SET OF SHEET PILE SETTLEMENT

SET OF SHEET PILE Fiche d'une palplanche

Foundation

The part of the sheet pile that is restrained in the ground. This sinking length is calculated in order to guarantee the stability of the sheet pile under the influence of thrusts and to satisfy the blow condition (water or ground leak in the excavation bottom).

SET ON EDGE Pos e de can

Various

Of a timber piece laid on edge. Syn. with EDGEWISE

SET WITHOUT BINDER Poser sec

Masonry

To erect a masonry construction without binder. Syn. with DRY SET

SETBACK Retraite

Construction

The break in faces of a wall that results from the disflushing of the main plane of two superimposed walls whose one has a less thickness. Syn. with INTAKE; SCARCEMENT.

See Figure 29

Figure 29
The part of a construction slightly in setback with regard to the main plane of the other one adjacent. See Figure 29a

SETBACK

Figure 29a

SETSCREW Goujon

Building Materials

Syn. with COCK; DOWEL

SETT Tranche

Equipment and Tools

A wedge-shaped tool of quarry worker on which one strikes using a sledge hammer to take down large blocks of stone.

SETTING Prise; Induration; Durcissement

Hydraulic Binders

The phenomenon of crystallization by which hydraulic binders retain the water to which they are mixed, by taking a pasty consistency then solid which, at the time of the mixing with the other ingredients of the mortar or concrete (sands, gravels, etc.) allows to form a homogeneous and strong unit.

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