Jun 10, 2009 21:19
14 yrs ago
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French term
descente de charges
French to English
Tech/Engineering
Metallurgy / Casting
Structural steelwork
Good evening ,
I am working on a letter for a French Metallurgy Enterprise; the following sentence contains my term in question: [might it be "down grade of loads? This is not my area at all.] Juste avant la phrase cci-dessous, on parle de: l'examen, la note de calculs ...et du module haut et module bas:
"...liaison entre les poteaux du module haut et ceux du module bas, interaction entre le longeron bas du module haut (support de plancher) et le longeron haut du module."
'Au chapitre 2, qui constitue un inventaire des actions appliquées à la structure étudiée, rien n’est dit non plus sur la descente de charges du module haut sur le module bas."
Thanks for any help you can provide,
Richard
I am working on a letter for a French Metallurgy Enterprise; the following sentence contains my term in question: [might it be "down grade of loads? This is not my area at all.] Juste avant la phrase cci-dessous, on parle de: l'examen, la note de calculs ...et du module haut et module bas:
"...liaison entre les poteaux du module haut et ceux du module bas, interaction entre le longeron bas du module haut (support de plancher) et le longeron haut du module."
'Au chapitre 2, qui constitue un inventaire des actions appliquées à la structure étudiée, rien n’est dit non plus sur la descente de charges du module haut sur le module bas."
Thanks for any help you can provide,
Richard
Proposed translations
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| 4 +2 | load take-down, etc. |
Bourth (X)
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| 4 | Collapsing weight measurements in building construction |
Didier Caizergues
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load take-down, etc.
There's already ample discussion of that here, I'm sure, if you run a Term Search for it.
Apart from that, from my notes:
Descente des charges (Vertical) load distribution; grounding out loads (AFNOR nuclear), thrust line [Gordon, Structures, p.181], load path [nCE,16.7.99,p.10, CEi,10.99,p.5], load take-down [nCEI,3/01,p.52]
It refers to the path the load (stresses, etc.) follows from the top of the building down to the bottom, and the reduction coefficients for each story (strangely enough, the bottom storey of a building is not designed to take the total load of all the floors above; were it to do so, its columns and walls would be incredibly thick and massive; quite how this is achieved safely I cannot fathom, but it must have something to do with redundancy of safety factors).
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Note added at 9 mins (2009-06-10 21:29:48 GMT)
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Admittedly you have to mess about with plurals, but a Term Search would have found you this:
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/french_to_english/tech_engineering...
I still feel it should really have brought up multiple answers since this has come up at least half a dozen times over the years.
Apart from that, from my notes:
Descente des charges (Vertical) load distribution; grounding out loads (AFNOR nuclear), thrust line [Gordon, Structures, p.181], load path [nCE,16.7.99,p.10, CEi,10.99,p.5], load take-down [nCEI,3/01,p.52]
It refers to the path the load (stresses, etc.) follows from the top of the building down to the bottom, and the reduction coefficients for each story (strangely enough, the bottom storey of a building is not designed to take the total load of all the floors above; were it to do so, its columns and walls would be incredibly thick and massive; quite how this is achieved safely I cannot fathom, but it must have something to do with redundancy of safety factors).
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Note added at 9 mins (2009-06-10 21:29:48 GMT)
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Admittedly you have to mess about with plurals, but a Term Search would have found you this:
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/french_to_english/tech_engineering...
I still feel it should really have brought up multiple answers since this has come up at least half a dozen times over the years.
Note from asker:
| Hello Bourth. Thanks for your input. |
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you for your help Bourth and sorry for the delay!@"
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Didier Caizergues
Native in French
Who said translation was hard?
Native in: French 
Works in: English to French, French to English, Spanish to French
Collapsing weight measurements in building construction
Rough draft would give this (illustrations would help in comprehension, but we translators seldom get that luxury, now do we...?):
"... Link between the upper module pillars and those of the lower module, interaction between the lower girder of upper module (which supports the upper module floor) and the upper girder of upper module."
"In chapter 2, which constitutes an inventory of actions applied to the structure in study, nothing is said either about measured collapsing weight applied by upper module on lower module."
"... Link between the upper module pillars and those of the lower module, interaction between the lower girder of upper module (which supports the upper module floor) and the upper girder of upper module."
"In chapter 2, which constitutes an inventory of actions applied to the structure in study, nothing is said either about measured collapsing weight applied by upper module on lower module."
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