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Record 1 1992-12-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Extraction Procedures - Various (Mining)
  • Excavation (Construction)
DEF

Masonry sub-basement used to distribute the load of a construction on soft soil and on which ... the piles of a tunnel ... are established.

OBS

invert strut: Rock Tunneling with Steel Supports, 1977, p. 130.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Procédés d'extraction divers (Exploit. minière)
  • Fouilles (Construction)
DEF

Dalle épaisse en maçonnerie ou en béton constituant la fondation d'un ouvrage, le plancher d'une fosse, d'un canal ou d'une galerie souterraine.

CONT

[...] il faudra établir un radier [...] pour répartir la charge sur une surface plus grande. (La construction des tunnels, galeries et souterrains, 1954, p. 250).

Spanish

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