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Aug 30, 2017 09:39
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French term

étalomètre

French to English Tech/Engineering Construction / Civil Engineering concrete
Technical specs of a special concrete.

"Etalement de la matière sans fibres :
Cône ASTM, 0 choc avec étalomètre humide (cm) :
250+25 mm à 3 minutes maximum après levée du cône"

Used, apparently, for measuring how concrete spreads. You can find numerous pictures of this thing (low-tech) by googling. I also found a couple of bilingual patents where the EN uses the FR word. An engineering type person might recognise the term from the photos.
Proposed translations (English)
3 (base) plate
4 slump-flow test/ flow table test

Discussion

Mpoma (asker) Mar 5, 2018:
In the end ... I put "slump measurement board". NB it can be seen online that this is far from something high-tech: the "xxxmètre" name is rather amusing to English ears... although I'm not saying it's not a very accurate piece of kit and does the job no doubt brilliantly...
Mpoma (asker) Aug 30, 2017:
Thanks "(wet) slump board"? "(wet) spread board" ? ... judging by the photos which come up these seem close... but the étalomètres seem to have some stumpy cylinder in the middle. NB "spreadometer" produces no promising photos (not that this is a definitive indicator either way, of course). One of those cases where one regrets the fact that French construction industry companies seem particularly devoted to monolingualism...
Marco Solinas Aug 30, 2017:
Spread test A concrete spread test measures how far a given volume of concrete mix spreads over a flat table. You could see whether the test described in these two sites resembles the test discussed in your document: https://books.google.ca/books?id=4YkSmHSmWE4C&pg=PA305&lpg=P... , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lmpi2OlkvA
philgoddard Aug 30, 2017:
You don't say whether you've considered "spreadometer".
chris collister Aug 30, 2017:
flow vs. slump ? "Flow" tends to imply that the concrete/cement is "flowing" continuously, though obviously it only flows out to some radius before it stops. Wet concrete is rheologically slightly peculiar, being neither liquid nor solid, but a wet cylinder certainly collapses from an upright to a "slumped" position before coming to rest.
Mpoma (asker) Aug 30, 2017:
@Mair A-W Thanks... in fact I've just found in GDT that "essai d'étalement", specifically in the field of concrete, is "flow table test". "Flow table" I therefore conclude to be a pretty promising candidate...! However the photos when you google "flow table concrete" show something a bit more sophisticated. Hmm. Maybe you're right: "flow plate" or some such...
Mair A-W (PhD) Aug 30, 2017:
I think the Cône ASTM is the cone thing, the étalomètre is possibly what is merely referred to as a "plate" (with xx diameter markings) here: http://www.concrete.org.uk/fingertips-nuggets.asp?cmd=displa...
At least, I rather think the English just refer to a cone to mean the whole thing, while the french call it cone-[x]-avec-etalometre.
Mpoma (asker) Aug 30, 2017:
Thanks Thanks... In my terms database I have "slump" as equivalent to "affaissement" when we're talking concrete. "Abrams cone slump test", all that stuff. Maybe testing "slump"/"affaissement" is different to testing "spread"/"étalement"? Unlike you I have 0 hands-on experience. In the photos it just looks like a board made of plastic to me.
chris collister Aug 30, 2017:
slump? Many years ago I enjoyed a summer student job as a concrete technician. Testing involved pouring the wet concrete that was about to be used for some important pillar or other into a top cone, releasing a trapdoor and allowing it to fall into a bottom cone. Memory is a bit hazy from this point, but it was generally referred to as a slump test. See http://www.concrete.org.uk/fingertips-nuggets.asp?cmd=displa...
The French device seems quite different physically but may nevertheless do the same job.

Proposed translations

4 hrs
Selected

(base) plate

whether yours is flow test or slump test, I think the equipment is much the same:
(slump test)
https://books.google.de/books?id=43zvAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA174&lpg=P...
Apparatus: Cone mould, base plate, ... (description of the base plate further down the page)

(slump test)
https://books.google.de/books?id=RGolDwAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA29&lp...
All tools should be dampened, including the cone, rod and plate

(flow/spread table test)
https://books.google.de/books?id=ubJ7Nj8VfOkC&pg=PA20&lpg=PA...

Mould, ... base, ...
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2 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "thanks... in the end I put "slump measurement board""
2 hrs

slump-flow test/ flow table test

These terms seem to be used for similar forms of measuring the spread of concrete.
http://www.concrete.org.uk/fingertips-nuggets.asp?cmd=displa...
http://www.concrete.org.uk/fingertips-nuggets.asp?cmd=displa...

Depending on your images you can probably take your pick!

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Note added at 2 hrs (2017-08-30 11:45:58 GMT)
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Sorry - only just seen the discussion thread, so not sure how relevant this is - I will leave it here for you to look at anyway

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Note added at 2 hrs (2017-08-30 11:47:01 GMT)
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Sorry - only just seen the discussion thread so not sure how relevant this is, but will leave it here for you to look at anyway!
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