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16:10 Feb 15, 2017 |
French to English translations [PRO] Construction / Civil Engineering / restoration | |||||||
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| Selected response from: B D Finch France Local time: 08:22 | ||||||
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4 +1 | repairs (to rebars/reinforcing bars) |
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repairs (to rebars/reinforcing bars) Explanation: faculty.washington.edu/nemati/shilshole.pdf Project: Evaluation and repair methods to restore structural integrity of ... to corrosion of the reinforcing bars and to proposed repair methods to. https://www.sodamco-weber.com/technical-concrete-repair/help... (https://goo.gl/vpnb82) "Step 2: • Clean steel reinforcement with mechanical wire-brushing or by sand blasting. • In case the reinforcing bars are corroded and have lost more than 25% of their diameter, they have to be cut and removed. Step 3: • In such event, removed steel bars should be replaced with new steel bars of the same diameter either by respecting the overlap length or by welding 100 mm length to the existing steel" -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2017-02-15 19:35:09 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- You don't say how old the structure is, but this may either be original iron or steel reinforcement or reinforcement added in previous restoration work. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2017-02-15 19:42:10 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- https://www.researchgate.net/.../233302420_fig8_Fig... Masonry pillars of main nave: steel hoop reinforcement and. ... Masonry pillars of main nave: steel hoop reinforcement and replacement of natural stones. ... Full-text available · Article · Mar 2007 · International Journal of Architectural Heritage ... http://www.heritagedaily.com/2014/12/gothic-cathedrals-blend... "Using radiocarbon dating on metal found in Gothic cathedrals, an interdisciplinary team has shown, for the first time through absolute dating, that iron was used to reinforce stone from the construction phase. "... In Beauvais, a number of the metallic tie-rods supporting the flying buttresses bear graffiti from the eighteenth century, potentially indicating that the metal may have been a later addition. However certain pieces proved to date back to the beginning of the construction process (around 1225-1240 AD), suggesting that in order to succeed in erecting the world’s highest Gothic choir (46.3 meters), iron was combined with stone from the initial design phase" |
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