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microbillage

English translation: microblasting

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French term or phrase:microbillage
English translation:microblasting
Entered by: mohanv

15:23 Oct 20, 2010
French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Engineering: Industrial
French term or phrase: microbillage
I am translating a text about the manufacture of alloy sheets and there is a bulletpointed list of surface treatments carried out on the sheets. I am unsure how to translate "microbillage". I believe it to be similar to sandblasting only with using small pieces of other materials like glass but I am not sure.
Nicola Holmes
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:29
microbead blasted
Explanation:
microbead blasted
Ref:
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/french_to_english/metallurgy_casti...

Also
Glass bead blasting
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mohanv
India
Local time: 18:59
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4 +2microbead blasted
mohanv
4shot peening
David Goward


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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
microbead blasted


Explanation:
microbead blasted
Ref:
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/french_to_english/metallurgy_casti...

Also
Glass bead blasting


mohanv
India
Local time: 18:59
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in TamilTamil
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Bourth (X): Or simply "microblasting" (increasingly common).
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agree  mchd: microblasting
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
shot peening


Explanation:
See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_peening

http://www.estoppey-addor.ch/index.php?aid=42

David Goward
France
Local time: 15:29
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 44

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  chris collister: As the word implies, "shot" is much bigger and heavier than a tiny glass bead. The purpose of shot peening is surface work hardening, but not, I think, the purpose of bead or sand-blasting
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