WO1 Azlan had to watch the concrete slabs closely – it was his job ... so we started off small by cutting the reinforcement bars (inside the concrete),” he said. WO1 Co Richard Bryan Ang ...

The world record belongs to the Gorham family from Levack, Ont., who, in 2020, made a 530-pound Nanaimo bar slab, eight feet long, 44 inches wide and three inches thick. But VIU students want to ...

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For the slabs without holes, the negative reinforcement (top) is composed of an orthogonal mesh of 19 bars of 12.5 mm in diameter (CA-50) in each direction. The positive reinforcement (bottom) is ...

Rebar samples are pulled apart to find how fast the bar stretches before breaking as well as its breaking strength. Other tests continue to determine condition of cement paste and aggregate cons ...

Some foundations have post-tension cables or are reinforced with steel rods called rebar so that the slab can bear the weight of the house. The house is then constructed on top of this concrete ...