| IPC 7 English version |
 E02D - E02D 9/04 |
| E02D01100-E02D03700 |
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| SECTION E – FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS |
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| E 02 | HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL-SHIFTING |
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| E 02 D | FOUNDATIONS; EXCAVATIONS; EMBANKMENTS (specially adapted for hydraulic engineering E02B); UNDERGROUND OR UNDERWATER STRUCTURES [6] |
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11/ | 00 | Methods or apparatus for both placing and removing sheet pile bulkheads, piles, or mould-pipes (features relating to placing only E02D 7/00, to removing only E02D 9/00) |
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13/ | 00 | Accessories for placing or removing piles or bulkheads |
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13/ | 02 | . | specially adapted for placing or removing bulkheads |
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13/ | 04 | . | Guide devices; Guide frames |
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13/ | 06 | . | for observation while placing |
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13/ | 08 | . | Removing obstacles |
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13/ | 10 | . | Follow-blocks of pile-drivers or like devices |
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15/ | 00 | Handling building or like materials for hydraulic engineering or foundations (conveying or working-up concrete or similar masses in general E04G 21/02) |
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15/ | 02 | . | Handling of bulk concrete specially for foundation purposes |
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15/ | 04 | . | . | Placing concrete in mould-pipes, pile tubes, boreholes, or narrow shafts |
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15/ | 06 | . | . | Placing concrete under water |
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15/ | 08 | . | Sinking workpieces into water or soil |
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15/ | 10 | . | Placing gravel or like material under water |
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17/ | 00 | Excavations; Bordering of excavations; Making embankments (soil shifting apparatus E02F; earth drilling E21) |
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17/ | 02 | . | Foundation pits |
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17/ | 04 | . | . | Bordering or stiffening the sides of foundation pits |
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17/ | 06 | . | Foundation ditches or narrow shafts |
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17/ | 08 | . | . | Bordering or stiffening the sides of ditches or narrow shafts for foundations |
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17/ | 10 | . | . | Covering trenches for foundations |
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17/ | 12 | . | . | Back-filling of foundation trenches or ditches |
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17/ | 13 | . | Foundation slots; Implements for making these slots |
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17/ | 16 | . | Loosening of soil or rock, under water (for correcting streams E02B 3/02; by dredgers or excavators E02F) |
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17/ | 18 | . | Making embankments (E02D 17/20 takes precedence) |
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17/ | 20 | . | Securing of slopes or inclines |
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19/ | 00 | Keeping dry foundation sites or other areas in the ground (sheet piles or bulkheads E02D 5/02) |
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19/ | 02 | . | Restraining of open water |
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19/ | 04 | . | . | by coffer-dams |
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19/ | 06 | . | Restraining of underground water |
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19/ | 08 | . | . | by employing open ditches arranged below the level of the water |
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19/ | 10 | . | . | by lowering level of ground water |
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19/ | 12 | . | . | by damming or interrupting the passage of underground water |
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19/ | 14 | . | . | . | by freezing the soil (in connection with sinking shafts E21D 1/12) |
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19/ | 16 | . | . | . | by placing or applying sealing substances (consolidating by placing solidifying or pore-filling substances in the soil E02D 3/12) |
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19/ | 18 | . | . | . | by making use of sealing aprons (sealings or joints for engineering work E02B 3/16) |
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19/ | 20 | . | . | . | by displacing the water, e.g. by compressed air |
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19/ | 22 | . | Lining sumps in trenches |
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23/ | 00 | Caissons; Construction or placing of caissons (tunnels submerged into or built in open water E02D 29/063) [6] |
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23/ | 02 | . | Caissons able to be floated on water and to be lowered into water in situ |
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23/ | 04 | . | Pneumatic caissons |
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23/ | 06 | . | . | Bringing persons or material into, or out of, compressed air caissons |
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23/ | 08 | . | Lowering or sinking caissons |
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23/ | 10 | . | . | Caissons filled with compressed air |
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23/ | 12 | . | . | Inclined lowering |
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23/ | 14 | . | . | Decreasing the skin friction while lowering |
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23/ | 16 | . | Jointing caissons to the foundation soil, specially to uneven foundation soil |
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25/ | 00 | Joining caissons or like sunk units to each other under water |
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27/ | 00 | Foundations as substructures |
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27/ | 01 | . | Flat foundations |
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27/ | 02 | . | . | Flat foundations without substantial excavation (E02D 27/04, E02D 27/08 take precedence) |
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27/ | 04 | . | . | in water or on quicksand |
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27/ | 06 | . | . | . | Floating caisson foundations |
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27/ | 08 | . | . | Reinforcements for flat foundations |
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27/ | 10 | . | Deep foundations |
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27/ | 12 | . | . | Pile foundations |
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27/ | 14 | . | . | . | Pile framings |
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27/ | 16 | . | . | . | Foundations formed of separate piles |
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27/ | 18 | . | . | Foundations formed by making use of caissons |
