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Look up bulkhead in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bulkhead may refer to: Bulkhead (partition), a wall within the hull of a ship, vehicle, or container

compartments using bulkheads. As wood began to be replaced by iron in European ships in the 18th century, new structures, like bulkheads, started to become

used in mines to contain flooding. Coastal bulkheads are most often referred to as seawalls, bulkheading, or riprap revetments. These manmade structures

Bulkhead line is an officially set line along a shoreline, usually beyond the dry land, to demark a territory allowable to be treated as dry land, to separate

bulkhead can be wholly replaced. During the twenty-first century, various parties became increasingly interested in developing aft pressure bulkheads

featured three armored bulkheads layered between three liquid-filled compartments, and placed between an empty void and unarmored bulkhead on either side. For

compartments is called compartmentation. Bulkheads were known to the ancient Greeks, who employed bulkheads in triremes to support the back of rams. By

doors or 'collision bulkhead doors' in place behind the loading ramp. These doors are an upper extension of the collision bulkhead and act as a secondary

regardless. If a ship is fitted with longitudinal bulkheads (running fore and aft) as well as transverse bulkheads, flooding along one side of the ship can cause

Boeing Renton Factory for final assembly. Bulkhead flatcars are designed with sturdy end-walls (bulkheads) to prevent loads from shifting past the ends