In what’s become almost an annual rite of passage, concrete contractors ... form and as the principal reinforcement for the slab. Historically, welded wire mesh fabric has been used as a ...

Most slabs-on-ground are unreinforced or nominally reinforced for crack-width control. When positioned in the upper or top portion of the slab thickness, steel reinforcement limits the widths of ...

Q: Tim, my builder is telling me to forget about using reinforcing ... use steel in concrete slabs! You can use either 1/2 inch diameter steel rods in concrete or rolls of steel mesh that look ...

Insteel Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets steel wire ... mesh, an engineered made-to-order product that is used as the primary reinforcement for concrete ...

The carbon fiber is woven into a mesh, or as a composite material that mimics existing rebar structures. These two types of reinforcement can be combined in a composite to produce a concrete ...