axle load

English

Noun

axle load (plural axle loads)

1. (transport, rail transport) the total weight, including load carried, transferred by one axle and its wheels to a road or railway surface. This is especially important in relation to what weight road and railway structures can carry, bridges in particular.

Related terms

• axle loading

Translations

total weight transferred by one axle

• Danish: aksellast c
• Finnish: akselipaino
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: aksellast m or f, akseltrykk n

  Nynorsk: aksellast f or m

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• Swedish: axeltryck (sv) n