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COFFERDAM

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 649 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CLI-COM
COFFERDAM , in
engineering
 . To enable
foundations
  (q.v.) to be laid in a site which is under
water
 , the engineer sometimes surrounds it with an
embankment
  or dam, known as a cofferdam, to form an enclosure from which the
water
  is excluded. Where the
depth
  of water is small and the current slight,
simple
 
clay
  dams may be used, but in
general
  cofferdams consist of two rows of piles, the space between which is packed with
clay
  puddle. The dam must be sufficiently strong to withstand the exterior pressure to which it is exposed when the enclosed space is pumped dry.


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