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SECTION III

TRANSLATION PRACTICE

 

Work algorithm

Step 1. Read the text.

Step 2. Define the possible source of the text and its target audience.

Step 3. Define the purpose of the text.

Step 4. Define the thesis statement.

Step 5. Define the main ideas that support the thesis statement.

Step 6. Define the typological features of the text.

Step 7. Define the translation domains conditioned by the typological features of the text.

Step 8. Translate the text.

 

Text 1

 

The Test Plan

Engineers at the Seismo-Build research project would not be worried or even surprised next month if their new building collapsed under the force of a powerful simulated earthquake.

They have constructed a 167-square-metre, 36,288-kilo, wood-frame, mid-rise experimental building, which they plan to attach to the top of the massive piston-powered E-Defense shake table in Japan, the largest in the world. Before the shake begins, the building will be fitted with 240 displacement, strain and acceleration sensors and 50 LED light markers to allow optical monitoring via motion-recording video cameras.

Once secured to the shake table, the building will be subjected to a series of three incrementally-increasing seismic simulations, starting with magnitude 6.7, then 7.1 and finally 7.5. between tests, no repairs will be carried out to any damage to the building.

The building is fitted with seismic dampers, each one about 44 centimetres long and 7.6 centimetres thick, attached to the base of triangular steel frames embedded within the walls of the house. Each fluid-filled damper is capable of absorbing kinetic energy, converting it into heat up to 93°C and dissipating up to 6,800 kilos of force, or the equivalent of 20 car shock absorbers.

The engineers expect the dampers to absorb much of the energy from the movement of the house, but they don’t know yet whether this would be enough to protect it from damage, as they hope.

The team fully accepts that it could suffer significant damage and could even collapse completely. It is, after all, a destructive test. However, even a total collapse would provide useful data.

The project team have a clear purpose in running this three-test experiment. They hope that the tests will yield significant data about how well the seismic dampers cushion the effects of the three simulated earthquakes on the building.

If successful, the experiment could change the way wood-frame buildings are designed and built in earthquake zones. The experiment is part of a long-running engineering project to design economical easy-to-build wood-frame houses that can withstand powerful earthquakes.

 

Text 2

 

HOW THE DAMAGE TO THE LHC WAS REPAIRED

First, before any repair work could begin, the magnets had to be heated up from their low temperatures at absolute zero to room temperature. The warm-up process took about a month.

The next step was to isolate the magnets from one other. This was done by opening up the interconnections between each faulty magnet and its neighbours.

Next, each damaged magnet was lifted up to the surface. The magnets are 15 metres long and weigh 20-30 tonnes. They had to be raised approximately 100 metres up a shaft to ground level, while being kept perfectly parallel to the floor.

The damaged magnets were then inspected at a nearby above-ground site. Following this check-up, essentials repairs were carried out on a total of 205 electrical interconnections.

At the same time, over 4 kilometres of beam tube – the pipe which carries the beam of sub-atomic particles through the magnets – had to undergo a complete clean-out following the incident. This was done by pulling a large pad dipped in alcohol along the inside of the tube.

A restraint system was fitted to the magnets to tie them down and prevent them from being thrown off their supports in future.

Hundreds of helium pressure release valves were also installed around each magnet to prevent any build-up of pressure in the future.

After repairs, the magnets were taken back to their original locations, and then lowered carefully into position between their neighbours.

Once the magnets were in place, the electrical cables between them were connected up. The connections were coated in copper, which was then heated under pressure to solder the parts together.

Finally, all the magnets were connected up and tested, and then the temperature was brought down again to absolute zero.

As for the future, to prevent such accidents from happening again, the whole meltdown warning system was given a major upgrade.

Hundreds of new detectors were installed around the magnets to constantly monitor the status of the interconnections and initiate an automatic shutdown of power to the magnets in case of any problem.

 

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