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test pile

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test pile [′test ‚pīl]
(civil engineering)
A pile equipped with a platform on which a load of sand or pig iron is placed in order to determine the load a pile can support (usually twice the working load) without settling.

test pile
A pile, 1 used to determine the load that it can support without settling; this determination usually is made by placing heavy weights on a platform mounted on the top of the pile.


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Far more important than the runs Hussain scored was his resilience in leading England from bottom of the Test pile after losing 2-1 to the Kiwis in 1999 and the way he conducted himself in the face of incredible pressure over whether England should go to Zimbabwe for a 2003 World Cup match.
five safety ladders on the face of the dock, aerial photography of the port district and 2-foot contour mapping, a hydrographic survey of the seabed in front of the dock, a tideland survey, test pile program, sand and gravel exploration and geotechnical report, expansion of the port district from 5,000 to 8,000 acres (12.
12) with installation of concrete test piles sunk deep into the sediments underlying the station site.
 
 
 
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