Steel reinforcing bars and welded wire reinforcement will not prevent cracking. Reinforcement is basically dormant until the concrete cracks. After cracking, it becomes active and controls crack ...

Concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world. Made from cement, water, sand and gravel, this ...

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 ...

As part of addressing this problem, a team at TU Dresden in Germany have completed what is believed to be the world’s first building made with carbon-reinforced concrete, in which the steel ...

The 42-month project, which received nearly $1 million in funding, is a joint effort between the Texas Transportation ...

which would need to be in place earlier than would typically be the case on steel-reinforced concrete construction. Advanced Construction Robotics TyBOT is a gantry-mounted robot that has operated ...