pile

pile

¹

1. short for voltaic pile

2. Physics a structure of uranium and a moderator used for producing atomic energy; nuclear reactor

3. Metallurgy an arrangement of wrought-iron bars that are to be heated and worked into a single bar

4. the point of an arrow

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pile

²

a long column of timber, concrete, or steel that is driven into the ground to provide a foundation for a vertical load (a bearing pile) or a group of such columns to resist a horizontal load from earth or water pressure (a sheet pile)

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pile

³

1. Textiles

a. the yarns in a fabric that stand up or out from the weave, as in carpeting, velvet, etc.

b. one of these yarns

2. soft fine hair, fur, wool, etc.

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Pile

One of a series of large timbers or steel sections driven into soft ground down to bedrock to provide a solid foundation for the superstructure of a building.

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pile

[pīl]

(engineering)

A long, heavy timber, steel, or reinforced concrete post that has been driven, jacked, jetted, or cast vertically into the ground to support a load.

(nucleonics)

nuclear reactor

(textiles)

Loops on a fabric surface.

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pile

1. A concrete, steel, or wood column, usually less than 2 ft (0.6 m) in diameter, which is driven or otherwise introduced into the soil, usually to carry a vertical load or to provide lateral support.

2.See carpet pile.

3. A term used to indicate the number of rooms in a house from front to rear; for example, a double-pile house has two rooms between the façade and the rear wall of the house.

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PILE

(1)

Polytechnic's Instructional Language for Educators. Similar in use to an enhanced PILOT, but structurally more like Pascal with Awk-like associative arrays (optionally stored on disk). Distributed to about 50 sites by Initial Teaching Alphabet Foundation for Apple II and CP/M.

["A Universal Computer Aided Instruction System," Henry G. Dietz & Ronald J Juels, Proc Natl Educ Computing Conf '83, pp.279-282].

PILE

(language, music)

["PILE _ A Language for Sound Synthesis", P. Berg, Computer Music Journal 3.1, 1979].

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Pile

 

a structural unit (pole or balk) that is completely or partially introduced into the ground. In most cases, piles are used in pile foundations, where they transfer a load from the structure to the soil. In addition to piles used in foundations, sheet piles, chiefly of metal, are also used in sheet-pile walls to form, for example, temporary fencing in the excavation of foundations or cofferdams in certain hydraulic-engineering installations.

Piles are classified according to methods of piling. Driven piles are prefabricated of reinforced concrete, steel, or wood and are driven into the soil by pile drivers, vibratory pile drivers, or vibratory jacking drivers. Drill-filling piles are made of concrete or reinforced concrete and are cast in place. Driven piles of reinforced concrete are most common in the USSR, accounting for more than 90 percent of the piles in use in 1973.

Reinforced-concrete driven piles usually have a square cross section. They may be solid with transverse reinforcement (3–20 m long) or solid without transverse reinforcement (3–12 m), or they may contain a cylindrical hole (3–8 m). Reinforced-concrete piles can also be round and hollow (diameter 400–800 mm, length 4–12 m). Concrete tubular piles 1,000–3,000 mm in diameter and 6–12 m long are also used. In special cases, such as tower structures, threaded steel piles are used.

With drill-filling piles, concrete is poured into a drilled shaft. The diameter of such piles is 500–1,200 mm, and the length is 10–30 m and more. To increase the load-carrying capacity, cast-in-place piles can be built with an enlarged base. Such piles are most frequently used for large loads on foundations or in cases when the layer of compact soil is deep.

REFERENCE

Osnovaniia ifundamenty: (Kratkiikurs). Moscow, 1970.

IU. G. TROFIMENKOV

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.