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FOUNDATION ENGINEER [8 records]

Record 1 - external organization data 2022-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment - National Occupational Classification (NOC)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Classification nationale des professions (CNP)

Spanish

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Record 2 2021-10-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Units (Regular Force, Armed Forces)
  • Military Training
  • Field Engineering (Military)
OBS

The Canadian Forces School of Military Engineering provides engineer individual training and expertise in order to set an enduring foundation for the Canadian military engineers to assist friendly troops to live, move and fight across the full spectrum of CAF [Canadian Armed Forces] operations.

OBS

Canadian Forces School of Military Engineering; CFSME: title and abbreviation to be used by the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Unités (régulières, Forces armées)
  • Instruction du personnel militaire
  • Génie (Militaire)
OBS

École du génie militaire des Forces canadiennes; EGMFC : titre et abréviation d'usage obligatoire au ministère de la Défense nationale et dans les Forces canadiennes.

Spanish

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Record 3 2018-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Foundation Engineering

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Technique des fondations

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-05-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Foundation Engineering
  • Civil Engineering
  • Engineering
OBS

Foundation engineer : The foundation engineer is concerned with the earth's support of any construction project. He must be familiar with soils and their behavior under stress, and with the effects of water and air on soils and rocks. He provides design data to the structural engineer so that the latter can design the structure based on correct support data.

Key term(s)
  • foundations engineering

French

Domaine(s)
  • Technique des fondations
  • Génie civil
  • Ingénierie
CONT

On se sert des palplanches métalliques ou en béton pour confectionner des rideaux plans verticaux continus ou des enceintes fermées. C'est sous cette forme d'enceinte fermée, circulaire, d'assez grand diamètre pour ne pas les déformer, que l'on rencontre les palplanches métalliques en technique de fondations.

Key term(s)
  • technique de fondation

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Técnica de cimientos
  • Ingeniería civil
  • Ingeniería
CONT

Prácticas como la autoconstrucción sustentable, con la aplicación de técnicas de cimientos y muros con neumáticos y la reutilización de material de desecho como aislación en muros [...] han dado un sello a nuestro proyecto.

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Record 5 1999-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Measuring Instruments (Engineering)
  • Soil Mechanics (Engineering)
  • Soil Tests (Construction)
DEF

A 30 ° to 60 ° cone... used to determine the force required to thrust the cone downward into silty or fine to medium-coarse sands, and hence to obtain information that a foundation or soils engineer may use to calculate some of the load-bearing capabilities of such formations.

DEF

Instrument used to measure the ability of a soil to support traffic movements.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de mesure (Ingénierie)
  • Mécanique des sols
  • Essais du sol (Construction)
CONT

Méthode du pénétromètre à cône. Cette méthode comporte un tube dans lequel peut glisser une tige-piston, terminée par une pointe conique. On peut faire agir une pression sur le tube seul, ou sur l'ensemble tube-tige. La pénétration de la pointe permet de mesurer la résistance du sol en kg/cm [carrés] (...).

Spanish

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Record 6 1996-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Road Construction
DEF

A road pavement having a firm foundation of large stone fragments, and a smooth hard-rolled surface of small stones.

OBS

Telford.(after Thomas Telford, civil engineer) being or relating to a road pavement having a surface of small stone rolled hard and smooth and distinguished from macadam road by its firm foundation of large stones with fragments of stone wedged tightly in the interstices.

Key term(s)
  • telford
  • telford road

French

Domaine(s)
  • Construction des voies de circulation

Spanish

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Record 7 1989-09-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soil Mechanics (Engineering)
  • Soil Tests (Construction)
CONT

Techniques for subsurface investigation.... Methods of exploration. Before the engineer can design a foundation intelligently, he must have a reasonably accurate conception of the physical properties and the arrangement of the underlying materials. The field and laboratory investigations required to obtain this essential information are called the "soil exploration" or the "exploratory program".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mécanique des sols
  • Essais du sol (Construction)
CONT

Si la préparation des premiers sondages d'exploration ne fait intervenir que des données de surface géologiques et géophysiques, le choix des implantations suivantes prend en compte l'ensemble des informations géologiques fournies par ces sondages. La conduite d'une campagne d'exploration est une construction complexe où chaque nouvelle information permet une approximation plus fine de la connaissance générale de la géologie profonde du bassin sédimentaire.

Spanish

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Record 8 1987-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drilling and Boring (Construction)
CONT

Before the engineer can design an foundation intelligently, he must have a reasonably accurate conception of the physical properties and the arrangements of the underlying materials. The field and laboratory investigations required to obtain this essential information are called the soil exploration or the exploratory program.... After preliminary borings have disclosed the general characteristics of the underlying material, a more extensive program of boring and sampling may be indicated.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondage et forage (Construction)
OBS

Par analogie avec "campagne de forage", appartenant au domaine de l'exploration pétrolière. Voir Universalis 1984 vol. 14 page 332.

Spanish

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