Glossary

French: mesure de tassement

German: Setzungsmessung

Spanish: medida del asiento

Italian: misura del cedimento

Portuguese: medição de assentamentos

Dutch: zettingsmeting

French: plaque repère de tassement

German: Setzungsplatte

Spanish: placas testigos de asientos

Italian: piano di assestamento

Portuguese: placa para medição de assentamentos

Dutch: zettingsplaat

Measuring points installed to monitor movement of ground, buildings, structures adjacent to deep excavations.

French: point de dilatation

Total downward of a pile or pile group under applied load.

French: décapeuse, scraper

German: Erdlader, Erdeschürfgerät

Spanish: robadera, scraper

Italian: ruspa

Portuguese: scraper

Dutch: scraper

French: tamis

German: Sieb

Spanish: pantalla

Italian: crivello, retino, vaglio

Portuguese: peneiro

Dutch: zeef

(See Helical Screw Anchor)

A pile with spiral blade fixed on a shaft or a shaped precast pile, which is screwed into ground by a rotating force.

French: pieu à vis

German: Schraubpfahl

Spanish: pilote de rosca

Italian: pali ad elica

Portuguese: estaca de rosca

Dutch: schroefpaal

French: niveau de la mer

German: Meeresspiegel

Spanish: nivel del mar

Italian: livello del mare

Portuguese: nivel do mar

Dutch: zeeniveau, zeespeigel

A work constructed along a shore line of loose mounds or heaps of rubble, or masonry walls supplemented with treated timber, steel or reinforcing concrete sheet piling driven into the beach and strengthened by wales and guide and brace piles. Intended as

French: digue

German: Mole

Spanish: muro costero

Italian: muro a mare, parete a mare

Portuguese: molhe

Dutch: havendam