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CENTRAL PLANT [2 records]

Record 1 2006-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Construction Equipment
CONT

Flexible pavements. ... When a plant-mix design is used, ... the aggregate and bituminous materials are mixed at a central plant, trucked to the job, and then spread or placed with a paving machine and compacted.

OBS

coating plant: term proposed by the World Road Association.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériel de constr. (Voies de circulation)
CONT

Les installations d'enrobage actuelles se divisent en deux types : dans le premier, le malaxage se fait par charges successives; dans le second, l'enrobage est continu, le débit d'introduction des matériaux étant synchronisé avec le débit de la pompe de mesure de bitume, de façon à réaliser continuellement le dosage exigé.

OBS

poste d'enrobage : terme proposé par l'Association mondiale de la Route.

Spanish

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Record 2 1999-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Concrete Facilities and Equipment
DEF

A plant installed to mix concrete for a large structure, such as dam, or for sale to public and includes equipment for handling and storing aggregate and cement, batchers, and required number of concrete mixers.

CONT

Centralized ready-mix plants. ... In a modern ready-mix concrete plant the production of the various concrete mixes is programmed by an electronic computer, and batches of concrete of any desired size are proportioned automatically by electronic control. ... In ready-mix plants concrete is mixed either in mobile mixers or in stationary mixers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage et installations (Bétonnage)
DEF

Usine extérieure au chantier où le béton est préparé et est à l'état liquide pour être transporté sur le lieu où il sera coulé afin de réaliser un élément de construction.

Spanish

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