Sep 2, 2008 20:41
16 yrs ago
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French term
coffrage descendant
French to English
Tech/Engineering
Construction / Civil Engineering
Concrete
Now, a "coffrage ascendant" is a climbing form, sometimes self-climbing form, a piece of apparatus that attaches to the wall of a building under construction and serves to mould or "form" the concrete of the next section of wall up.
My "coffrage descendant" is being used on an existing skyscraper from which the cladding and curtainwalling is being removed from the top down from a work platform attached to the side of the building. This work platform is followed by the "coffrage descendant" which serves to add extensions to the concrete floors, making the building several metres wider in each direction, before new cladding and curtainwalling is erected.
No relevant ghits for "coffrage descendant", so it's not exactly a common concept in French!
Any ideas in English? All I can come up with is "downward-moving cantilever form"
My "coffrage descendant" is being used on an existing skyscraper from which the cladding and curtainwalling is being removed from the top down from a work platform attached to the side of the building. This work platform is followed by the "coffrage descendant" which serves to add extensions to the concrete floors, making the building several metres wider in each direction, before new cladding and curtainwalling is erected.
No relevant ghits for "coffrage descendant", so it's not exactly a common concept in French!
Any ideas in English? All I can come up with is "downward-moving cantilever form"
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +1 | top-down formwork |
rkillings
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| 4 | descending formwork |
Narasimhan Raghavan
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| 4 | top-to-bottom shuttering re-use |
kashew
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| 1 | downward moving shuttering |
Bashiqa
|
Proposed translations
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top-down formwork
Readily understood as formwork used in the top-down construction method. Of course it moves down as you go. Do you really need to say so?
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Note added at 3 hrs (2008-09-02 23:49:42 GMT)
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Or perhaps "reverse climbing formwork"?
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Note added at 3 hrs (2008-09-02 23:49:42 GMT)
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Or perhaps "reverse climbing formwork"?
Note from asker:
| Of course! Silly me! Would normally apply to below-grade construction, but why not. |
| I toyed with "reverse" and "inverted" to start with. I think "top-down" is a winner. |
| Particularly since the text is accompanied by an explicit, bloomer-divested photo. |
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Comment: "Top-down formwork it will be henceforth!"
33 mins
downward moving shuttering
Perhaps the word shuttering explains better what it is doing rather than form. Bon courage.
46 mins
Narasimhan Raghavan
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Native in: Tamil
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descending formwork
GDT gives:
coffrage glissant n. m. --> slip formwork
Définition :
Coffrage outil permettant la réalisation continue d'ouvrages.
Coffrage permettant de mouler un ouvrage par éléments successifs, en glissant le long de la paroi.
Note(s) :
Dans le cas de coffrages verticaux, ceux-ci s'appuient sur des trains de tiges par l'intermédiaire de vérins. Dans le cas de coffrages horizontaux, ceux-ci sont portés par des rails ou des chenilles.
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Note added at 47 mins (2008-09-02 21:29:19 GMT)
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Or we can just use the term "slip formwork" for both climbing and descending modes
coffrage glissant n. m. --> slip formwork
Définition :
Coffrage outil permettant la réalisation continue d'ouvrages.
Coffrage permettant de mouler un ouvrage par éléments successifs, en glissant le long de la paroi.
Note(s) :
Dans le cas de coffrages verticaux, ceux-ci s'appuient sur des trains de tiges par l'intermédiaire de vérins. Dans le cas de coffrages horizontaux, ceux-ci sont portés par des rails ou des chenilles.
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Note added at 47 mins (2008-09-02 21:29:19 GMT)
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Or we can just use the term "slip formwork" for both climbing and descending modes
Note from asker:
| "Descending formwork" might work, but it's not "slip formwork", which is for continuous elements, e.g columns, crash barriers, kerbs. Here it's used for floors, discontinuously. |
11 hrs
top-to-bottom shuttering re-use
Another shot!
Note from asker:
| "Top-down" is standard parlance for underground construction carried out from the surface downwards, as opposed to digging a hole first then building in it, so the meaning will be clear (even if it is above ground here; additionally, there is a photo of a 40-storey bldg with the thing). |
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