Vocaboli in lingua inglese – Settore Costruzioni Edili
Acciaio (per cemento armato):
concrete steel
Steel used in reinforced concrete, which should comply with standard
specifications for prestressed concrete.
- trave a traliccio:
lattice girder
An open girder, beam, or column
built from members joined and braced by intersecting diagonal bars. Also known
as open-web girder.
Cemento armato (c.a) (conglomerato cementizio armato): reinforced
concrete
Concrete containing reinforcing steel rods or wire mesh.
- Armatura metallica:
concrete steel
Steel used in reinforced concrete,
which should comply with standard specifications for prestressed concrete.
- Casseforme:
formwork
A temporary wooden casing used to contain concrete during its placing
and hardening. Also known as shuttering.
- Getto:
cast
Any object which is formed by
placing a castable substance in a mold or form and allowing it to solidify.
Also known as casting.
- Stagionatura:
curing
A process for bringing freshly
placed concrete to required strength and quality by maintaining the humidity
and temperature at specified levels for a given period of time. Also known as
seasoning.
- Pilastro:
pilaster, column, pillar
A vertical rectangular architectural
member that is structurally a pier and architecturally a column.
- Trave:
beam
A body, with one dimension large compared
with the other dimensions, whose function is to carry lateral loads
(perpendicular to the large dimension) and bending movements.
- Solaio:
floor
The bottom, horizontal surface of an
enclosed space.
Fondazione :
foundation
1 The ground that supports a
building or other structure.
2 The portion of a structure which transmits the building load to the ground.
- f. continua:
raft foundation
A continuous footing that supports an entire structure, such as a
floor. Also known as foundation mat.
- f. a pilastri:
bearing pile
(palo di fondazione)
A vertical post or pile which carries the weight of a foundation, transmitting
the load of a structure to the bedrock or subsoil without detrimental
settlement.
- f. a platea :
grade slab
(piastra di fondazione)
A reinforced concrete slab placed directly on the ground to provide the
foundation for the superstructure.
- trave rovescia:
grade beam
(trave di fondazione)
A reinforced concrete beam placed directly on the ground to provide the
foundation for the superstructure.
- f. a travi incrociate:
grillage
(intelaiatura di fondazione)
A footing that consists of two or more tiers of closely spaced structural steel
beams resting on a concrete block, each tier being at right angles to the one
below.
- plinti isolati:
independent footing
A footing that supports a concentrated load, such as a single column.
- f. a platea:
mat foundation
A large, thick, usually reinforced concrete mat which transfers loads from
a number of columns, or columns and walls, to the underlying rock or soil. Also
known as raft foundation.
- f. su pali:
pile foundation
A substructure supported on piles.
Legno:
wood
Lumber or timber obtained from
trees.
-lamellare:
glulam
A material fabricated by joining two
or more layers of wood with an adhesive so that the grains of all the layers
are approximately parallel.
- Capriata:
roof truss
A truss used in roof construction;
it carries the weight of roof deck and framing and of wind loads on the upper
chord; an example is a Fink truss.
- Capriata semplice:
king post
truss
A wooden roof truss having two
principal rafters held by a horizontal tie beam, a king post upright between
tie beam and ridge, and usually two struts to the rafters from a thickening at
the king post foot.
Muratura:
masonry
A construction of stone or similar
materials such as concrete or brick.
- mattone o blocco forato:
building
block
A hollow block, either of burned
clay or concrete, used in constructing the walls of buildings, and often faced
with brick or stone.
- blocco ad "A":
A block
A hollow concrete masonry block with
one end closed and the other open and with a web between, so that when the
block is laid in a wall two cells are produced.
- laterizio:
structural tile
A hollow clay product which may be load-bearing or non-load-bearing;
used for facing, flooring, or partitions.
- m. in pietra da taglio:
ashlar
Masonry with an exposed side of square or rectangular stones.
- m. in pietra:
stonework
A structure or the part of a structure built of stone.
- m. in calcestruzzo:
concrete masonry
Building units composed of block,
brick, or tile laid by masons.
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Tramezzo:
bearing partition
(tramezzo portante; parete divisoria portante)
A partition which supports a vertical load.
- Muro divisorio:
division wall
A wall used to create major
subdivisions in a building.
- Parete divisoria:
partition
An interior wall having a height of
one story or less, which divides a structure into sections.
Solaio:
floor
- solaio prefabbricato:
lift-slab construction
Pouring reinforced concrete roof and
floor slabs at ground level, then lifting them into position after hardening.
- struttura di un solaio:
floor framing
Floor joists together with their
strutting and supports.
- costruzione a travi e solaio:
beam-and-slab floor
A floor system in which a concrete floor slab is supported by
reinforced concrete beams.
Tetto:
roof
The cover of a building or similar
structure.
- tetto a una falda:
shed roof
A flat roof that slopes in one
direction and may lean against another wall or building. Also known as lean-to
roof.
- tetto piano:
flat roof
A roof pitched only enough to allow
water to drain off.
- tetto a padiglione:
hip roof
A roof having four slopes; the two
shorter ends are triangular.
- tetto a botte:
barrel roof
A roof of semicylindrical section;
capable of spanning long distances parallel to the axis of the cylinder.
- tetto piano non
praticabile: deck roof
A roof that is nearly flat and
without parapet walls.
- tetto a due falde su timpano:
gable roof
A sloping peaked roof that forms a
gable at each end.