Glossary

French: trou de forage

German: Bohrloch

Spanish: sondeo

Italian: pozzo in corso di perforazione, foro di perforazione

Portuguese: furo de sondagem

Dutch: boorgat

A larger diameter, up to 10 ft or more, opening excavated to bearing strata and filled with concrete – either cased or uncased.

Angle of inclination a fault stratum makes with the horizontal plane. See also Strike -The direction of a geologic boundary exposed at the ground surface relative to North.

French: inclinaison

German: einfallen, steichen

Spanish: inclinación

Italian: inclinazione

Portuguese: declive

Dutch: depressie (geologie)

A counter-flow method of circulating drilling fluid and spoil in a drill hole. In the direct circulation method drilling fluid is pumped down a hollow drill pipe, around the drill bit, and back to the surface in the annular space. See also Reverse Circul

Hollow stem chisel with provision for introducing bentonite slurry under pressure at the head of the drill in order to remove drill cuttings.

French: désintégration

German: Zerfall, Auseinanderfallen

Spanish: desintegración

Italian: disintegrazione

Portuguese: desintegração

Dutch: uiteenvallen

French: déplacement

German: Verschiebung, Fördermenge (Pumpe)

Spanish: corrimiento, desplazamiento

Italian: spostamento

Portuguese: deslocamento

Dutch: verplaatsing

Should actually be “Free-hanging (double) displacement amplitude”. See illustration #13.

French: injection avec déplacement du sol

German: Verdrängungsinjektion

Italian: iniezione dislocante/ per spostamento

Portuguese: injecção provocando deslocamento do solo

Dutch: verdringend grouten

A solid pile, or hollow pile, driven with the lower end closed, which displaces an equivalent soil volume by compaction or by lateral or vertical displacement of the soil, such as timber, closed-end pipe or precast concrete piles. A Franki Pile.

French: pieu de déplacement

German: Verdrängungspfahl, Mantelreibungspfahl

Spanish: pilote de desplazamiento

Italian: palo infisso

Portuguese: estaca de deslocamento

Dutch: paal met grondverdringing