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English translation: prestressing steel
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| 18:13 May 28, 2007 |
| Swedish to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Energy / Power Generation / power plant | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Sven Petersson Sweden Local time: 05:39 | ||||||
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| 5 +2 | prestressing steel |
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| 4 -1 | steel trusses |
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peer agreement (net): -1steel trusses Explanation: or steel components for transferring loads. As in the steel trusses that we were told that weakened & collapsed in the WTC buildings causing the floors to "pancake". http://www3.vtt.fi/palvelut/all/all_4/Betoniraudoitteet.jsp?... (I spent a summer working for Stena stål where I came across this term.) |
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peer agreement (net): +2prestressing steel Explanation: :o) Reference: http://koti.mbnet.fi/sanasto/fi.htm |
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