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bulb pressure [2 records]

Record 1 2011-08-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Air Conditioning and Heating
  • Refrigeration Engineering
OBS

bulb pressure: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conditionnement de l'air et chauffage
  • Techniques du froid
OBS

pression de bulbe : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 2 2011-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Mechanics (Engineering)
  • Foundation Engineering
DEF

The mass of compressed soil below a loaded foundation bounded by an arbitrarily selected isobar of stress.

OBS

Boussinesq is the name of a French mathematician.

Key term(s)
  • Boussinecq pressure bulb

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mécanique des sols
  • Technique des fondations
CONT

Le bulbe des pressions sous une fondation est le volume de sol limité par la fondation et une courbe isobare (lieu des points du massif soumis à la même contrainte verticale) choisie arbitrairement; [...]

Spanish

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