cortina (in this context)

English translation: Dam wall

18:11 Oct 20, 2009
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Energy / Power Generation / Mexico
Spanish term or phrase: cortina (in this context)
Desde el mismo mirador se observa el embalse de la presa de Chicoasén, una de las hidroeléctricas más importantes de México, cuya cortina mide 260 m de altura y genera un promedio anual de 5580 gigawatts. Junto a la cortina, el monumento a Manuel Moreno Torres, su constructor, conmemora el esfuerzo que significó erigirla.
Patricia Rosas
United States
Local time: 05:07
English translation:Dam wall
Explanation:
Mi sugerencia.

Nota técnica. Simulación de la ruptura de la cortina de la presa ...Simulación de la ruptura de la cortina de la presa La Parota, Guerrero, México, ... Dam wall break simulation by means of a high resolution algorithm ...
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Carlos Ruestes
Argentina
Local time: 09:07
Grading comment
Thank you for your help! I checked up on the curtain, and it appears to be interior membrane inside the concrete walls.
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4 +1Dam wall
Carlos Ruestes
3 +1concrete curtain
liz askew
4core wall
patinba
3exposed wall...
slothm


  

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Dam wall


Explanation:
Mi sugerencia.

Nota técnica. Simulación de la ruptura de la cortina de la presa ...Simulación de la ruptura de la cortina de la presa La Parota, Guerrero, México, ... Dam wall break simulation by means of a high resolution algorithm ...
www.imta.mx/.../index.php?... - En caché - Similares

Carlos Ruestes
Argentina
Local time: 09:07
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 25
Grading comment
Thank you for your help! I checked up on the curtain, and it appears to be interior membrane inside the concrete walls.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  cranesfreak: Dam wall=pared o cortina de la represa. Saludos a todos :))
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exposed wall...


Explanation:
The face of the wall in front of the dam.

slothm
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concrete curtain


Explanation:
Información sobre las Centrales Hidroeléctricas o Presas más ...
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La Presa Hidroeléctrica “Aguamilpa” en Nayarit fue concluida en 1993 y está conformada por una cortina de concreto de 187 metros de altura, la más alta de ...
www.explorandomexico.com.mx/about-mexico/6/247/ - Cached – Similar



nformation about the most important Hydroelectric Plants in ...
Hydroelectric Dam “Aguamilpa” in Nayarit was concluded in 1993 and is formed by a concrete curtain 187 meters high, the highest of its type in Latin America ...
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Repeat- Writings on Architecture: Crawling into the Bunker
... behind what Ramstack calls a "curtain wall" of concrete barriers. ... Just as the 187-foot-high, windowless bunker base of David Child's new design for ...
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Stability of the Gor'kii Hydroelectric station concrete dam during ...
It comists of a vertical, massive, reinforced-concrete wall cut into the Urzhum rocks and a horizontal, .... of the increased, as opposed to the design,uplift and high-water levels in ... hydroelectric station dam for the main 1 and special ... The shear resistance of the reinforced-concrete curtain was not taken ...
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RCC dam construction and method - US Patent 4659252 Claims
The dam structure of claim 9, wherein said membranes and welded sealing strips are positioned between said concrete panels and the poured concrete curtain ...
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8.4-9 Positions of Curtains at Dams For storage dams, grout curtain positions ... The membrane is the water barrier and is usually either concrete, asphalt, ...
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The Concrete Curtain
to stare point blank at the giant dam that enthralls engineers. enrages ... concrete curtain, just a few dozen feet away. The image of a curtain plagues me: ...
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liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:07
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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agree  Mauricio Coitiño
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core wall


Explanation:
as per Robb engineering dictionary

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Note added at 4 hrs (2009-10-20 23:07:13 GMT)
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Chicoasén is a core dam

Construction of the Chicoasen dam - 15:01 - [ Traducir esta página ]
The Chicoasen hydraulic development is a part of a four-plant system with embankment .... Cuts under the dam core in the canyon sides are not contemplated, ...
www.springerlink.com/index/Q0839N1111UXP200.pdf - Similares -
de AA Borovoi - 1977
Stablity of a pebble dam with an injected core - [ Traducir esta página ]
section can be varied -- for example, the location of zones of plastic clay in the core of the Chicoasen dam in Mexico for reducing the arching effect ...
www.springerlink.com/index/W348V56X73704512.pdf - Similares -
de LN Rasskazov - 1984 - Citado por 1 - Artículos relacionados - Las 2 versiones
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Advanced dam engineering for design, construction, and rehabilitation - Resultado de la Búsqueda de libros de Google
de Robert B. Jansen - 1988 - Technology & Engineering - 811 páginas
In many cases, such as at Chicoasen,'8 Areia,7 Courtright,1' and Salt ... to crack development in and adjacent to the core zone of earth core rockfill dams, ...
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[PDF] IRAPE DAM STRESS AND STRAIN NUMERICAL PREVISIONS AND MEASUREMENT ... - [ Traducir esta página ]
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transmitted to the lower portions of the dam core was attained. ..... Construction of Chicoasén Dam”. Mexico – Contribution to the XIII International ...
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Three-Dimensional Behavior of a Central Core Dam. - [ Traducir esta página ]
A three-dimensional finite element computer program is used to investigate the stress and displacement conditions of a dam situated in a narrow steep-walled ...
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de ARMY ENGINEER WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION VICKSBURG MISS - 1972 - Las 3 versiones
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de Harry R. Cedergren - 1997 - Technology & Engineering - 496 páginas
(a) Thin, sloping core dam. (b) Thick, sloping core dam. (c) Central core dam. (d) Dam with chimney drain and outlet blanket drain. ...
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patinba
Argentina
Local time: 09:07
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 141
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