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27/ | 20 | . | . | Caisson foundations combined with pile foundations |
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27/ | 22 | . | . | Caisson foundations made by starting from fixed or floating artificial islands by using protective bulkheads |
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27/ | 24 | . | Foundations constructed by making use of diving-bells (equipment for dwelling or working under water B63C 11/00) |
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27/ | 26 | . | Compacting soil locally before forming foundations; Construction of foundation structures by forcing binding substances into gravel fillings (consolidating foundation soil in general E02D 3/02 to E02D 3/12) |
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27/ | 28 | . | Stressing the soil or the foundation structure while forming foundations |
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27/ | 30 | . | Foundations made with permanent use of sheet pile bulkheads, walls of planks, or sheet piling boxes |
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27/ | 32 | . | Foundations for special purposes |
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27/ | 34 | . | . | Foundations for sinking or earthquake territories (building constructions with protection arrangements against earthquakes E04H 9/02) |
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27/ | 35 | . | . | Foundations formed in frozen ground, e.g. in permafrost soil [3] |
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27/ | 36 | . | . | Foundations formed in moors or bogs |
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27/ | 38 | . | . | Foundations for large tanks, e.g. oil tanks |
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27/ | 40 | . | . | Foundations for dams across valleys or for dam constructions |
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27/ | 42 | . | . | Foundations for poles, masts, or chimneys |
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27/ | 44 | . | . | Foundations for machines, engines, or ordnance (special layout of foundations with respect to machinery to be supported F16M 9/00) |
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27/ | 46 | . | . | Foundations for supply conduits or other canals |
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27/ | 48 | . | . | Foundations inserted underneath existing buildings or constructions |
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27/ | 50 | . | . | Anchored foundations |
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27/ | 52 | . | . | Submerged foundations |
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29/ | 00 | Underground or underwater structures (underground tanks B65D 88/76; hydraulic engineering, e.g. sealings or joints, E02B; underground garages E04H 6/00; underground air-raid shelters E04H 9/12; burial vaults E04H 13/00); Retaining walls [6] |
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29/ | 02 | . | Retaining or protecting walls (piers or quay walls E02B 3/06) |
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29/ | 045 | . | Underground structures, e.g. tunnels or galleries, built in the open air or by methods involving disturbance of the ground surface all along the location line; Methods of making them [6] |
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29/ | 05 | . | . | at least part of the cross-section being constructed in an open excavation or from the ground surface, e.g. assembled in a trench [6] |
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29/ | 055 | . | . | . | further excavation of the cross-section proceeding underneath an already installed part of the structure, e.g. the roof of a tunnel [6] |
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29/ | 063 | . | Tunnels submerged into, or built in, open water (construction or placing of caissons in general E02D 23/00; joining caissons to each other under water, in general E02D 25/00) [6] |
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29/ | 067 | . | . | Floating tunnels; Submerged bridge-like tunnels, i.e. tunnels supported by piers or the like above the water-bed (pontoons or floating bridges E01D 15/14) [6] |
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29/ | 07 | . | . | Tunnels or shuttering therefor preconstructed as a whole or continuously made, and moved into place on the water-bed, e.g. into a preformed trench [6] |
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29/ | 073 | . | . | Tunnels or shuttering therefor assembled from sections individually sunk onto, or laid on, the water-bed, e.g. in a preformed trench (caisson-type sections lowered onto the water-bed E02D 29/077) [6] |
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29/ | 077 | . | . | Tunnels at least partially built beneath the water-bed characterised by being made by methods involving disturbance thereof all along the location line, e.g. by cut-and-cover or caisson methods [6] |
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29/ | 09 | . | Constructions or methods of constructing, in water, not otherwise provided for [6] |
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29/ | 12 | . | Manhole shafts; Other inspection or access chambers; Accessories therefor (for underground tanks B65D 90/10; for sewerage E03F 5/02) [6] |
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29/ | 14 | . | . | Covers for manholes or the like; Frames for covers [6] |
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29/ | 16 | . | Arrangement or construction of joints in foundation structures (sealing joints not restricted to foundation structures E04B 1/68) |
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31/ | 00 | Protective arrangements for foundations or foundation structures; Ground foundation measures for protecting the soil or the subsoil water, e.g. preventing or counteracting oil pollution (spillage retaining means for tanks B65D 90/24) |
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31/ | 02 | . | against ground humidity or ground water |
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31/ | 04 | . | . | Watertight packings for use under hydraulic pressure |
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31/ | 06 | . | against corrosion by soil or water |
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31/ | 08 | . | against transmission of vibrations or movements in the foundation soil |
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31/ | 10 | . | against soil pressure or hydraulic pressure |
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31/ | 12 | . | . | against upward hydraulic pressure |
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31/ | 14 | . | . | against frost heaves in soil [3] |
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33/ | 00 | Testing foundations or foundation structures (testing methods or apparatus, see the relevant subclasses of class G01; testing structures or apparatus as regards function, in general, G01M; investigating or analysing materials by determining their chemical or physical properties, in general G01N) |
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35/ | 00 | Straightening, lifting, or lowering of foundation structures or of constructions erected on foundations |
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37/ | 00 | Repair of damaged foundations or foundation structures |
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| E02D - E02D 9/04 |  |
