Bulkhead may refer to:
Structural safety devices
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Bulkhead (partition), a wall within the hull of a ship, vehicle, or container
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Torpedo bulkhead
A torpedo bulkhead is a type of naval armour common on the more heavily armored warships, especially battleships and battlecruisers of the early 20th century. It is designed to keep the ship afloat even if the hull is struck underneath the belt ar ...
, 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
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Bulkhead (barrier)
A bulkhead is a retaining wall, such as a bulkhead within a ship or a watershed retaining wall. It may also be used in mines to contain flooding.
Coastal bulkheads are most often referred to as seawalls, bulkheading, or riprap revetments. T ...
, 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
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Bulkhead flatcar, a type of rolling stock designed with sturdy end-walls to prevent loads from shifting past the ends of the car
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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 fro ...
, an airtight structural feature of an aircraft
Other uses
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Bulkhead, Ohio, United States, an unincorporated community
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Bulkhead (''Transformers''), the name given to several fictional characters in the Transformers universes
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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
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Bulkhead (stability pattern), a stability pattern used to protect distributed software applications
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