Glossary entry (derived from question below)
français term or phrase:
dés de sol
anglais translation:
ground bearing pads
français term
dés de sol
I feel embarrassed but I've never come across this expression... I'd be grateful for any thoughts :-)
3 | ground bearing pads | B D Finch |
5 | dies of pedestal on the ground | Chris Hall |
2 | plinth | Tzveta Valentinova |
Jan 21, 2008 08:13: Tony M changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
PRO (2): Stéphanie Soudais, Tony M
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Proposed translations
ground bearing pads
"This book explains the flexural analysis of plain raft foundations and related ground-bearing structures such as strip footings and pad foundations. ..."
www.lavoisier.fr/notice/fr064087.html
"bearing pads, which are placed between the building. and the building's foundation. ... ground moves to the left, the fixed-base building (the one ..."
philippe.gambette.free.fr/SCOL/Anti-SeismicDevices.pdf
dies of pedestal on the ground
Thanks Chris - not convinced so far though as "dies of pedestal" gets zero hits on google and other search engines, but then so does "dés de sol" so I'm still mystified :-) |
plinth
http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/html/glossary/glossary.shtml
http://images.google.co.uk/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&rls=GGLG%2CGGLG%3A2006-10%2CGGLG%3Aen&q=plinth
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