Progress made on I-471 bridge reopening as crews battle winter weather
CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Significant progress has been made on the I-471 bridge that connects Cincinnati to Kentucky. Crews are ...
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The Benefits of Protecting Rebar With Migrating Corrosion Inhibitors
Migrating corrosion inhibitor technology was developed to protect the embedded steel rebar/concrete structure. Organic inhibitors use compounds that work by forming a monomolecular film between ...
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How To Reinforce Concrete Slab on Ground to Control Cracking
When positioned in the upper or top portion of the slab thickness, steel reinforcement limits the widths of random cracks that may occur because of concrete shrinkage and temperature restraints ...
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Tribunal Finds Injury in Rebar from Bulgaria, Thailand, UAE
The Canadian International Trade Tribunal today found that the dumping of concrete reinforcing bar, originating in or exported from the Republic of ...
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Self-Healing Concrete: What Ancient Roman Concrete Can Teach Us
Perhaps the most astounding thing is that even today our concrete isn’t nearly as durable, despite modern inventions such as reinforcing with rebar. Reverse-engineering ancient Roman concrete ...
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A Good, Hard Look At Pre-Stressed Concrete
Around the late 1800s, someone thought to fortify spans of concrete with steel reinforcing bars, better known as rebar. Steel can stretch, adding steel bars gives the concrete some tensile ...