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 ...

Why not embed an iron mesh in the concrete ... floor slabs in 1879 to a complete building system in 1892. Hennébique's patented method employed hooked connections on the reinforcing bars.

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 ...