Talk:Deep foundation

message: Should this article be called Deep Foundations instead of Pile? --Tom Bonnie 22:00, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps, but laymen are more likely to look for the term pile than the term deep foundations. It may be better to create a redirect from Deep foundation and Piling to Pile. Argyriou (talk) 23:43, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Redirects created --Tom Bonnie 04:24, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

text: Redirect is not wise. Deep foundations and piles ARE NOT the same thing. Piles are a category in deep foundations. There are multiple different types of deep foundations including piles, drilled shafts, caissons and piers. ~Zuejay 13:37, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rename/Move Article

message: * Would it be a good idea to possible split this page into a couple of different pages? This is a page that covers a lot of information including information that a person wanting information may not think to just look for pile.  if someone is searching fro driven pile or drilled pile they get no information because it is a sub category of pile and they simply leave Wikipedia and search for the information else where. Is there anything that can be done so the search is less general and more critical? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pdigrl (talk • contribs) 13:16, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, we can create redirects. Just create the page and only put #REDIRECT page name. This allows us to have all the information on one page and also help people who search under other names. Basar 18:38, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

text: *This article is begging for a splittin'. There are too many subjects being covered in and some of them, like the retaining walls, don't even belong in here. --Mecanismo | Talk 00:34, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Split page

message: It seems to me that the sheet piling, soldier pile, and pile wall sections would be more appropriate in the article retaining wall. These things seem to be more of an application of previously discussed pile types rather than a pile type itself. Basar 05:01, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There should be *some* discussion here. As retaining wall elements, the pile part is both wall and wall foundation, and thus belongs in both articles. Argyriou (talk) 23:06, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Alright, that sounds fine. I'm not exactly sure how to organize this stuff though. Right now the organization seems a little . . . imperfect. I'm also thinking that with all this content, we might be able to split some of the sections off to new articles . . . someday. Basar 05:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relation to retaining walls 

message: You may be interested in incorporating reference to a 19th century patent taken out by John Dolbeer for an apparatus for "steaming piles". Rather than a drastic treatment for a medical condition (sorry, my British sense of humour...) this appears to be a means of treating timber piles against insect infestation, in situ. (The external link to the patent text is in his article.)
Incidentally, I generally concur with the comments above regarding article split, etc. This should become a master article with numerous sub-articles, splitting-off large sections whenever large enough. I needed a link for a timber pile (hence the comment made above) and had to use Deep foundation#Timber, which is not intuitive. This is way off my usual subject areas, but to me a 'pile', in this context, is a physical 'thing' -- in the case of a timber pile, it's simply a dirty-great long bit of wood, which only becomes a "deep foundation" once it's actually pushed into the ground and is used to support something: before that it is still a 'pile', so we should be able to link to it as such.
EdJogg (talk) 08:37, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timber piles + a ref for you 

message: Is this trying to say "...and filling it with mass concrete or reinforced concrete."?  Paulburnett (talk) 19:38, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  First paragraph, last sentence: "...and filling it with concrete, mass or reinforced." 

message: There are quite a number of Wikipedia articles that refer to "monopile foundation" -- especially related to near-shore, fixed-bottom wind turbines -- but I can't seem to find any WP article (e.g., monopile, or monopile foundation, as of October 2009, both come up as red links) that describes a monopile foundation.  Might it be possible for someone who is a geotechnical engineer expert to add a few words or a section to either this article (or Foundation (engineering) if that would be better) in order to describe what one is and how they work?  I see there are a lot of Google hits but an expert could probably best summarize the important ideas for a paragraph in the appropriate WP article on underwater geotechnical engineering, or Deep foundation, or Foundation (engineering). N2e (talk) 21:55, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Here is a good source for the construction process of a subsea monopile foundation for an offshore wind farm: 
Constructing a turbine foundation Horns Rev project, Elsam monopile foundation construction process, accessed 2010-04-12] Hope this is useful to other editors and readers. N2e (talk) 19:08, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Monopile foundations? -- not mentioned in the article 

message: Could a knowledgeable editor add to the intro to this article a sentence about typical usage?  The photos all show bridges or large buildings (thus implying that's the main usage), but is this type of foundation ever used for, say, a typical suburban single-family home?  Comet Tuttle (talk) 22:44, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  When are they used? 

message: There is a decent source of present and future foundation designs for subsea applications, especially offshore wind turbine applications, here:  
http://offshorewind.net/Other_Pages/Turbine-Foundations.html
Many of the images are reportedly from the US Government agency NREL, which should make them freely usable on Wikipedia.  Is someone reading this Wikipedia-image-savvy and could possible obtain these images from the US government and put them up on Wikipedia?  I've added a reqimage tag. N2e (talk) 19:48, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subsea foundations -- image requested 

message: Monopile foundation is listed as a subsection of the section Driven foundations.  This is incorrect.  Large diameter monopile foundations may be driven, or rather a part of the case may be driven, but they need not be.  A monopile foundation is still a monopile when no driving is utilized.  
However, given the current section organization of the article, I'm not sure where to put monopile foundation without reworking the section headings.  So for now, will just note it is erroneously placed.  N2e (talk) 01:49, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  A monopile foundation is not  a "driven foundation" 

message: This is probably not the best foundation on which to begin our lead.  It feels laughably redudant, and might be improved with some combination of rewording, examples, and/or some sort of indication of "how deep is deep and not shallow?"  I'm not an expert on the subject, so I'll leave this to more knowledgeable hands. --j⚛e deckertalk 20:11, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that does not seem an adequate encyclopedic description.  However, since that was apparently the situation a year ago, I'll start a new section to discuss how we find the article today. N2e (talk) 17:04, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead (2014) 

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