Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

L\'éducation

English translation:

educating a piece made of shape memory alloy

Added to glossary by Claire Harmer
Jul 28, 2012 16:21
11 yrs ago
French term

L'éducation

French to English Medical Meteorology
The following appears in a Quality Manual for a company and I am unsure how to translate 'l'éducation' in the context below

Une intégration complète de la chaîne de production, depuis la fusion et la transformation de l’alliage à mémoire de forme jusqu’à l’éducation de pièces finies et leurs contrôles.'

Also- 'fusion' is causing a problem!

Here is the translation so far:
A fully integrated production chain, from the production and transformation of the Shape-Memory Alloy to the monitoring and ......(l'education).... of the finished products.

Any help would be much appreciated:)

Thank you,

Claire

Discussion

SJLD Jul 29, 2012:
fusion = smelting, no?
Nikki Scott-Despaigne Jul 29, 2012:
@ Daryo Your explanation makes perfect sense. Discovered in the early 1960s, more or less by accident, the process was developped in the 1990s. Yes, I guess that makes it recent.
Daryo Jul 29, 2012:
educating a piece of metal does sound like a rather unlikely idea.
These pieces are made of a material that's got "memory", i.e. has two shapes: the current visible one, and some previous shape that's "memorised" inside the structure of the piece, and to which shape the piece will revert under some specific condition. (BTW nothing revolutionary there: many thermoplastics have “memory of previous shape” and when heated just enough start slowly reverting to it.)
As it's something relatively new, the inventor had also to invent a name for "teaching a piece of metal which shape to take" thus the expression "educating metal", more specifically a shape-memory alloy piece of metal.
polyglot45 Jul 28, 2012:
élaboration ? perhaps ?
Nikki Scott-Despaigne Jul 28, 2012:
Nothing for "éducation" but Original
Une intégration complète de la chaîne de production, depuis la fusion et la transformation de l’alliage à mémoire de forme jusqu’à l’éducation de pièces finies et leurs contrôles.'

Your version
A fully integrated production chain, from the fusion and transformation of the Shape-Memory Alloy to the monitoring and ......(l'education).... of the finished products.

My suggestions
- “fusion” for “fusion”
- No capitals for “shape-memory alloy”
- “education”???
- “contrôles” : I’d use something closer to “checking” or “inspection” of the finished elements/components/parts here, rather than “monitoring”. Monitoring suggest something ongoing, where there is a finality of a certain stage here.

As for "éducation", is there any possibility of a typo here?

Proposed translations

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French term (edited): l’éducation de pièce en alliage à mémoire de forme
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educating a piece made of shape memory alloy

'Une intégration complète de la chaîne de production, depuis la fusion et la transformation de l’alliage à mémoire de forme jusqu’à l’éducation de pièces finies et leurs contrôles.'
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'A fully integrated production chain, from melting and transformation of the shape-memory alloy up to educating the finished pieces and their control.

alloys are usually "melted"
Peer comment(s):

agree Nikki Scott-Despaigne : I agree with "educating". Also agree with the hyphen in "shape-memory". Nice reference. I've seen "fusion" used with alloys but "melt" is perhaps better. "Control" is wrong though; it has the meaning of "inspection" or "checking".
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks very much for your help! I handed the translation in and received feedback, but none was put on this bit- so I think it was all fine! If you're interested, here is what I put in the end: 'A fully integrated production chain, from the fusion and transformation of Shape-Memory Alloy to the education and monitoring of completed alloys.'"
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training

Maybe in quotes; "training"

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Note added at 20 heures (2012-07-29 13:09:28 GMT)
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extract from: http://universitateaeftimiemurgu.academia.edu/GilbertRainerG...
Example sentence:

Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) materials are metallic alloys that have the special property of being able to return toa pre-determined, or "trained," shape from a deformed state when the material is heated above its transformationtemperature. A number of alloy

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Reference comments

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Reference:

Educating a piece of metal - made of metallic shape memory alloy

Process for treating a work piece made from a metallic shape memory alloy offering two states of reversible shape memory
European Patent EP0382109
Kind Code:
B1
Abstract:
Abstract of EP0382109
The process for treating a piece (P) made of metal alloy with double-effect shape memory according to the invention comprises the operations O1 to O7 consisting - in shaping (O1) at the ambient temperature T1 the piece (P) in the shape constituting a first shape memory state, - in mechanically maintaining the piece in its first shape memory state (O2) and in heating the mechanically maintained piece to the temperature T3 to bring it into an austenitic crystallographic phase state (O3), - in abruptly lowering the mechanically maintained piece to a temperature T4 (O4) and in a stabilising thermal treatment (O5) while maintaining its austenitic state, and - in subjecting the piece to a process of education in order to shape it in the second shape memory state (O6, O7).

Description:
L'invention est relative à un procédé de conditionnement de pièces réalisées en alliage métallique susceptible de subir une transformation réversible de l'état de phase cristallographique de type austénitique à un état de phase cristallographique de type martensitique, et concerne notamment le conditionnement de pièces présentant des configurations complexes en vue de la mémorisation réversible par celles-ci de deux états de mémoire de forme.
On connaît déjà de la demande de brevet EP-A-161 952 un procédé de conditionnement d'une pièce en un alliage du type mentionné plus haut permettant de conférer à cette dernière un double effet de mémoire de forme réversible.
Le procédé peut être décomposé en deux séries d'opérations, à savoir la préparation de la pièce à éduquer et l'éducation de la pièce proprement dite.

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Par ailleurs, le procédé d'éducation comprend les opérations consistant successivement à déformer la pièce afin de l'amener dans la configuration constituant son second état de mémoire de forme en la soumettant, à température ambiante, à une contrainte mécanique, à soumettre cette pièce sous la contrainte mécanique à un abaissement de la température telle qu'elle est amenée dans un état de phase martensitique, à supprimer la contrainte mécanique, et à chauffer la pièce à une température telle qu'elle est à nouveau amenée dans un état de phase austénitique si bien qu'elle reprend la configuration constituant son premier état de mémoire de forme. Ce cycle peut être répété en une pluralité de fois pour parfaire l'éducation.



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