Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

cortina de betão plástico

English translation:

plastic-concrete (cut-off) wall

Added to glossary by Fiona Gonçalves
Aug 14, 2005 19:57
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Portuguese term

cortina de betão plástico

Portuguese to English Tech/Engineering Energy / Power Generation dams
Last one! This seems to be a part of the dam as shown in a cross section. Again, needless to say, I don't have access to the diagram. Could it be as simple as plastic concrete curtain?

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Portuguese term (edited): cortina de bet�o pl�stico
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plastic-concrete (cut-off) wall

The construction of the secant pile plastic concrete wall was the most ... a deep plastic concrete cut-off wall and a RCC wall on top of D/S coffer dam. ...
www.ejge.com/2005/Ppr0518/Ppr0518.htm

Plastic concrete diaphragm walls are generally constructed as cut-off walls across dam foundations to minimize seepage losses. These walls are mostly constructed in river alluvium. The loss of plastic concrete into voids can be predicted and controlled. On important projects two such walls are constructed in series for water tightness. Recently a seepage measurement system has been constructed at forty- year old Jatiluhur dam in Indonesia. The work involved construction of plastic concrete cut-off wall in rock-fill. This unique and difficult experience of constructing plastic concrete wall in rock-fill environment has been described in this paper.
www.ejge.com/2005/Ppr0518/Abs0518.htm

a dam with an arched shape that resists the force of water pressure; ... solid concrete walls that resist shear forces; often used in buildings constructed ...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/glossary.html


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Portuguese term (edited): cortina de bet�o pl�stico

plastic concrete wall

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The dam is 105 m high at its deepest section, 10 m wide and 1200 m long at the ... The construction of the secant pile plastic concrete wall was the most ...
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ejge paper 2005 -0518 - [ Traduzir esta página ]Construction of Seepage Measurement System at Jatiluhur Dam, Indonesia ... and difficult experience of constructing plastic concrete wall in rock-fill ...
www.ejge.com/2005/Ppr0518/Abs0518.htm - 4k - Em cache - Páginas Semelhantes

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Portuguese term (edited): cortina de bet�o pl�stico

plastic concrete diaphragm wall

Diaphragm wall is the expression, look:

MORE EFFICIENT SOLUTIONS FOR COMPLEX PROJECTS Mud Mountain Dam MUD ...
The cut-off under the dam is provided by a plastic concrete diaphragm wall. The ground down to the underlying basalt consists of compact clayey silts and ...
www.soletancheinc.com/works_wash.htm

Diaphragm Wall
... Ozat-II Water Resources Project. Providing 60 Cm. thick Plastic concrete Diaphragm wall. The Exe. Engineer Irrigation Dept. JUNAGADH, Rs. 33.25 Millions, May 1997 ...
www.vmmcl.com/projects-5.htm

[PDF] ASCE Geotechnical and Construction
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bentonite slurry cut-off wall or perhaps a plastic concrete diaphragm wall. Once again, there were key specification requirements that effectively limited ...
www.geocon.net/pdf/paper06.pdf

[PDF] NAPEGG NEWSLETTER
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and includes a plastic concrete diaphragm wall which extends. through both the fill and the till foundation. The wall is married to ...
www.napegg.nt.ca/newsletters/summer03/2003_Summer_Newslette...

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