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Alphabetical list of terms

Record 1 2016-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Structural Framework
  • Supports and Reinforcement (Construction)
DEF

A built-up beam made up of two timber beams with a steel plate sandwiched between them, the whole being bolted together at intervals, thus encouraging the composite construction to act as one member.

OBS

girder : Originally, a main beam in floor construction, now generally applied to any built-up beam designed to support a heavy load.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Charpentes
  • Étayage et consolidation (Construction)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estructuras (Construcción)
  • Soportes y refuerzos (Construcción)
DEF

Viga compuesta de materiales diferentes como, por ejemplo, la unión de dos vigas de madera con una platabanda metálica

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Record 2 2013-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ship and Boat Parts
OBS

The uppermost continuous deck in the ship. The main strength deck forms the upper component of the ship's box girder and is designed primarily to counter longitudinal stresses.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Parties des bateaux
OBS

C'est le pont continu le plus élevé. Il forme la composante supérieure de la poutre-caisson et il est surtout destiné à contrer les contraintes longitudinales.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-06-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cranes (Hoisting and Lifting)
  • Gantry and Travelling Cranes
  • Shipbuilding Yards and Docks
CONT

Shipyard cranes... are supplied for the shipbuilding industry in single girder and double girder design with trolley for main and auxiliary hoists and with angle crabs... Shipyard cranes are also designed as double jib level luffing cranes.

OBS

shipyard: A coastal facility used to repair and build ships; ...

OBS

dockyard: A ship repair facility.

Key term(s)
  • ship-building crane

French

Domaine(s)
  • Grues (Levage)
  • Ponts roulants et portiques (Levage)
  • Chantiers maritimes
OBS

cale : Plan incliné servant à la construction, à la réparation des navires.

Key term(s)
  • grue de chantier de construction navale

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Structural Framework
  • Supports and Reinforcement (Construction)
DEF

A rectangular beam which consists of smaller timbers over which planks are nailed on each side, the whole unit being glued or bolted together.

OBS

"girder" : Originally, a main beam in floor construction; now generally applied to any built-up beam designed to support a heavy load.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Charpentes
  • Étayage et consolidation (Construction)
DEF

Poutre lamellée ou poutre composée de deux membres ou plus.

CONT

"poutre composée": se dit spécialement d'une poutre en I, comportant une âme verticale, en général pleine, assemblée à des ailes ou semelles horizontales.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estructuras (Construcción)
  • Soportes y refuerzos (Construcción)
DEF

Viga formada por dos o más tablones o perfiles clavados o remachados, que aumentan la resistencia del elemento estructural.

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Record 5 2011-03-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Hoisting and Lifting
DEF

Additional chord of certain bridges conceived to support some of the horizontal stresses of the main girder.

CONT

The outer girders are connected to auxiliary girders forming platforms which carry the travelling gear and control panel.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Levage
DEF

Membrure auxiliaire individualisée sur certains ponts et destinée à recevoir une partie des efforts horizontaux de la poutre principale.

CONT

Les poutres de rive constituées de caissons étroits sont flanquées chacune d'une passerelle en porte-à-faux.

OBS

poutre auxiliaire : terme recommandé par l'Office de la langue française.

Spanish

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Record 6 2009-06-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Aircraft Airframe
DEF

A wing that is not linked to the fuselage by means of a mast or bracing wire.

CONT

The most common current wing design is the cantilever. A single large beam, called the main spar, runs through the wing, typically nearer the leading edge at about 25 percent of the total chord. In flight, the wings generate lift, and the wing spars are designed to carry this load through the fuselage to the other wing. To resist fore and aft movement, the wing will usually be fitted with a second smaller drag-spar nearer the trailing edge, tied to the main spar with structural elements or a stressed skin. The wing must also resist twisting forces, done either by a monocoque "D" tube structure forming the leading edge, or by the aforementioned linking two spars in some form of box beam or lattice girder structure.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cellule d'aéronefs
DEF

Aile qui n'est pas reliée au fuselage par un mât ou un hauban.

CONT

En aéronautique, on appelle une «aile cantilever», un système de voilure développé vers le milieu des années 1910 selon un principe permettant d'éviter les haubans (générateurs de traînée perturbatrice) auxquels la voilure des premiers avions était suspendue. L'un des premiers à avoir mis au point ce principe était Levavasseur sur son avion Antoinette monobloc.

OBS

La voilure désigne l'ensemble des ailes. Chaque aile prise individuellement est appelée demi-voilure.

OBS

aile cantilever; aile en porte-à-faux : termes uniformisés par le Comité d'uniformisation de la terminologie aéronautique (CUTA) - Maintenance.

Key term(s)
  • aile en porte à faux
  • demi-voilure en porte-à-faux
  • demi voilure en porte à faux
  • demi voilure en porte-à-faux

Spanish

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Record 7 1999-11-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tunnels, Overpasses and Bridges
CONT

Fixed bridges... In certain types of construction, the deck and the main load-carrying superstructure members are made to participate in carrying the load in order to make the bridge more economical than ordinary stringer or girder bridges with a concrete deck.

OBS

Stringer or stringer beam: A long horizontal member which ties together the heads of trestles in wooden trestle bridges or provides support under a rail, parallel to it, in a steel railway bridge.

OBS

See record "stringer".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tunnels, viaducs et ponts
OBS

Longeron : Pièce secondaire d'un tablier de pont. (Les longerons peuvent s'appuyer sur des pièces de pont ou sur des entretoises.)

Spanish

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Record 8 1988-01-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Tunnels, Overpasses and Bridges
CONT

The different types of cable supported bridges are distinctively characterized by the configuration of the cable system. The suspension system... comprises a parabolic main cable and vertical or slightly inclined hanger cables connecting the stiffening girder to the main cable. The cable stayed system... contains straight cables connecting the stiffening girder to the pylons.

CONT

Bridges that depend on high-strength steel cables as major structural elements may be classified as suspension bridges, specifically as cable-suspended or cable-stayed bridges - the fundamental difference is the manner in which the bridge deck is supported by the cables.

OBS

Note that the term "suspension bridge" may be confusing as per the authors consulted: the term seems to be used as a generic and as a specific all the same. It is less frequently used as a generic but it had been found so in a highly technical and recent source that can hardly be rejected.

OBS

Compare with cable-suspended bridge and cable-stayed bridge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tunnels, viaducs et ponts
CONT

Ces types d'ouvrages (les bow-strings en acier, les arcs en béton armé, les arcs en acier) ne sont plus utilisés en France pour des raisons économiques. Dans la situation actuelle, les ponts à câbles, à haubans ou suspendus s'avèrent moins coûteux pour les très grandes portées.

Spanish

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