title: Bulkhead
text: # Bulkhead
  
  Bulkhead may refer to:
  
  ## Structural safety devices
  
  * 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
  
  * 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
  