SAND TRAP SAW ROUND

SAND TRAP Dessableur

Sanitary Engineering and Drainage

A construction or device intended for the sanding off. Syn. with GRIT CHAMBER

SANDBAG METHOD M thode des sacs sable

Temporary Construction

A former process of vault decenter constituted by bags in strong fabric filled with dry sand, girthed and strongly tightened between soles of bearing by wedges, the centering being posed on provisional bearings. To decenter, one removed with the axe provisional bearings then one gradually emptied bags. It was a very complex system which was slightly used.

SANDBANK Gr vi re; Allaise

Building Materials; Hydrology

Syn. with STRAND PIT
Syn. with DEPOSITS; INCREASE

SANDBLAST Jet de sable; Sabler

Work

A pressurized throwing of sand used to clean a facing, a metal part, etc.

We can distinguish:
- dry sandblast ( le jet de sable sec), sandblasting using a flow of compressed air on the material to be cleaned;
- wet sandblast or moist sandblast ( le jet de sable humide) that consists in accompanying by water the sand blast. Parameters and results are similar to those of the dry jet but water softens and homogenizes the effect of sand.
To clean a surface by sandblasting.

SANDBLASTED Sabl

Building Materials

Of a state of a surface having undergone a sandblasting.

SANDBLASTING Sablage

Work

A method of cleaning metal and masonry surfaces with sand sprayed over them through a nozzle at high velocity.

In metallurgy, the sandblasting is designed to clean mechanically rusted surfaces or covered by smithsonite, before...

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