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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

écartement des trains des roue

English translation:

Clearance of wheel trains

Added to glossary by narasimha (X)
Feb 18, 2010 14:33
14 yrs ago
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French term

écartement des trains des roue

French to English Tech/Engineering Construction / Civil Engineering
This term appears in the description of some calculations for the construction of the stands in a stadium. The entire sentence reads:
"Le porte-à faux est entré pour la marche la plus haute. Il s'écrit donc pfk(M) pour le module k. il augmente de e, écartements des trains de roues, à chaque marche lorsque m varie entre M et 0."

Thanks for your help
Proposed translations (English)
5 Clearance of wheel trains
3 +1 sets of wheels
Change log

Feb 18, 2010 14:55: Marco Solinas changed "Field (specific)" from "Electronics / Elect Eng" to "Construction / Civil Engineering"

Feb 19, 2010 16:43: narasimha (X) changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/1007227">Marco Solinas's</a> old entry - "écartement des trains des roue"" to ""Clearance of wheel trains""

Discussion

polyglot45 Feb 18, 2010:
sorry but if it is a question of wheels to roll out the tiers (cf. Strde de France), I have actually seen them and they have to be talking about the axle gauge of the vehicles because it is this WIDTH and not the wheel base, which will determine the width of the tiers
Marco Solinas (asker) Feb 18, 2010:
Tier Marche=tier
Marco Solinas (asker) Feb 18, 2010:
Stands They are tiered telescopic stands. Tiers can be added or removed by rolling them on wheels under the tier above.
polyglot45 Feb 18, 2010:
wheelset gauge please
polyglot45 Feb 18, 2010:
I presume the stands are tiered and that from one row to the next (top-down) an extra width is added and that this width corresponds to "e", which is the gauge of the wheelsets of whatever vehicles have to pass along them

Proposed translations

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Clearance of wheel trains

The overhang is set for the highest run. It is therefore written pfk(M) for the module k. It is increased by e, the clearance of the wheel trains, at each run when m varies between M and 0
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you Narashimha and Bourth"
+1
50 mins

sets of wheels

Or "lines of wheels", each "line" being made up of several "sets"?

Presumably the stands are on wheels so they can be moved about for different kinds of events, probably sliding beneath the part of the stand behind/above.

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Note added at 56 mins (2010-02-18 15:29:54 GMT)
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Oops, forgot the first bit, "distance between sets of wheels". keeping it vague, not knowing if this refers to distance across the beam or fore and aft, or both, but presumably it is the "fore and aft" distance between wheelsets or, lines of wheelsets.
Note from asker:
Thank you Bourth. Most useful.
Peer comment(s):
neutral polyglot45 : écartement is not the same as wheelbase, so be careful. It is the distance between the wheels on the left and those on the right of the vehicle to be more clear
23 mins
Certainly not wheelbase. Possibly multiple (more than two) "tracks", and multiple (more than two) axles, hence my beating around the bush.
agree Carruthers (X) : distance between wheel sets
2 hrs
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