repiguage avec armatures en attente
English translation: bush-hammering/scabbling, with starter bars
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| 3 | could it be a typo?? repiquage?? |
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could it be a typo?? repiquage?? Explanation: repiquer is to touch up... Laying of concrete in slabs involves hydration, waiting, smoothening "...a wood or metal handfloat is used to smooth off the concrete(Floating)...." which is then followed by the curing process. Usually, the set times and curing process is very clearly specified by the cement manufacturer. http://www.cement.org/basics/concretebasics_concretebasics.a... This seems to make sense in your context....I hope this helps. |
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bush-hammering/scabbling, with starter bars Explanation: When making large reinforced-concrete items like walls, it is generally not possible to make the whole thing in one go. You place so much reinforcement and concrete, wait for the concrete to harden, place more reinforcement and concrete, and so on. If at any point the concrete placed previously has had too much time to harden (over a weekend, say), you are faced with a "cold joint", and you have to break off the top or edge of that concrete before placing more concrete, to provide a clean, rough edge for the new concrete to bond to. This involves though chipping it off with a bush-hammer or a scabbler. The steel reinforcement must also be continuous across the joint between old and new concrete. For this purpose, the reinforcement in the "old" concrete is left protruding beyond the end of the concrete, and prior to placing the next lot of concrete, the new reinforcement is attached to it, by various means, or simply left overlapping a good distance. Since the protruding rebar is there to "start" the new set of reinforcement, they are called "starter bars". |
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