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HOLLOW BUILDING BLOCK [3 records]

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Record 1 2015-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Masonry Materials
DEF

A hollow building block of concrete or burnt clay used for making partitions, exterior walls, or suspended floors or roofs.

CONT

Concrete or burnt clay hollow building blocks are used for making partitions or external walls or for forming reinforced concrete hollow-tile floors.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériaux de maçonnerie
DEF

Élément creux de maçonnerie pour murs extérieurs ou cloisons, ou employé comme matériau de construction pour former les planchers.

CONT

La brique dite «B 1» est un bloc creux de grand format à perforations horizontales pour murs extérieurs enduits. Elle peut être porteuse ou de remplissage.

OBS

parpaing : Par extension, désigne aujourd'hui le bloc de béton de granulats, plein ou creux, dit aggloméré, ou plot [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 2000-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Glazing Materials (Constr.)
  • Walls and Partitions
DEF

A hollow translucent block usually with ribbed exterior made by fusing two sections of clear pressed glass at high temperature and used as a building material chiefly for wall panels.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériaux verriers (Construction)
  • Murs et cloisons

Spanish

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Record 3 1999-02-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Masonry Materials
  • Terra Cotta
CONT

... bricks are considered to be solid units, having the cross-sectional area of cores not exceeding 25 percent of the total cross-sectional area of the unit, while clay tiles, by contrast, are hollow units.

OBS

hollow tile : A hollow building block of concrete or burnt clay...

OBS

hollow tile: [Structural] tile made in a variety of forms and sizes; used extensively as a building material for both exterior walls and partitions.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériaux de maçonnerie
  • Terres cuites
CONT

Briques creuses. Ce terme recouvre, de façon générale, tous les éléments parallélépipédiques de terre cuite dont l'ensemble des perforations a une section cumulée supérieure à 40% de la section de l'élément.

CONT

Les briques creuses façonnées par étirage sont des produits dont le pourcentage de vide dépasse 40% par rapport à la section totale de l'élément. Ces perforations sont généralement parallèles au plan de pose.

OBS

On distingue la brique perforée de la brique creuse par le fait que les alvéoles de la première sont disposées à la verticale lors de la pose alors que celles de la brique creuse sont disposées horizontalement.

Spanish

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