Their first pile jackets were of fabric that had been intended for toilet-seat covers.
This paper presents a study into the monotonic lateral loading behavior of tetrapod piled jacket foundations in undrained clay, with the complex lateral loads being simplified to an equivalent lateral load acting at a certain height of the jacket.
People pitch tents, and if it's chilly at night they grab some padding from a pile of down jackets that he and Duguid buy by the armful at a Toronto resale establishment called the Pound, where two dollars buys a pound of clothes.
On a nearby stretch of ground, I saw the uniforms of a dozen firefighters left in piles, jackets laid over boots with the sleeves neatly folded.
At the top of the pile are jackets and gilets and full-leg racing tights.
Dumping a pile of jackets, pants and shirts on the counter of a West Village dry cleaner, Wayne Kasserman had a pungent problem: A skunk had sprayed outside a Los Angeles guest house where he was staying, and the stink had penetrated the closets and his clothes.
And after we piled some jackets on my lap, I gave in to the call of nature.
"That studio had no heating and sometimes no light in the middle of winter, with us piling on jackets, hats and gloves and straining our eyes while stitching toiles by candlelight," Anna Heinrup recalled.
Circumferential shear keys, or weld beads, are provided around the outside of the piles and the inside of the pile sleeves in jacket structures to transfer forces through the grouted connection.
The parametric study aims to provide guidance to the optimal design of jacket piled foundations: for instance, to examine the critical pile embedment beyond which limited improvement of the bearing capacity of the foundation can be achieved and to define the most unfavorable lateral loading direction.
