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Перевод: asphalt

[прилагательное]
асфальтовый;
[существительное]
асфальт ; битум ;
[глагол]
асфальтировать; покрывать асфальтом

Тезаурус:

1. I fell hard against the asphalt playground and I felt the pain that had not been visible on film.
2. Mastic asphalt can be laid over any deck but, in general, a general, a concrete base is preferred.
3. Asphalt was often used as a flat-roof surface in older buildings in locations where it was appreciated that a sheet-metal covering would prove unsuitable because of the very large area of roof or where regular foot traffic was anticipated.
4. On reflection, the owner felt that it would have been better adopt the traditional method of "tanking" the semi-basement lower floor with in situ asphalt.
5. Eventual physical breakdown of the material is delayed by careful preparation of the substratum and it has always been safer to lay asphalt on concrete roof slabs than on timber boarding.
6. On flat surfaces this action is minimised by laying a carpet of light-reflective white limestone chippings on the asphalt, but this treatment cannot be extended to sloping sections or to roofs carrying regular foot-traffic.
7. Where problems associated with water penetration have occurred on mastic asphalt roofs, it is usually as a result of failure from one or more of the following: incorrectly detailed or ignored movement joints, penetration through parapet walls, wrongly positioned or damaged damp proof courses, blocked rainwater outlets, condensation, failure to provide a suitable finish, or physical damage in use.
8. But elsewhere neatly swept asphalt pathways still connect hundreds of modest brickwork sheds, built in the 1940s and nestling within protective earthen ramparts where generations of rabbits have nibbled the grass to a close trim.
9. The felt acts as a membrane which isolates movement in the boards from the asphalt, the natural elasticity of which may not be sufficient to absorb such movement.
10. Similarly, repairs and maintenance should only be carried out by a specialist mastic asphalt contractor.
11. Where a defective asphalt roof on boarding is to be renewed, the level boarded surface must be covered with bituminous felt before the asphalt is applied.
12. Laying down broad belts of asphalt might, by developing thermal convention, lead to increased precipitation.
13. One great advantage of asphalt over other forms of sheet roof covering is its tolerance to being "patched" in situ.