The American Concrete Institute has released the new ACI Reinforced Concrete Design Handbook as a three-volume handbook providing guidance to professionals engaged in the design of reinforced concrete ...

According to the American Concrete Institute CT-18, fiber-reinforced concrete is a concrete mixture that is reinforced with dispersed, randomly orientated fibers. These fibers can be used in lieu of ...

Students learn about reinforced concrete through mixing, bending rebar, pouring and finally testing concrete beams of two different sizes in bending using CIEST’s 110-kip actuator ...

The homesteaders at Mason Dixon Acres install radiant heat tubing across reinforced concrete slabs for efficient in-floor heating systems. 'He's in my car?': Dad whose baby was found 'hot to the touch ...

Let's think of a paper sheet. If we tried to stiffen it from its primary state, it couldn't support its own weight. However, if we bend it, the sheet achieves a new structural quality. The shells act ...

Researchers at the Technical University of Dresden have been working with German architecture firm Henn to create the first concrete building to be reinforced with carbon fibres instead of steel.