Latest Reinforced concrete Stories
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Central Concrete, a U.S. Concrete, Inc. (NASDAQ-USCR) company, today announced that it supplied its concrete mix designs for three new San Francisco Bay Area projects - the recently opened Exploratorium in San Francisco, Devil's Slide Tunnel and Bridges, and Stanford's Bing Concert Hall. San Francisco Exploratorium - Grand Opening April 17, 2013San Francisco's New Exploratorium, with its 330,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor...
DUBAI, UAE, July 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- - American University of Sharjah study rates BASF's Rheocrete 222+ top steel corrosion inhibitor The American University of Sharjah (AUS), a nationally and internationally accredited educational institution in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has conducted a trial to test the effectiveness of corrosion inhibitors used in steel-reinforced concrete in construction. Rheocrete 222+, a combined waterproofer and organic corrosion...
Engineer Pello Larrinaga Alonso has studied the positive effects of an innovative inorganic-based composite called Textile Reinforced Mortar (TRM). The results have been gathered in a Doctoral Thesis developed in Tecnalia and presented publically in the Faculty of Engineering of Bilbao, UPV/EHU. Reinforced concrete is a basic material in the modern Western society. Blocks of flats, pavements, flyovers, underpasses, and even benches… are some of the elements made of reinforced concrete....
ABU DHABI, UAE, November 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Gulf Precast Concrete Company LLC, the largest precast manufacturer in the United Arab Emirates, announced the achievement of a key construction milestone ahead of programme, with the completion of the Villas' Precast Works of Village 2 (1059 villas) at Al Falah Community Development. In parallel, the precast works in Village 3 (1010 villas) is well under progress with 60% completed. (Photo:...
Ten years after 9/11, researchers at Purdue University are continuing work that could lead to safer steel structures such as buildings and bridges and also an emerging type of nuclear power plant design. "I want people to understand that in the last 10 years we've not been quiet," said Amit Varma, a Purdue associate professor of civil engineering. "We've been working to make structures better and safer." The researchers are using a custom heating system and a specialized...
SlabTekâ„¢ has added Austin, Texas as the latest city using SlabTek's suspended reinforced concrete slab. Unlike traditional suspended reinforced concrete slabs, SlabTekâ„¢ utilizes a totally exclusive method of pouring a flat slab on top of the ground and then raising the slab to a desired height above the ground, thus isolating the foundation from future soil movement. Austin, TX (PRWEB) June 22, 2011 SlabTekâ„¢ added Austin, Texas as the latest city using SlabTek's...
Today there is an extensive heritage of reinforced concrete buildings in the Basque Country, which hardly existed a century ago. Ms Maialen Sagarna, lecturer in Architecture at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), studied the evolution and development of the "most revolutionary material of the 20th century" in Gipuzkoa. She focused on the features of buildings constructed with reinforced concrete decade by decade, and explained how and why this material was used at any given time....
Most buildings are not constructed to withstand an unexpected explosion or impact. Now, a researcher at the University of Missouri is working with the U.S. Army to test a method of retrofitting buildings to protect them in the case of a terrorist attack.Sarah Orton, assistant professor of civil engineering in the MU College of Engineering, has focused on using carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP), a fabric that can carry 143,000 pounds of force per square inch and has various applications...
GilaTools.com, online provider of top quality diamond tools, showcases its top notch concrete saw blades selection. Customers can select from a variety of concrete saw blades such as green concrete blades, concrete turbo blades, and professional concrete blades. City of Industry, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) February 16, 2011 GilaTools.com, online supplier of factory direct and professional quality diamond tools, showcases its top notch concrete saw blades selection. GilaTools.com provides superior...
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Feb. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- "Make Sure it's True Fibermesh" is the message that leads the Propex launch of its new brand initiative for Fibermesh concrete reinforcement fibers. The new branding was unveiled at the World of Concrete that took place January 18-23, in Las Vegas, Nev. As the experts in fibers for concrete reinforcement, Propex revolutionized the concrete industry a quarter century ago with the introduction of Fibermesh. Proven far superior to traditional...
