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appareils d appui a elastomere frette

English translation: reinforced elastomeric bridge bearing

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French term or phrase:appareil d appui a elastomere frette
English translation:reinforced elastomeric bridge bearing

18:55 Mar 2, 2005
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French term or phrase: appareils d appui a elastomere frette
Appareil d'appui à élastomère fretté, if you can read accents

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Joshua Wolfe
Local time: 16:23
reinforced elastomeric bridge bearing
Explanation:
appareil d'appui = bridge bearing / bearing / bearing device
élastomère = elastomer / rubber / elastomeric
fretté = girded, reinforced (with a band or ring)

appareils d'appui à élastomère fretté = reinforced elastomeric bridge bearing
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Julie Roy
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5elastomeric laminated bearings
Bourth (X)
4reinforced elastomeric bridge bearing
Julie Roy
5 -1cushions or bearings out of hooped elastomer
Leonid Gornik


  

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appareils d'appui à élastomère fretté
reinforced elastomeric bridge bearing


Explanation:
appareil d'appui = bridge bearing / bearing / bearing device
élastomère = elastomer / rubber / elastomeric
fretté = girded, reinforced (with a band or ring)

appareils d'appui à élastomère fretté = reinforced elastomeric bridge bearing

Julie Roy
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cushions or bearings out of hooped elastomer


Explanation:
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Reinforcement is made by putting on bands or hoops around elastomeric material to restrict its expansion under compression.


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Leonid Gornik
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disagree  Bourth (X): Note that your reference is a (very poor!) translation from French.
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elastomeric laminated bearings


Explanation:
Basically a block of rubber moulded onto a variable number of steel plates (for stiffening purposes).

BSI Gloss of Building and Civ. Eng. terms, and this site, for ex.:

for neoprene elastomeric laminated bearings, bridge bearing pads ...
manaufacturer for neoprene bridge bearings, laminated elastomeric bearing, ptfe sliding bearings, high damping rubber bearings, plain bearing pads, steel bearings ...
www.pretread.com/bridgebearing.html

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Note added at 1 hr 38 mins (2005-03-02 20:34:00 GMT)
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While it is logical, as Julie says, to think that \"fretté\" means \"banded\" or \"externally reinforced\", this is not in fact the case.

Corroboration : \"Les appareils [d\'appui] sont classés en 4 catégories ... 2/ Les appareils en élastomère fretté composés d\'un empilage (ou empilement) alterné de feuilles d\'élastomère de 8 à 20mm (généralement du néoprène) et de tôles d\'acier de 1 à 3mm rendues solidaires des précédentes au moment de la vulcanisation ...\" [Dico-TP]

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Note added at 4 hrs 27 mins (2005-03-02 23:23:16 GMT)
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Actually, despite the BSI definition, \"laminated elastomeric bearing\" (586) is nearly 50 times more common on Google than \"laminated elastomeric bearing\" (12).

Bourth (X)
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