Sheet piling is an earth retention and excavation support technique that retains soil, using steel sheet sections with interlocking edges. Sheet piles are installed in sequence to design depth along the planned excavation perimeter or seawall alignment.
Replication (statistics) In engineering, science, and statistics, replication is the repetition of an experimental condition so that the variability associated with the phenomenon can be estimated. ASTM, in standard E1847, defines replication as the repetition of the set of all the treatment combinations to be compared in an experiment.
replication. 1  1. a turning back of a part so as to form a duplication. 2  2. repetition of an experiment to ensure accuracy. 3  3. the process of duplicating or reproducing, as replication of an exact copy of a polynucleotide strand of DNA or RNA.