Q: Tim, my builder is telling me to forget about using reinforcing steel or mesh in my concrete driveway and patio. He says he’ll just add an inch of thickness and that’s good enough. What’s your ...

Saint-Gobain Technical Fabrics recently introduced FibaCrete Concrete Reinforcement Mesh, an alkali-resistant fiberglass material designed specially to fortify concrete applications. It is ideal as a ...

In what’s become almost an annual rite of passage, concrete contractors at various industry conferences show me “war wounds” that have resulted from wire mesh and rebar (reinforcement bars). They wear ...

Since 2015, Gramazio Kohler Research has been in the process of developing "Mesh Mould Metal," a project that studies the unification of concrete reinforcement and formwork into a single, robotically ...

Q: My builder is telling me to forget about using reinforcing steel or mesh in my concrete driveway and patio. He says he'll just add an inch of thickness and that's good enough. Would you go to the ...

The electrons produced during this process are conducted through the metal whilst the ions formed are transported via the pore water which acts as the electrolyte. Concrete as an Environment The ...

UNSW Sydney provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. By itself, concrete is a very durable construction material. The magnificent Pantheon in Rome, the world’s largest unreinforced ...

Our 2-year-old house on a slab in Owasso has developed cracks in the attached-garage floor. Three contractors looked at it, including the one who poured it, and they tell me the slab was poured all at ...