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moment

English translation: moment

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French term or phrase:moment
English translation:moment
Entered by: EirTranslations

11:07 Oct 22, 2018
French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Engineering (general) / welds / frames for a substation
French term or phrase: moment
In this context, many thanks.

Excentricités
Les assemblages de diagonales doivent être détaillés de façon que leurs excentricités soient réduites au minimum; leurs lignes de trusquinage doivent être intersectées à l'intérieur des membrures principales.
Autrement, le moment créé par l'excentricité doit être considéré dans les calculs.
Il est permis d'utiliser des boulons communs à 2 diagonales pour les attaches de ces dernières à la membrure principale.
Cependant, le boulon commun doit travailler en double cisaillement c'est-à-dire que les 2 diagonales ne doivent pas être connectées sur la même face de l'aile de la cornière principale.
EirTranslations
Ireland
Local time: 20:08
moment
Explanation:
Tout court !

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_(physics)
"In physics, moment of force (often just moment) is a measure of its tendency to cause a body to rotate about a specific point or axis. In this concept the moment arm, the distance from the axis of rotation, plays an important role. ... In physics, a moment is a combination of a physical quantity and a distance."
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B D Finch
France
Local time: 21:08
Grading comment
thx
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Summary of answers provided
4 +4moment
B D Finch
4 -1shear and bending moment
SafeTex
4 -2torque
Kartik Isaac
Summary of reference entries provided
moments
Johannes Gleim

  

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2 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -2
torque


Explanation:
Torque seems to be the right term in this context.

Kartik Isaac
Switzerland
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 10

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  B D Finch: It isn't the right term.
1 hr
disagree  Tony M: In this sort of context, a '(bending) moment' is not the same as 'torque'
1 day 4 hrs
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42 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
shear and bending moment


Explanation:
Hello

As per Isaak's answer, "moment" often = "torque" but we are certainly not talking about car gears here and I don't think we are talking about tightening bolts either, although they occur in the text just two sentences later.
So I feel that the "moment" is more the "shear force" (not to be confused with "sheer force")
See my references for more detail.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shear_and_moment_diagram
    https://nptel.ac.in/courses/112106141/Pdfs/4_2.pdf
SafeTex
France
Local time: 21:08
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Daryo: "shear force" and "bending moment" are two different concepts - two translations for one term?
6 hrs
  -> Hi Daryo: I did hesitate on this but on reading the wiki page, both forces can be measured at a given point and was not sure if the text just meant one force and if so which one.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
moment


Explanation:
Tout court !

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moment_(physics)
"In physics, moment of force (often just moment) is a measure of its tendency to cause a body to rotate about a specific point or axis. In this concept the moment arm, the distance from the axis of rotation, plays an important role. ... In physics, a moment is a combination of a physical quantity and a distance."

B D Finch
France
Local time: 21:08
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 121
Grading comment
thx

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  John Fossey: The moment results in a torque but is not the torque itself.
1 hr
  -> Thanks John
agree  Johannes Gleim: The moment is the moment in both languages in physics, not torque. See Ref. comment.
2 hrs
  -> Thanks Johannes
agree  Daryo
5 hrs
  -> Thanks Daryo
agree  Tony M
1 day 2 hrs
  -> Thanks Tony
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Reference comments


3 hrs
Reference: moments

Reference information:
Domain Earth sciences
en
Definition is equal to the algebraic sum of all moments to the right of the section of a beam(or to the left of the section)
Definition Ref. Eur.Conv.for Constr.Steelwork
Term bending moment
Reliability 3 (Reliable)
Term flexural moment
Reliability 3 (Reliable)

fr
Definition la somme algébrique des moments de toutes les chsrges et réactions à gauche(ou à droite)d'une section transversale d'une poutre fléchie
Term moment de flexion
Reliability 3 (Reliable)
Term moment fléchissant
Reliability 3 (Reliable)
http://iate.europa.eu/SearchByQuery.do?method=searchDetail&l...

Domain TRANSPORT, Earth sciences, Land transport
Domain note aerodynamics
en
Term torsion moment curve
Reliability 3 (Reliable)
Term Ref. Aérospatiale,Aerospace Dict.,Paris,1984

fr
Term courbe de moments de torsion
Reliability 3 (Reliable)
Term courbe des moments de torsion
Reliability 3 (Reliable)
http://iate.europa.eu/SearchByQuery.do?method=searchDetail&l...

Johannes Gleim
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 35
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