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 rebar is replaced with carbon fiber.

According to a July 2022 bulletin by the Concrete Reinforcement Steel Institute ... grade since they meet both A706 and A615. Since A706 rebar inherently meets the requirements of A615, all ...

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 ...

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 ...

While steel reinforcement solves one of concrete’s greatest limitations, it creates an entirely new problem: Corrosion of ...

Nickel miner Global Ferronickel Corp. (GFNI) is shelving its planned $50-million rebar steel manufacturing project in Bataan province amid weak industry ...

Listed mining firm Global Ferronickel Holdings Inc. has shelved its $50 million (approximately P2.9 billion) steel plant in ...