That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle.
a sawed section of stone usually 1/4" to 1/2" thick.
Track rails laid on a continuous concrete or asphalt base instead of conventional sleepers and ballast, to minimize settlement and changes in alignment, this helps to reduce maintenance costs.
A flat, horizontal reinforced concrete area, typically the interior floor of a building but also an exterior or roof area.
Refers to a multi-floor building of long rectangular volume.
Thick slice cut out of a solid mineral; a portion of the mineral.
a flat piece of concrete such as a driveway or floor.
Concrete foundation, serves as the base floor surface of a building
Compact block of crude steel (usually a product of the casting process in steel mills), which is used as a pre-product in hot-rolling mills to produce rolled hot strip or quarto plate.
the primary product of continuous casting; slabs are usually rectangular (though sometimes trapezoidal, i.e. a tapered slab), usually on the order of 250 mm thick, 5000 to 12000 mm long, and 300 to 1500 mm wide; thin slab technology generates slabs on the order of 50 mm thick; slabs are made into a variety of other products including hot and cold rolled sheets and coils, pipes, and plates
Pressed or rolled flat sections of clay used in hand building.
Flat surface of concrete on which home is constructed.
large, usually flat but thick piece or shape The foundation slab sank in the soft soil.
block consisting of a thick piece of something
a broad, flat, relatively thin piece of stone cut from a larger chunk of stone
a flat memorial with an effigy of the deceased, a cross, or other appropriate subject, with epitaph, cut directly into the stone
a semi-finished steel product obtained by rolling ingots on a rolling mill or processing them through a continuous caster and cutting them into various lengths
a thick, broad piece of slate
Flat angled section of rock
A very thick rectangular piece of steel for rolling down into plates.
the primary, continuously cast shape to be hot rolled into flatrolled coils
A semi-finished hot rolled product continuously cast and intended for further rolling into strip or other flat products.
A piece of metal, intermediate between ingot and plate, with the width at least twice the thickness.
The most common type of semi-finished steel. Traditional slabs measure 10 inches thick and 30-85 inches wide (and average about 20 feet long), while the output of the recently developed "thin slab" casters is approximately two inches thick. Subsequent to casting, slabs are sent to the hot-strip mill to be rolled into coiled sheet and plate products.
(concrete). A term referring to a flat area of concrete.
Flat thinnish dressed stone
Semi-finished steel product for the production of flat-rolled steel.
The term slab is a general term referring to the homogeneous nature of a cast instu, concrete floor system.
A method of hand building with a great variety of uses in which the clay is either rolled out with a rolling pin or sliced with a wire or tossed into sheets that are then used to construct a form.
A concrete floor used as a foundation in homes without basements; any concrete floor, even if an upper story.
Describes the size and shape of material at an early stage in processing. It may be continuosly cast or bloomed from an ingot. A slab is typically 8-1/2 inches (216 mm) thick, 52 inches (1321 mm) wide, and around 200 inches (5080 mm) long. It will be further processed as a hot roll band to a finished product form such as plate, sheet, or strip.
A concrete foundation or floor of a home. Houses built on slab usually do not have basements.
Compact block of crude steel, product of the casting process in the melt shop, used as a starting material in the rolling mills to produce hot strip or quarto plate.
A semi-finished steel product obtained by rolling ingots on a rolling mill or processed through a continuous caster and cut into various lengths. The slab has a rectangular cross section and is used as a starting material in the production process of flat products, i.e. hot rolled coils or plates.
A foundation or main floor formed by directly pouring a concrete pad over a properly prepared piece of ground
A type of foundation with a concrete floor placed directly on the soil.
A concrete floor poured directly onto the soil which may have a bed of gravel in it or reinforcing steel bars criss-crossed in it.
The exposed wearing surface laid over the structural support beams of a building to form the floor(s) of the building or laid slab-on-grade in the case of a non-structural, ground level concrete slab.
The exterior portion of a log removed by the saw, having one flat and one curved surface.
A flat (although sometimes ribbed on the underside) reinforced concrete element of a building which provides the base for the floor or roofing materials.
A broad, flat piece of stone cut or split from a block after quarrying. Especially used to mean the tabular sheet, ready for further fabrication, that comes from the gangsaw or wire saw.
A flat layer of poured concrete.
Please refer to the definition of "Concrete Slab" above.
A foundation built directly on soil with no basement or crawl space.
A flat piece of concrete, typically used as a walking surface, but may also serve as a load bearing device as in slab homes.
The oceanic crustal plate that underthrusts the continental plate in a subduction zone and is consumed by the earth's mantle.
A very common type of semi-finished stainless steel usually measuring 6-10 inches thick by 30-85 inches wide and average 20 feet long. After casting, slabs are sent to a strip mill where it is rolled and coiled into sheet and plate products.
An intermediate product form produced for further processing stages towards a completed flat rolled mill product like plate or sheet.
CONCRETE FLOOR POURED DIRECTLY ON AN EARTH OR GRAVEL BASE AND USUALLY ABOUT FOUR INCHES THICK. A MONOLITHIC SLAB IS ONE WITH A FOOTING THAT'S POURED AT THE SAME TIME AS THE SLAB WHICH IS THEREFORE UNDER, BUT PART OF, THE SLAB.
Also slab built. Any one of various techniques for creating ceramic objects that do not involve the use of a potters wheel. In this technique, the clay is pressed into thin slabs that are then cut, assembled, and shaped into the desired form. See also hand building, coiling, pinching.
A casting in the form of a bar used for rolling into strip.
Concrete floor placed directly on earth or gravel base and supported on the footings.
The intermediate product from a continuous caster or a roughing mill. It is always oblong in shape, mostly 50 to 230mm thick and 610 to 1250 mm wide.
A broad flat piece of wood cut directly from the log, often with bark on both edges.
relatively flat and featureless block of rock
Concrete floor placed directly on earth or a gravel base and usually about four inches thick.
Of concrete; pavement, i.e. driveways, garages, and basement floors.
For a slab foundation, the site is leveled off, and a trench is dug around the perimeter of the home site. Gravel is then spread across the site, and concrete is poured approximately four inches thick over wire mesh and a moisture barrier. In areas of load bearing walls, trenches need to be dug to allow for additional thickness at this location. Slab foundations have no piers or floor joists, and the concrete slab is the floor system.
A flattened, planeilinier piece of clay. Slabs are used, much the same way a pieces of card board would be used to construct a form. Slab construction is a hand building technique. It is fairly difficult, because clay is not as stable as building with paper. Clay shrinks and cannot hold its own weight when soft.
A concrete pad that sits on gravel or crushed rock, well-compacted soil either level with the ground or above the ground.
A concrete floor used as a foundation in homes without a basement.
continuously cast semi-finished steel product, rectangular in section and subsequently rolled into steel strips or other flat product. Though there are no precise dimensions, a slab usually has a section size ranging from 70-300mm thick and 1,000¬-3,000mm wide
The reinforced concrete floor between beams, columns or walls as any large thin area of concrete such as a wall or balcony.
a thin smalti slab or disc (pizza) which is made by pressing the fused glass on a flat surface or by drawing it through two cylinders. After annealing, the slab is cut with diamond-pointed instruments or a hammer and hardie.
1. Large horizontal pour of concrete, which serves as a foundation of a building. 2. Flat piece of material.
Flat piece of clay from which shapes can be fabricated.
Any flat piece of concrete such as a floor, driveway or walkway.
strip of concrete, poured as single piece, especially reinforced concrete floor.