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diagonal crack [2 records]

Record 1 2017-03-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Painting (Arts)
  • Restoration of Works of Art (Museums and Heritage)
DEF

[A type of mechanical crack] often found at the corners of paintings ... that can result from inappropriate keying out or from dropping the painting on its corner.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Peinture (Arts)
  • Restauration d'œuvres d'art (Muséologie et Patrimoine)
DEF

Craquelure de tension se formant souvent dans les coins des peintures [qui peut] être causée par un réglage de la tension de la toile inadéquat ou par un choc subi par le coin de la peinture.

Spanish

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Record 2 2000-01-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Maintenance
  • Concrete Construction
DEF

Crack or break approximately at right angles to the pavement centerline.

CONT

Transverse cracks will occur at intervals of about 4.5 to 7.5 m. in an unjointed highway pavement, with a longitudinal crack spacing that would vary somewhat depending on concrete properties and climatic conditions.

OBS

transverse cracks are further subdivided into full (across both lanes of two-lane road), half (across only one lane), and partial (across less than three-quarters lane width).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Entretien des routes
  • Bétonnage
DEF

Fissure [...] perpendiculaire à la route [qui] la traverse complètement ou en partie.

CONT

Des joints sont pratiqués dans un revêtement en béton pour contrôler la fissuration transversale et longitudinale dues aux changements de volume du béton et à l'effet combiné des contraintes et des charges.

CONT

[Le glissement] commence par une fissuration diagonale au droit du passage des roues et se poursuit par des fissures paraboliques.

OBS

[Les fissures transversales] sont notées généralement à intervalles irréguliers; mais dans certains cas, pour une cause encore imprécise, elles se forment à intervalles très réguliers.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Mantenimiento de carreteras
  • Hormigonado
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