French: béton dosé à 350 kg CLK, épaisseur 15 cmEnglish translation: clinker type cement (Ciment de Laitier au clinKer) 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | CLK: "béton dosé à 350 kg CLK" | | English translation: | clinker type cement (Ciment de Laitier au clinKer) | | Entered by: | HeinrichB |
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Tech/Engineering - Metallurgy / Casting | | French term or phrase: béton dosé à 350 kg CLK, épaisseur 15 cm | In a technical manual for an industrial machine.
The machine weighs 7000 kg and shoud "être disposé sur un sol dur et plan, si possible sur une dalle en béton (béton dosé à 350 kg CLK, épaisseur 15 cm)
I put (concrete dose: 350 kg CLK, 15 cm thickness). But I have no idea what CLK is. Although Google found a number of references to CLK, the meaning is not clear and I think it might be a brand of cement. But in that case why specify the brand in the manual ? Many thanks in advance for your help !! |
| | Clarification request(s) and responseSylvie Nelson: 6:32pm Jul 20, 2006: Thanks everyone for the help so far !! I'm sure you found the correct answer but as the Kudoz rules recommend, I will wait 24 hours for closing the question.
Sylvie Nelson: 4:07pm Jul 21, 2006: Thanks everyone for your very comprehensive answers !
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| | clinker type cement | Explanation:
It appears to be a type of cement, so it's not so much an acronym as an abbrev.
http://www.materialkemi.lth.se/cement/portland_cement_clinke...
"Portland cement is produced by heating the ground raw materials in a rotating kiln to 1450°C. The raw mix consists of limestone, clay, bauxite, iron ore and quartz. The material formed is called clinker. It is ground to a fine powder and mixed with a few wt% gypsum to make Portland cement. The cement is then sold to the building companies, who mix it with stone and water to build concrete-constructions.
Portland cement clinker consists of four phases:
* Alite
* Belite
* Aluminate
* Ferrite
The four clinker phases react in different ways when the cement is mixed with water. Aluminate and ferrite reacts fast but gives little strength development.
Alite and belite reacts slower but gives high strength. By combining the raw materials carefully it is possible to get different amounts of the four phases and thereby design cement with special properties for different types of constructions.
Ordinary Portland cement (OPC) is adjusted to general building standards in Sweden. It consists of approximately 67 wt% alite, 15 wt% belite, 9 wt% aluminate and 9 wt% ferrite. "
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| clinker type cement
Explanation:
It appears to be a type of cement, so it's not so much an acronym as an abbrev.
http://www.materialkemi.lth.se/cement/portland_cement_clinke...
"Portland cement is produced by heating the ground raw materials in a rotating kiln to 1450°C. The raw mix consists of limestone, clay, bauxite, iron ore and quartz. The material formed is called clinker. It is ground to a fine powder and mixed with a few wt% gypsum to make Portland cement. The cement is then sold to the building companies, who mix it with stone and water to build concrete-constructions.
Portland cement clinker consists of four phases:
* Alite
* Belite
* Aluminate
* Ferrite
The four clinker phases react in different ways when the cement is mixed with water. Aluminate and ferrite reacts fast but gives little strength development.
Alite and belite reacts slower but gives high strength. By combining the raw materials carefully it is possible to get different amounts of the four phases and thereby design cement with special properties for different types of constructions.
Ordinary Portland cement (OPC) is adjusted to general building standards in Sweden. It consists of approximately 67 wt% alite, 15 wt% belite, 9 wt% aluminate and 9 wt% ferrite. "
Reference: http://www.materialkemi.lth.se/cement/portland_cement_clinke...
| HeinrichB
Canada
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| concrete dosed with 350kg.CLK thickness 15cm.
Explanation:
CLK is the cement resulting by grinding a mixture of atleast 80 parts ofgranulated slag of a high temperature furnace , with portland clinker representing more than 20 parts, with an addition of calcium sulphate.
As per the different proportions of slag utilised in France,US and in Gret Britain, this term does not correspond, from a notional point of view ,either to Portland blast furnace slag cement,or to Portland blast furnace cement.
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Note added at 9 hrs (2006-07-21 02:45:10 GMT)
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Because of the explanation given above, CLK can be retained in the translation as such, as it is understood as such in the English speaking countries.
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|  narasimha
India
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