Short beam placed across a structural beam or panel joint intended to support two panels from one point of lateral support. Also, called a waler.
Pony Leads
See Hairpin Lead, Telescope Lead, Spud Lead, and Beam Lead.
poorly graded, – sorted
French: mal calibré, -- trié
German: schlecht abgestuft, schlecht gekörnt
Spanish: mal graduado
Italian: mal gradato, assortito
Portuguese: mal graduado
Dutch: slecht gegradeerd
Porcupine Plate
Steel plate, provided with numerous steel studs, straps or bars welded to the plate, intended to be embedded in a wall to provide shear or tensile capacity to a connection to the wall.
Pore Pressure
Pressure in the water and gas present in the voids between the soil grains, minus the atmospheric pressure.
pore pressure dissipation
French: disparition de la pression interstitielle
German: Porenwasserdruckauflösung
Spanish: disipación de las presiónes intersticiales
Italian: dissipazione della pressione dei pori
Portuguese: dissipação de pressões neutras
Dutch: waterdruk disspatie
Pore Pressure Elevation, Phreatic
The elevation of a groundwater table corresponding to a hydrostatic pore pressure equal to the actual pore pressure.
Pore Pressure, Artesian
Pore pressure in a confined body of water having a level of hydrostatic pressure higher than the ground surface or above the normal groundwater table.
Pore Pressure, Hydrostatic
Pore pressure distribution as in a freestanding column of water.
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