Glossary

French: mélangeur

German: Mischer

Spanish: mesclador, agitador

Italian: miscelatore, mescolatore

Portuguese: misturador, betoneira

Dutch: mixer, menger

Combination of mechanical devices used to mix, store, clean and/or distribute bentonite slurry.

French: installation de mélange

French: meuble

German: locker

Spanish: flojo

Italian: sciolto

Portuguese: brando, frouxo, solto, fofo

Dutch: loss

Space left between timber lagging boards. Louvers permit backpacking of voids behind the boards.

Pile with minimal soil displacement, such as H, open-end pipe or sheet piles. Also called Non-Displacement Pile.

Special concrete mix designed to reduce the peak temperature during hydration of the concrete mass. Use for mass or thick concrete members such as mat foundation. Flyash is commonly used as an additive in low heat concrete.

French: ciment à faible chaleur d'hydratation

German: Zement mit niedriger Abbindewärme

Spanish: cemento de bajo calor de hidratación

Italian: cemento a basso calore d'idratazione

Portuguese: cimento de baixo calor de hidratação

Dutch: lage warmte cement

Pumping of low slump grouts (0″ to 3″) with a limited ability to travel into the ground to fill voids or compact soil.

A pile testing method by which the pile integrity is confirmed or anomalies such as necking, bulging or discontinuities are identified. One of the non-destructive methods. Unlike the High Strain Test, the soil resistance is not mobilized as the test is p

Load and Resistance Factor Design.

French: graisser

German: schmieren, ölen, einfetten

Spanish: engrasar, lubricar

Italian: lubrificare, ingrassare

Portuguese: lubrificar

Dutch: smeermiddel