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French to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Geology / Underground cable laying | |||||||
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4 +1 | cuboid angular aggregate |
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2 | highly sharply angular materials |
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highly sharply angular materials Explanation: Hello, That's how I read "très charpentés" (very sharply cut/defined) Sharply angular materials (like manufactured sand or stone dust) are more prone ... Sharply angular materials can fit tightly together and have smaller void ... http://books.google.com/books?id=TdTCPCce1msC&pg=PA269&lpg=P... I hope this helps. |
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cuboid angular aggregate Explanation: I'll work on a better word than "cuboid" later. This is just to explain what I think they mean. Aggregate can be given an "angularity number" (see Scott/Penguin Dict of Civ. Eng. for example). The lower the angularity number of an aggregate, the more workable (fluid) a concrete made with it will be. "Good concreting aggregates have a number less than 11". The angularity number of a perfect sphere is 0. For backfill you want a high angularity number, an "angular aggregate", one that will lock together and resist compression. Running a truck over a metre-deep bed of ball bearings would be like driving over quicksand ... However, you don't want your backfill aggregate to be too slender (elongation index) or it it is likely to snap under pressure and cause subsidence. So ideally you want an aggregate that is basically cuboid but with plenty of angles, i.e. not simply six plane faces. Like brown sugar lumps. Ah, brown sugar .... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day18 mins (2010-12-24 22:23:12 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Well-graded? I had considered but discounted the possibility that charpenté referred to not a single or each individual grading of aggregate but to the mass of different aggregate grades, in which case "well-graded" would work. However since we have matériaux roulés it would seem we are talking about "individual" aggregate. Were we talking about the body of blended aggregate, would it not be matériau in the singular? |
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