Bulkhead
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Bulkhead may refer to:
Structural safety devices
[edit]- Bulkhead (partition), a wall within the hull of a ship, vehicle, or container
- Torpedo bulkhead, a type of armor plate or protective covering designed to keep a ship afloat even if the hull is struck by a shell or by a torpedo
- Bulkhead (barrier), a retaining wall used as a form of coastal management, akin to a seawall, or as a structural device such as a bulkhead partition
- Bulkhead door, an angled door covering the exterior stairwell of a basement
- Bulkhead flatcar, a type of rolling stock designed with sturdy end-walls to prevent loads from shifting past the ends of the car
- Rear pressure bulkhead, an airtight structural feature of an aircraft
Other uses
[edit]- Bulkhead, Ohio, United States, an unincorporated community
- Bulkhead (Transformers), the name given to several fictional characters in the Transformers universes
- Bulkhead line, a method of coastal demarcation used within a legal system
- Bulkhead (stability pattern), a stability pattern used to protect distributed software applications