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The last entry is le revêtement coupe-feu, and its noun is one that English borrowed long ago and then shrank. « Revetment » came over from French as a word of fortification and has stayed with the engineers ever since: it is the facing of stone, concrete or rock armour laid against an embankment, a sea wall or the slope of a rampart so that water and weather cannot eat into it. A reader who knows it from a coastal scheme pictures something heavy and permanent. Le revêtement is nothing of the kind. It comes from revêtir, to clothe, and it names whatever is laid over a surface, however thin: le revêtement de solis the floor coveringle revêtement de la chausséethe road surfacingun revêtement antiadhésifthe non-stick lining of a pan Here it is a coat of intumescent paint a few millimetres deep, which swells in a fire and keeps the steel below its critical temperature for a stated time. So the English for this entry is « fire-protective coating », and « revetment » belongs on a different drawing altogether, the one with the tide on it.
L’assemblage boulonné se démonte, la soudure non.A bolted connection can be taken apart again; a weld cannot.
le boulon précontraintthe preloaded boltNoun (m)C2
Le boulon précontraint est serré à un couple prescrit.Each preloaded bolt is tightened to a specified torque.
le cas de chargethe load caseNoun (m)C2
Chaque cas de charge se combine avec les autres.Every load case has to be combined with the others.
l’état limitethe limit stateNoun (m)C2
L’état limite de service parle du confort, pas de la ruine.The serviceability limit state is about comfort, not collapse.
le coefficient partiel de sécuritéthe partial safety factorNoun (m)C2
Le coefficient partiel de sécurité frappe la charge et la matière séparément.One partial safety factor is applied to the load and another to the material.
l’ordre de montagethe erection sequenceNoun (m)C2
L’ordre de montage se calcule comme la structure finie.The erection sequence is analysed as carefully as the finished frame.
le contreventement provisoirethe temporary bracingNoun (m)C2
Le contreventement provisoire tient la charpente jusqu’au dernier assemblage.Temporary bracing holds the frame up until the last connection is made.
le revêtement coupe-feuthe fire-protective coatingNoun (m)C2
Le revêtement coupe-feu retarde l’échauffement de l’acier.A fire-protective coating slows down the heating of the steel.
