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juntas de dilatación

English translation: expansion joints

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Spanish term or phrase:juntas de dilatación
English translation:expansion joints
Entered by: Berni Armstrong

07:35 May 16, 2002
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering / Building Materials / Methods
Spanish term or phrase: juntas de dilatación
I know what these are, they are those joints which compensate for expansion or contraction due to heat. Such as can be found on motorway bridges. But what do we call them in English?

"Estas propiedades son de vital importancia ya que, al ser menores los coeficientes de dilatación lineal y la conductividad térmica, permiten en ciertos casos de utilización como canalones, tejados, estructuras… reducir o incluso eliminar las juntas de dilatación."
Berni Armstrong
Spain
Local time: 21:39
expansion joints
Explanation:
Ciao,
M.

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Note added at 2002-05-16 07:45:20 (GMT)
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\"Many of the attendees expressed their concern about eliminating expansion joints on longer bridges. Almost all districts indicated they were having problems with bridge movements at the end piers and approach slabs where a long bridge was built without expansion joints within the spans.\"

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/bridge/designmemos/04-1994.htm
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Massimo Gaido
United States
Local time: 14:39
Grading comment
perfect thanks. Dilation joints sounded needlessly medical ;-)

Berni
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expansion joints


Explanation:
Ciao,
M.

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Note added at 2002-05-16 07:45:20 (GMT)
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\"Many of the attendees expressed their concern about eliminating expansion joints on longer bridges. Almost all districts indicated they were having problems with bridge movements at the end piers and approach slabs where a long bridge was built without expansion joints within the spans.\"

http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/eesc/bridge/designmemos/04-1994.htm


Massimo Gaido
United States
Local time: 14:39
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in pair: 226
Grading comment
perfect thanks. Dilation joints sounded needlessly medical ;-)

Berni

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