundation piers, but the unsupported floor caused further problems long term, and during the 2008 rebuild it was re-electrified.

The north foundation pier of the bridge was near a hydroelectric plant, raised in 1988.

The new Willis Avenue Bridge will be docked at a yard in Bayonne, N.J., for two weeks before being transported 15 miles up the East River and Harlem River and floated into place atop new foundations and piers.

For simplicity, each unit cell is assumed to be consisted of a pile foundation, a pier and a horizontal beam.

The soil surrounding the foundation of pier is modelled by frequency independent coefficients and the complete dynamic analysis is carried out in time domain using complex modal analysis method.

In order to improve seismic design technology of bridges, it is necessary to evaluate the vibration characteristics of a bridge soil system that consists of soil, foundation structure, pier and superstructure.

After the construction of the foundations and piers it was then discovered that the clay of the riverbed at this point would not be able to support the weight of a concrete bridge.