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slip form Engin. Also slip-form, slipform. [f. slip v.1] A mould open at both ends in which a structure of uniform cross-section is cast by filling it with concrete and continually moving and refilling it as the concrete sets. Freq. attrib. with reference to this technique of construction, esp. as slipform (concrete) paver, a machine which continually forms the concrete surface of a road or the like by this technique.
1958Construction Methods & Equipment Aug. 72/2 Slip-form placing of concrete reduced material and manpower requirements to a fraction of what they might have been with timber forms and scaffolding. Ibid. 73/2 The contractor supported slip forms with a number of steel yokes. 1963Contractors & Engineers Jan. 40/4 Slip-form pavers are shorter this year... The early slip-form machines, with 40 to 60 feet of sliding form, amazed many people. 1964[see form n. 18 b]. 1974Sci. Amer. Dec. 145/1 The road itself, that great ribbon of concrete, is being placed by the slip-form paver, which spreads, smooths, levels, cuts the edges squarely and even finishes the surface. 1975Offshore Sept. 147/1 The steel slipform is guided on rails cast into the interior surface of the cylinder wall. Hence ˈslipform v. trans., to cast by this technique; ˈslipformed ppl. a. ˈslipforming vbl. n.
1968J. J. Waddell Concrete Construction Handbk. xxxiv. 1 The ultimate approach in incorporating a slipform into building construction is to slipform all vertical concrete. Ibid., Slipforming is a faster method of construction than conventional forming. Ibid. 2 Slipformed-concrete. 1975Offshore Sept. 147/1 Tests are complete on the slip-forming of inclined legs for a deepwater concrete platform. 1981Times 12 Mar. 3/6 The contractors are slip forming 2,000 metres of double track. This track-laying method was first used in 1967. |