While adding steel, micro-synthetic, or macro-synthetic (a more recent development) fibers to concrete have been around for decades, the benefits of utilizing fiber to reinforce concrete span from ...

Concrete is incredibly strong in compression - but very weak in tension. That’s why engineers add reinforcement. In this video, I explain why reinforcement is needed, how rebar helps, and how ...

Basanite Inc. (Pompano Beach, Fla., U.S.), a manufacturer of environmentally friendly, high-performance composite construction materials made from basalt fiber and basalt fiber-reinforced polymer, ...

Contraction joints (sometimes called control joints) are used in unreinforced and lightly reinforced slabs-on-ground to minimize random cracking. By creating straight-line weakened-planes in concrete, ...

Researchers are trying to make the process more efficient and definitive by using artificial intelligence, combined with a classic mathematical method for quantifying web-like networks, to determine ...