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solicitaciones (in this context)

English translation: loads

17:50 Apr 13, 2010
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Transport / Transportation / Shipping / Rail transport network construction
Spanish term or phrase: solicitaciones (in this context)
SPAIN: From a text describing rail track construction. Seems out of place in the context, where it appears to mean stresses/strains:
"Las principales funciones del conjunto sujeción-traviesa son las siguientes:

Aportar una rigidez vertical determinada a la vía.
Asegurar la estabilidad de la vía mediante la adecuada absorción y transmisión de los esfuerzos verticales, transversales y longitudinales.
Asegurar el correcto apriete del carril.
Facilitar el asiento del carril.
Trasmitir al balasto las ***solicitaciones*** producidas por el tráfico."
neilmac
Spain
Local time: 13:25
English translation:loads
Explanation:
the loads exerted by passing trains
Have no time to find references but trust me !

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Note added at 4 mins (2010-04-13 17:54:18 GMT)
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PS the word can be "stresses" etc. but railway people tend to talk more about "loads"
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4 +4loads
polyglot45
5 +1stresses
Henry Hinds
4 +1demands
David Hollywood


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
loads


Explanation:
the loads exerted by passing trains
Have no time to find references but trust me !

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Note added at 4 mins (2010-04-13 17:54:18 GMT)
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PS the word can be "stresses" etc. but railway people tend to talk more about "loads"

polyglot45
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 48
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Asker: It must be that from the context but it seems an odd choice of lexis for load/strain... etc. Thanks for the help :-)


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lerber: yes, I agree with "loads" - it is the term we use in physics to describe the combination of weight and strain.
12 mins
agree  MPGS: :)
27 mins
agree  patinba: Maybe better as "Load", but yes.
5 hrs
agree  momo savino
14 hrs
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
demands


Explanation:
:)

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Note added at 6 mins (2010-04-13 17:56:57 GMT)
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not all that technical but might fit ....

David Hollywood
Local time: 08:25
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 79

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agree  Eileen Banks
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stresses


Explanation:
But do not trust me. Check it out yourself.

Henry Hinds
United States
Local time: 05:25
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 187

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  traductorchile: With the translation and the explanation. "of mechanical resistance to various stresses (compression, traction, buckling, torsion, resistance to impacts). "
25 mins
  -> Gracias, Traductor, saludos a Chile.
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