Dilatation conventionnelle à l'humidité

English translation: conventional moisture exansion

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French term or phrase:Dilatation conventionnelle à l\'humidité
English translation:conventional moisture exansion
Entered by: John Farebrother

13:10 Apr 13, 2021
French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Construction / Civil Engineering / Engineering test report
French term or phrase: Dilatation conventionnelle à l'humidité
Le présent document s'applique aux briques de terre cuite, utilisées en France, pour la construction d'ouvrages de maçonnerie conformément à la norme P 10-202 (référence DTU 20.1) et à l'Eurocode 6 (ENV 1996-1-1). Il définit les formes courantes de ces produits. Il spécifie les caractéristiques complémentaires, auxquelles doivent répondre les briques de terre cuite destinées aux constructions de maçonnerie conformes à la norme P 10-202 (référence DTU 20-1), telles que la résistance au gel-dégel des briques ainsi que la dilatation conventionnelle à l'humidité pour toutes les briques de terre cuite, selon des mesures effectués conformément aux méthodes d'essais correspondantes. Il indique la classification des différentes briques de terre cuite et précise les classes de résistance à la compression, selon des mesures effectuées conformément à la norme NF EN 772-1.
John Farebrother
United Kingdom
conventional moisture exansion
Explanation:
why not conventional, knowing that we usually refer to the CME (coeeficient of moisture expansion)
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Dominique Stiver
France
Local time: 07:15
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Merci
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4 +2normal moisture expansion
Marge Hogarty
3 +2usual moisture expansion
Bashiqa
4 +1conventional moisture exansion
Dominique Stiver
3 -1the expected expansions caused by humidity or dampness
Lisa Rosengard


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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
usual moisture expansion


Explanation:

NF EN ISO 10545-10 December 1997

Ceramic tiles and slabs - Part 10: determination of moisture expansion.


Bashiqa
France
Local time: 07:15
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  ormiston: Is this really the term? Moisture doesn't itself expand! I'd have thought it was a swelling due todamp
12 mins
  -> I didn`t write the reference.

agree  Cyril Tollari: Just use 'moisture expansion'. We don't use 'dilatation conventionnelle à l'humidité' anymore, but simply 'dilatation à l'humidité'
16 mins
  -> Thank you.

agree  Tony M: Standard way of expressing 'expansion due to moisture' — nothing to do with 'damp'!
2 hrs
  -> Thank you, sounds much better than expansion due to alcohol
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
conventional moisture exansion


Explanation:
why not conventional, knowing that we usually refer to the CME (coeeficient of moisture expansion)


    Reference: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2003ESASP.540..567P
Dominique Stiver
France
Local time: 07:15
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Merci

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agree  Tony M
2 hrs
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51 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
normal moisture expansion


Explanation:
Meaning is the same as the other translations, but this just sounds better to my ear.

Marge Hogarty
United States
Local time: 02:15
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agree  philgoddard
3 mins

agree  Bashiqa: I hesitated between normal and usual.
45 mins
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1 day 17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
the expected expansions caused by humidity or dampness


Explanation:
"The additional or complementary features are specified while the normally accepted shapes or forms of the product are defined, to which clay bricks or slabs conform as they are intended for the standardized masonry constructions, so that the clay bricks or slabs are resistant to frost, along with their expected expansions caused by humidity or dampness for all the clay slabs, as they are measured with the relevant test methods."

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Note added at 4 days (2021-04-17 17:28:11 GMT)
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Note the reference which explains the thermal expansion of clay bricks caused by temperature changes which cause water condensation and dampness. Conventional expansions follow the accepted customs. Clay bricks are more than one. Temperature changes are more than one.
https://www.claytile.co.za/clay-brick-vs-concrete/



Example sentence(s):
  • "Il spécifie les caractéristiques complémentaires de ces produits et il définie les formes courantes auxquelles doivent répondre les briques de terre cuites, ainsi que la résistance au gel-dégel des briques.
  • Il y a aussi la dilatation conventionnelle à l'humidité pour toutes les briques de terre cuite, selon des mesures effectués conformément aux méthodes d'essai correspondantes."
Lisa Rosengard
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:15
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 15

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Tony M: There is no justification here to make 'expansion' plural, 'expected' is over-translation for 'conventionnelle, and 'dampness' is inappropriate here for 'humidité'
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