Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

plancher à cassette

English translation:

coffered floor slab

Added to glossary by B D Finch
May 5, 2016 10:01
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French term

plancher à cassette

French to English Tech/Engineering Construction / Civil Engineering Quantity surveying standa
Please note this is from a BELGIAN document (standard) which contains a great many very specific Belgian usages! I am only proofing it!

There is no proper context to help define what is meant by this term, which appears in various places in connection with formwork, etc., though the juxtaposition with other items seems purely fortuitous; it seems to refer to some kind of poured concrete floor, and in fact, I suspect it refer to the underside of the poured slab; it often appears alongside 'plancher nervuré' ('ribbed floor'???!!)

I half suspect it is referring to a plancher 'à caissons' — like a coffered ceiling; these are common in this industry sector, and would be consistent with the discussion of special formwork for these and the 'planchers nervurés'. Would anyone know if this is a specificall Belgian usage meaning the same thing?

The only Google results I have found for the term used by the original translator, 'cassette floor' always bring me back to removable, modular fooring systems for use as ad hoc dance-floors in marquees etc., making me think the original translation is off the mark.

Does anyone have any idea what it refers to, and what might be the translation?

I've tried usual resources like GDT, IATE, Termium etc., but even on Google there are precious few meaningful hits — and I've not found any so far that actually helped with translating it.
Proposed translations (English)
4 coffered floor slab
Change log

May 10, 2016 18:07: B D Finch Created KOG entry

Discussion

Tony M (asker) May 5, 2016:
Thanks, Didier! Doesn't seem to be that, as far as I can ascertain.

I think it is slabs cast in situ using a series of 'upside down compartments', as commonly seen in buildings like multi-storey car-parks.

As far as I can find out, these may be referred to as 'waffle slabs'.
Didier Fourcot May 5, 2016:
plancher à prédalles? My first idea, Dicobat gives "shuttering slabs concrete floor", details to get the concept:
http://www.umgo.ffbatiment.fr/Files/pub/Fede_U04/FFB_PUBLICA...

Proposed translations

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coffered floor slab

http://materiauxdeconstructiondapresguerre.be/material/prefa...
"Ainsi, XXX produisit trois types de hourdis en béton de pierre ponce : les hourdis classiques, un plancher cassette et une combinaison des deux. Les planchers cassettes présentaient de larges creux carrés ou alcôves. Cette forme permettait de réduire le poids mort de la dalle, tandis que les nervures longitudinales et transversales des cassettes apportaient la capacité de charge et garantissaient la rigidité de la dalle. La capacité d’isolation thermique était un peu inférieure à celle des hourdis, mais la masse volumique de la dalle était davantage réduite. Schokbeton combina également les deux concepts, avec une dalle présentant une série de creux sur la longueur au sommet de l’élément et des alcôves carrées (moins profondes) à la base."

www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/...coffered...slab-floor/1... first floor of the two-storey office building consists of a series of coffered precast concrete slabs supported on precast columns. Precast was chosen for its ...



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Note added at 6 hrs (2016-05-05 16:36:28 GMT)
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I assume that you are certain that this is not a cassette floor system like this: http://www.architectureanddesign.com.au/features/features-ar...

Though this is much more usual with timber-frame construction.
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