Rebar
Concrete is an ideal building material for many applications. Composite rebar material is used increasingly to further enhance concrete’s physical properties. Composites can protect concrete from the elements extending a structure’s useful life. Composites can also allow greater structural loads and eliminate electrical conductivity.
Properties and Benefits
- Strength grade is based on ultimate tensile strength of the bar
- Lowest grade is 60 ksi
- Strength is provided on 10 ksi increments
- Modulus grade corresponds to minimum modulus of the selected bar
- Bar Sizes
- Impervious to chloride ion and chemical attack
- Tensile strength is greater that steel
- ¼ the weight of steel
- Transparent to magnetic fields and radar frequencies
- Thermally non-conductive
- Electrically non-conductive
- Non-corrosive
- Increase service life
Applications and Products
Concrete Exposed to De-Icing Chlorides
- Bridge Decks & Railings
- Median Barriers
- Approach Slabs
- Salt Storage Facilities
- Continuously Reinforced Concrete
- Paving
- Parking Structures
- Precast Elements including Manhole
- Covers, Culverts, Rail Grade
Crossings, Full-Depth Bridge Deck Panels
- Concrete Exposed to Marine Chlorides
- Sea Walls, Wharfs, Quays & Dry Docks
- Coastal Construction exposed to Salt
- Fog
- Desalinization intakes
- Port Aprons
Concrete Exposed to High Voltages & Electromagnetic Fields
- Light & Heavy Rail – 3rd Rail Isolation
- Hospital MRI Areas
- High Voltage Substations
- Cable Ducts & Banks
- Aluminum Smelters & Steel Mills
- Radio Frequency Sensitive Areas
- Airport radio & compass calibration pads
- High Speed Highway Tolling Zones
Tunneling & Mining
- Deep Foundation Tunnel Boring Machine “Soft-eye” Openings For Launch & Reception
- Sequential Excavation or NATM Tunneling
- Temporary reinforcement
- Rock Bolts
Masonry Strengthening
- Strengthening for “Event Loading” of Clay & Concrete Masonry
- Seismic, wind or blast strengthening of unreinforced masonry (increase flexural and shear strength)
Building and & Historic Preservation
- Slabs
- Historic Preservation – Restoration and Pinning of Stone Elements
- Architectural Concrete Elements
Concrete Susceptible to Corrosion
- Waste Water Treatment Facilities
- Swimming Pools
