What material is the abutment made of? 支台采用何种材料制成的?
Can the Stealth Shouldered Abutment be modified? 隐肩式支台可否加上修整?
Where is the ideal placement of the shoulder on the Stealth Shouldered Abutment? 在隐肩支台之肩部置在何处为理想?
abutment
[ noun ]
point of contact between two objects or parts
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a masonry support that touches and directly receives thrust or pressure of an arch or bridge
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Abutment \A*but"ment\ ([.a]*b[u^]t"ment), n. 1. State of abutting.
2. That on or against which a body abuts or presses; as (a) (Arch.) The solid part of a pier or wall, etc., which receives the thrust or lateral pressure of an arch, vault, or strut. --Gwilt. (b) (Mech.) A fixed point or surface from which resistance or reaction is obtained, as the cylinder head of a steam engine, the fulcrum of a lever, etc. (c) In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.
The recent Supreme Court case stemmed from a 1985 crash in which two passengers were badly injured when the car they were in slammed into a bridge abutment in Tucson.