aardbodempotentiaal

15:41 Mar 18, 2018 

Always glad to keep people out of mischief ;-) Thanks for that. I must have been looking at an old version of the AREI, as the aardbodemspanning definition wasn't in it! At least we got there in the end.

15:31 Mar 18, 2018 

Oh well, at least it has kept us off the streets so to speak :-).

On a different note, aardbodemspanning is an equally odd/uncommon term as aardbodempotentiaal and, again, only seems to be used in the context of the Belgian 'Algemeen Reglement op de Elektrische Installaties' (AREI).

However, based on the definition provided in the AREI (https://tinyurl.com/y8pk2pu9), I agree with you (and your client) that earth surface voltage - or more fully earth-surface voltage to earth (US ground-surface voltage to ground) would be the correct English translation. See also:

earth-surface voltage (to earth)
ground-surface voltage (to ground) (US)
voltage between a specified point on the Earth's surface and reference earth
http://www.electropedia.org/iev/iev.nsf/display?openform&iev...

Idem for your decision to translate aardpotentiaalstijging as earth potential rise (US ground potential rise). The various definitions for the English term that can be found on the internet seem consistent with the definition provided for the Dutch term in the AREI (https://tinyurl.com/y8pk2pu9).

13:15 Mar 17, 2018 

Good grief, I knew it had been a long hard week but this takes the biscuit. I've just realised the term I was querying was actually aardbodemSPANNING, which is why I gave that pdf as the reference, since the diagram I mentioned is very similar to the one in my text. I did use the correct term in the question itself, but was obviously confusing it with aardpotentiaalstijging (which is also in the diagram and is definitely earth/ground potential rise). My apologies if anyone has wasted time over this!! If it's possible to change the glossary entry, can someone please do it?

06:28 Mar 17, 2018 

Current understanding:

aardbodempotentiaal/aardbodemspanning --> earth surface potential/earth surface voltage

aardpotentiaalstijging --> earthing potential rise

With 'earthing voltage / earthing potential (VE)': is the voltage / potential occurring between the earthing system and reference earth at a given value of the earth current flowing through this earthing system.

23:14 Mar 16, 2018 

I believe the PDF referred to by Moira is not the actual source text she is/was working on (see the first sentences of her question).

The term 'aardbodempotentiaal' is used (albeit only once) in art. 99 of the 'Koninklijk besluit tot wijziging van de artikelen 98 en 99 van het Algemeen Reglement op de Elektrische Installaties' (as published on 18 February 2004 in the Belgisch Staatsblad) and this is probably why it's used in Moira's training course materials too.

See also the updates to my reference comment.

17:50 Mar 16, 2018 

In your pdf we have 2 concepts:

the 'aardbodemspanning', which may be 'earth surface potential/voltage' and the 'aardpotentiaalstijging' which may be 'ground potential rise'

your question is 'aardbodempotentiaal', this does not occur in the pdf.

'aardbodemspanning' may be 'earth surface potential/voltage'

17:44 Mar 16, 2018 

I see interesting similarities between http://www.stroomopwaarts.be/sites/stroomopwaarts.be/files/k... and something I found:

GPR = Ground Potential Rise = aardpotentiaalstijging (pdf) ?
ESP = Earth Surface Potential = aardbodemspanning (pdf) ?

The effect of the grid depth is showed in Fig. (5-7), there, an increase of the grid depth results in the decrease in the grid resistance and also decreases the ground potential rise and earth surface potential. As the result the touch voltage decreases with an increase of the grid depth.

http://www.ets.uni-duisburg-essen.de/download/public/Ghoneim...

16:51 Mar 16, 2018 

de bodem is dikker dan het oppervlak = 0 mm, Moira

ondergrond, bovenste laag

In ieder geval gaat het volgens mij hier om de potentiaal in de grond.

16:44 Mar 16, 2018 

Debatable - especially as dikke van dale defines aardbodem as "het op­per­vlak van de aar­de als bo­dem of grond waar­op de men­sen, die­ren en plan­ten le­ven" and EN version in vD is surface/face of the earth, earth's surface ;-)

16:11 Mar 16, 2018 

By the way, note the difference between:

'aardbodem' and 'aardoppervlak'

So from a linguistic perspective it is about 'in the ground' as well, rather than just at the surface.

14:29 Mar 16, 2018 

Potentiaalspreiding

Aardverbindingen die voldoende ver van elkaar verwijderd zijn zodat de max. stroom, die doorheen één ervan vloeit, de potentiaal van de andere niet gevoelig verandert.

Volgens mij gaat het om de potentiaal in de grond/aarde niet specifiek aan het aardoppervlak.

10:14 Mar 12, 2018 

Yes, that is a bit odd (although I have seen worse inconsistencies in technical texts).

10:12 Mar 12, 2018 

but in the same diagram? The diagram cited also contains "aardpotentiaalstijging" (earth/ground potential rise)...

10:09 Mar 12, 2018 

Just guessing, but I suspect the author is just being sloppy and means the same thing with grondpotentiaal, aardpotentiaal and aardbodempotentiaal (i.e. ground potential).