Railroad Ties and Steel H-Piles
Wave Height Range: Below five feet.
Steel H-piles can be driven at regular intervals and railroad ties placed between the flanges of
adjacent piles to form a bulkhead (Figure 38). The toe of the structure should be protected by armor
stone, and proper filtering and granular backfill are needed behind the structure. A 12-inch steel channel,
welded to the top of the H-piles, serves to align the piles and retain the railroad ties. The structure has
performed well and would be particularly useful where subsurface rock prevents driving sheet piling.
However, its cost is probably higher than other effective devices.
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