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HARD SURFACING [5 records]

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Record 1 2014-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Concrete Preparation and Mixing
  • Road Construction
  • Binders and Mastics (Constr.)
CONT

As a basic raw material aggregates can be put to many uses, although certain tasks may require a specific type of aggregate.... Aggregates are used in construction to provide drainage, fill voids, protect pipes, and to provide hard surfaces. They are also used in water filtration and sewage treatment processes.... This is frequently used alongside roads in order to disperse water collected from the asphalt surfacing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fabrication du béton
  • Construction des voies de circulation
  • Liants et mastics (Construction)
DEF

Éléments granulaires d'un matériau reconstitué, tel que mortier, béton, enrobé, etc.

OBS

En géotechnique routière on utilise plutôt le terme granulats.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Fabricación del hormigón
  • Construcción de carreteras
  • Argamasas y masillas (Construcción)
CONT

Agregados. Compuestos de grava y arena que son extraídos de sus respectivas canteras. Estos materiales proporcionan al concreto el volumen necesario e incrementan su resistencia. Bajo circunstancias normales, un metro cúbico de concreto contiene dos toneladas métricas de grava y arena.

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Record 2 2011-05-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Roofs (Building Elements)
DEF

Roofing made of a hard, brittle metamorphic rock consisting mainly of clay minerals, and used as dimension stone in thin sheets for flooring, roofing, panels or chalkboard, and in granular form as surfacing on composition roofing.

CONT

Aluminum should not be considered for flashing a slate roof as its longevity is not compatible with slate.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Toitures (Éléments du bâtiment)
CONT

La couverture en ardoise est principalement utilisée au voisinage des gisements de schiste ardoisier [...] La facilité du travail de l'ardoise permet la réalisation de belles toitures, ce qui a fait choisir ce matériau pour la couverture d'édifices monumentaux dans toute la France.

OBS

Couverture. Ensemble des ouvrages et matériaux de revêtement qui assurent le «couvert» d'un édifice.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Techos (Elementos de edificios)
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Record 3 1998-08-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Welding and Soldering (Metals)
CONT

Surfacing is a term used to describe processes of depositing metal on surfaces of tools and machine parts in order to increase their dimensional sizes or to obtain some specific mechanical property.... The two main categories of surfacing are known as hardfacing and metallizing. Hardfacing is a fusion technique and includes processes which are designed to produce hard, tough overlays to resist severe abrasion, corrosion, and impact loads. Metallizing is a spray coating procedure where finely divided particles of metal are deposited on surfaces where metal has worn away or where it is necessary to build up certain contours. Hardfacing is actually a fusion weld process in which a special hardfacing rod, wire, or electrode is intermixed with the base metal.

Key term(s)
  • metallizing

French

Domaine(s)
  • Soudage (Métal)
DEF

Opération consistant à recouvrir la surface d'une pièce métallique, d'une couche plus ou moins épaisse d'un autre métal ou alliage fondu (rechargement hétérogène), pour augmenter localement la résistance à l'usure, ou pour apporter du métal semblable (rechargement homogène) sur des parties usées ou corrodées.

CONT

Technologie du rechargement. (...) L'opération consiste essentiellement à rapporter, par fusion, sur les parties usées ou susceptibles de s'user, un métal de même nature ou, le plus souvent, de nature différente de celle du métal de base.

Spanish

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Record 4 1980-01-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Welding and Soldering (Metals)
DEF

To apply a layer of hard, abrasion-resistant metal to a less resistant metal part by plating, welding ...

OBS

Hard surfacing electrodes and welding rods are used to deposit weld metal on wearing parts of machines in order to increase their wording life.

OBS

"Build up", found on a poorly documented record, is not shown as a synonym because it could not be confirmed in a reliable source.

Key term(s)
  • build up

French

Domaine(s)
  • Soudage (Métal)
CONT

recharger une pièce métallique: rapporter du métal sur sa partie usée pour lui donner, éventuellement par un nouvel usinage, ses cotes d'origine.

OBS

Le rechargement par soudo-brasage consiste à déposer une ou plusieurs couches d'alliage sur une pièce cassée ou usée. C'est le procédé que l'on emploie pour remettre en état une roue dentée dont une dent a été brisée.

Spanish

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Record 5 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Exterior Covering Materials

French

Domaine(s)
  • Revêtements extérieurs

Spanish

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