Dictionary of Civil Engineering: English-French
By Jean-Paul Kurtz (ed)

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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