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 ...

The reinforcement mesh is cast into concrete, and when the textile-reinforced concrete is loaded, the filaments slip both against the concrete and against each other inside the yarn. A textile ...

Many farmers do their own concrete work ... Unlike re-rod or wire mesh added during a pour, fiber-strand reinforcing is uniform throughout the slab. “For thermal movement and expansion control ...