rocaille
English translation: rockfill
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| 08:09 Nov 25, 2007 |
| French to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Environment & Ecology / water drainage | |||||
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|  Selected response from: Bourth (X) Local time: 00:47 | ||||
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| 4 +9 | rockfill |
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| 4 | road metal |
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| 3 | boulders |
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| 3 | rockwork |
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| 2 | ballast |
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boulders Explanation: if not too small ! |
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rockwork Explanation: def: stones plus cement |
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road metal Explanation: not necessarily used only for roads http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-roa1.htm http://geology.about.com/library/bl/images/blroadmetal.htm http://www.yourdictionary.com/road-metal |
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ballast Explanation: is what came first to my mind; however, Bourth's rockfill may be more suitable depending on the actual context. See: Soil and Rock Construction Materials - Google Books Resultby G. H. McNally - 1998 - Architecture - 403 pages CHAPTER 12 Rockfill and ballast These are coarsely fragmented and free-draining ... is mainly used in embankment dams and as rubble core in breakwaters, ... books.google.com/books?isbn=0419214208... |
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24 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +9
peer agreement (net): +9rockfill Explanation: More correctly, "enrochement" in French, however, so if we can assume that your writer deliberately avoided "enrochement", then something else may have to be found. However, "enrochement" is one of the materials used to build embankment dams, and is also used for river training work. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 28 mins (2007-11-25 08:37:33 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Possibly "rip rap", though this is used as shore protection or as protection of the face of a dam rather than as a dam itself. Riprap (also known as rip rap, rubble, revetment, shot rock or rock armour) is rock or other material used to armor shorelines against water erosion. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riprap Rip rap, large sized stone or boulders, is used extensively to control erosion. Controlling erosion is important to the integrity and safety of many ... www.graymont.com/prod_rip_rap.shtml A guide to managing coastal erosion in beach/dune systems Less substantial defences may be formed as rip-rap slopes, but only in low ... Burial of the rip-rap slopes will reduce the visual impact, while fencing, ... www.snh.org.uk/publications/on-line/heritagemanagement/eros... Geotextile fabric is usually placed beneath the rock rip-rap to prevent soil loss ... Rip-Rap Shore and Streambank Erosion Brochure. Available from DNR. ... www.extension.umn.edu/distribution/naturalresources/compone... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 15 hrs (2007-11-25 23:31:40 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- La berme en enrochement, constituée de rocailles bon marché, ne résistait pas aux vagues lorsqu'elle avait une forme classique de brise-lames The rock berm consisted of low-cost rock materials that would not remain stable in a conventional rubble-mound design http://chc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/Coastal/Projects/CoastalProject_Pa... http://chc.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/Coastal/Projects/CoastalProject_Pa... enrochement – 600-2000 mm http://gresdepernes.free.fr/pdf/pernes/enrochements.pdf rocaille – 300-600mm http://gresdepernes.free.fr/pdf/pernes/rocailles.pdf Wentworth scale – boulders are >256mm in diameter British Standard particle size classification – boulders are >200mm block – An angular rock fragment, similar in size to a boulder, and more than 256mm in diameter. [Penguin Dict. of Phys. Geography] No luck so far finding dimensions for riprap or rockfill. I've seen some on dam facings around 1 m in dia. if not more. |
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