Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

forage destructif à l'eau

English translation:

hydraulic rotary drilling

Added to glossary by Howard Sugar
Mar 9, 2015 06:47
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French term

forage destructif à l'eau

French to English Tech/Engineering Environment & Ecology soil and groundwater inve
Des piézomètres profonds ont été réalisés après isolation par cimentation et tubage de la nappe perchée (double casing) en forage destructif à l’eau (rotary)
Proposed translations (English)
4 +2 hydraulic rotary drilling
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Mar 23, 2015 05:49: Howard Sugar Created KOG entry

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hydraulic rotary drilling

Forage destructif is translated into English as rotary drilling. (the destructif part means the core is destroyed and not removed) (see http://www.anzeve.com/data/consumibles/g_d_geotecnia_2.pdf)
Example sentence:

Hydraulic rotary rigs can be small and portable or can be huge and capable of drilling through thousands of metres of the Earth's crust.

SD20A hydraulic rotary drilling rig, its main performance reaches advanced level of its same kind in the world.

Peer comment(s):

agree Nicola-Jane Alexandra Stevenson
29 mins
agree B D Finch : It might be removed, but after destruction, not as an intact core.
2 hrs
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