Pile screens (Containment)
Introduction
Pile screens are a type of screen "Screen (retaining structure)"), or flexible containment structure, commonly used, although not only, in civil engineering, in buildings where the ground is very soft, with little cohesion, in danger of collapsing or has a high water table.
They are used if excavation of the trench is difficult. That is to say:.
Types of pile screens
The types of pile screens, according to their arrangement, are:.