SCRAPING SCRIBING LINE

SCRAPING D crottage; Ravalement; Ripage; Grattage

Masonry; Painting

The removal of the adherent mortar on materials coming from demolitions with intent to reuse them.
Correcting the small irregularities of a facing.
Syn. with DRAGGING; POLISHING
An operation that consists in taking off oxides (rust, smithsonite) before painting and that is carried out with hand-driven or pneumatic tools. Syn. with STRIPPING

SCRAPING Rabotage; Ripage; D capage; Repiquage

Earthwork

An operation that consists in tearing off scales or shavings using teeth or blades slightly sloping to the surface to be excavated. Many machines can be used to execute scraping work: we can mainly distinguish: scrapers, (drag) scrapers, scraper planes, various shovel loaders, rippers, bulldozers, graders.
Syn. with STRIPPING
Scouring any soil less than 0.25 m deep.

SCRAPS Riblons

Materials

Syn. with STEEL SCRAPS

SCRATCH Ribber

Masonry

To streak the facing of a stone.

SCRATCH HARDNESS Duret des pierres

Building Materials

The relative ease or difficulty with which stone may be scratched or nicked by a hard body. To determine their hardness, one measures the width of a scratch made on a test specimen under specified conditions. Another test establishes a classification according to the strength under crushing. Stones are then graded: very soft, soft, semifirm, firm, hard, very hard.

SCRATCH HARDNESS TEST Essai de duret la rayure

Test of Materials (Building Materials)

A test by scratching a groove, under constant load, with a Vickers diamond.

SCRATCH TEST Essai de rayure

Test of Materials (Building Materials)

A determination test of the superficial...

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