For years the composite industry and its material suppliers have been working to develop pultruded composite sheet piles that could replace wood, steel and concrete structures in commercial sea walls, ...

Because they offer longer service lives and reduced maintenance compared to steel, composite materials are becoming popular reinforcements for structures found on the seafront. Here, Francesco Ierullo ...

Wood is a great material for many applications, including marine pilings and fenders — after all, the Italian city of Venice is supported on a forest of wooden pilings, some nearly a thousand years ...

A new engineered repair system for seawalls is based on fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) technology that has been used for several years to repair and strengthen worn and damaged marine piles made of ...