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 ...

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 ...

Warehouses are not high rises, and vertical pumping of concrete rarely is a problem—but they do pose their own challenges. Defined and stringent Ff/Fl numbers and burnish requirements, high daily ...

A corrosion-free composite rebar-reinforced floor slab, based on a lab-tested glass fiber-reinforced polymer rebar-specific punching shear equation, which performs like a steel-reinforced slab at a ...