Bulkhead may refer to:

Structural safety devices

Bulkhead (partition) A bulkhead is an upright wall within the hull of a ship or within the fuselage of an airplane. Other kinds of partition elements within a ship are decks and deckheads. Etymology The word ''bulki'' meant "cargo" in Old Norse. During the 15th ...

, 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 A basement or cellar is one or more floors of a building that are completely or partly below the ground floor. It generally is used as a utility space for a building, where such items as the furnace, water heater, breaker panel or fuse box, ...

* 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 The aft pressure bulkhead or rear pressure bulkhead is the rear component of the pressure seal in all aircraft that cruise in a tropopause zone in the earth's atmosphere. It helps maintain pressure when stratocruising and protects the aircraft from ...

, an airtight structural feature of an aircraft

Other uses

* Bulkhead, Ohio, United States, an unincorporated community * Bulkhead (''Transformers''), the name given to several fictional characters in the Transformers universes *

Bulkhead line 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 the jurisdictions of dry land and water authorities, for construction and riparian activit ...

, a method of coastal demarcation used within a legal system * Bulkhead (stability pattern), a stability pattern used to protect distributed software applications {{Disambiguation