From Dictionary of Civil Engineering: English-French

SCANTLING SCRAPER-LOADER

SCANTLING Bois quarri; Volige
Building Materials
  1. Syn. with SQUARED TIMBER; SQUARE-SAWN TIMBER

  2. A board of small thickness. Syn. with BATTEN

SCAPE Escape
Architecture
A softening for linking and connecting, with the shafts of columns, fillets by which these ones ending.
SCAPUS Escape
Construction
The shaft of a column or lower part of this shaft.
SCARCEMENT Retraite; En retraite
Construction
  1. Syn. with INTAKE; SET BACK

  2. Syn. with INTAKE; OFFSET.

SCARF Abuter
Construction
Syn. with ABUT
SCARF (JOINT) Enture; Raboutage
Foundation
Syn. with HEADING JOINT; SPLICE; SPLICING
SCARF-JOINTED BEAM B cheret
Carpentry
Structural member made up of two joined, very long wedge-shaped elements and having the same thickness on its entire length. Syn. with SCARF JOINT. See Figure 9

SCARF-JOINTED BEAM


Figure 9
SCARFING Encastrement; Endentement
Carpentry
  1. Syn. with BUILDING-IN; ENCASED

  2. An assembly constituted by a succession of teeth fitting together the ones into the others.

SCARFING PLATE Appendice
Welding
Syn. with STRIKING PLATE; TAIL
SCARIFICATION Scarification
Earthwork
The loosening of a ground with a scarifier.
SCARIFIER Scarificateur
Equipment and Tools
An earthmoving plant with downward projecting teeth for breaking hard soil at quarries and opencast pits, before the passage of bulldozers or scrapers. It is frequently equipped in front of a grader and has similar teeth to those of a rooter, which one can notice or low using a mechanical servomotor or hydraulic actuating cylinders. It may be self-propelled or attached to another vehicle.
SCHEDULE OF PRICES Bordereau de prix
Contract
Syn. with PRICE LIST; SCHEDULE OF RATES
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Products & Services
Carpentry and Framing Services
Carpentry and framing services install and erect structural building frames, doors and windows, and interior fixtures such as cabinetry.
Hand Saws
Hand saws are hand-held tools, either powered or manually-driven, that are designed to cut through softer materials. They accomplish cutting using a hard, serrated blade, or by using a wire with an abrasive edge.
Mining Wear Parts and Excavating Wear Parts
Mining wear parts and excavating wear parts are commonly-replaced components that are used in mineral and aggregate extraction and processing. Examples include buckets, shovels, teeth, dragline parts, grinding mill liners, crawler shoes, links, clevises, and wear plates.
Lifting and Rigging Attachments
Lifting and rigging attachments are used on a crane or hoist between the hook and the item to be lifted. Items include sling release systems, product specific lifters, clamps and grapples.
Distance Meters
Measuring tools are used to measure the distance between two locations or objects.

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