Building
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Concrete.....................
Illustrated
Architecture
Dictionary
Rebar
A
steel reinforcing rod with ridges in concrete
Short for "reinforcing
bar"
Reason
for use: Concrete
is a material that is very strong in compression (flattened by
pressure), but relatively weak in tension (strtethed tight).
To compensate for this imbalance in concrete's behavior, rebar is
cast into it to carry the tensile loads.
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