Civil Engineering Glossary
Civil Engineering Glossary
This glossary will help people learn about some technical words used in the civil engineering field
- beam
- noun
- Beams (plural of beam) most commonly refer to long, thick pieces of wood or metal used to support weight in buildings, or lines of light shining from a bright source.
- Example: The BEAM may not have been totally perpendicular to the supports.
- en: poutre
- bitumen
- noun
- Bitumen is a thick, black, and sticky form of petroleum that acts as a heavy binder. It is solid or semi-solid at room temperature and turns into a liquid when heated.
- Example: No example
- en: bitume
- concrete
- noun
- A strong composite material made by mixing cement, water, sand, and aggregate like gravel or crushed stone.
- Example: The college buildings are constructed primarily from glass and CONCRETE.
- en: béton
- excavator
- noun
- An excavator is a heavy-duty construction machine used for digging, lifting, and moving earth.
- en: pelle hydraulique
- foundation
- noun
- A foundation is the underlying base, physical support, or fundamental principle upon which something is built or develops.
- Example: Any understanding of this structure has been based largely on its FOUNDATION trenches and similarities between its ground plan and another arsenal in Peiraieus (Pounder, 1983: 233, 238).
- en: fondation
- infrastructure
- noun
- Infrastructure refers to the basic physical and organizational systems, structures, and facilities needed for a society, country, or organization to function properly.
- Example: Unfortunately renewable energy sources do not have the capabilities to support the current population and INFRASTRUCTURE.
- en: infrastructure
- plans
- noun
- A plan is a detailed proposal, method, or set of steps designed in advance to achieve a goal or complete a task.
- Example: At this point local residents may view the PLANS and comment on them.
- en: plans
- steel
- noun
- Steel is a strong, tough metal alloy made primarily of iron combined with a small amount of carbon, typically ranging from 0.02% to 2.1% by weight.
- Example: STEEL demand dropped from 20 million tonnes in 70s to 13.9 million tonnes in 2000.
- en: acier
- structure
- noun
- A structure is the way parts of an object, system, or organization are arranged, connected, or built together to form a whole.
- Example: A STRUCTURE with different materials that is spatially dependent on material properties, Irregular geometry, Complex boundary conditions.
- en: structure
- wood
- noun
- Wood most commonly means the hard, fibrous structural tissue found in the stems, branches, and roots of trees and shrubs.
- Example: They also found evidence for frequent rebuilding and although re-erecting new buildings from the same timbers also took place, there had to be undoubtedly enormous amount of WOOD used to build these houses over the centuries.
- en: bois
