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pannes

English translation: purlin


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French term or phrase:pannes
English translation:purlin
Entered by: Lavinia Pirlog
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10:38 Apr 19, 2011
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Tech/Engineering - Metallurgy / Casting / essai de tole d'acier pleine galvanisee
French term or phrase: pannes
Une plaque sans recouvrement (largeur utile d'essai 0,892 m)
Chaque maquette est fixée sur appuis formant pannes par vis métalliques.
Lavinia Pirlog
Local time: 19:22
purlin
Explanation:
purlin = panne
cross reference Kudoz
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/french_to_english/construction_civ...

pourrait coller dans votre cas ! La maquette est fixée sur des "purlins"

Explanation:
"A beam that runs along the length of a pitched roof, i.e. transverse to the rafters. Purlins may be used either beneath or on top of rafter as supports, e.g. for cladding. They are used especially on an industrial building such as a portal frame and are often cold formed Z-beams" (New Dict. of Civil Eng. - Penguin Reference).
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Petitavoine
Local time: 18:22
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3 +1purlin
Petitavoine
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french wikipedia definition
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purlin


Explanation:
purlin = panne
cross reference Kudoz
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/french_to_english/construction_civ...

pourrait coller dans votre cas ! La maquette est fixée sur des "purlins"

Explanation:
"A beam that runs along the length of a pitched roof, i.e. transverse to the rafters. Purlins may be used either beneath or on top of rafter as supports, e.g. for cladding. They are used especially on an industrial building such as a portal frame and are often cold formed Z-beams" (New Dict. of Civil Eng. - Penguin Reference).


Petitavoine
Local time: 18:22
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agree  xxxBourth
1 hr
  -> Je n'ai pas grand mérite, mais merci quand même !
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34 mins
Reference: french wikipedia definition

Reference information:
I don't know if this help...It's one of the structure pieces

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Note added at 35 mins (2011-04-19 11:14:17 GMT)
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helps*


    Reference: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panne_%28charpente%29
Victor_T
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Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
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Asker: Thank you.

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