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A system of steel bars strands or wires for absorbing tensile shearing and sometimes the compressive stresses in a concrete |
Reinforcement |
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Usually specified by a number equivalent to its diameter |
Reinforcing bar/rebar |
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Reinforcing bar hot rolled with surface deformations to develop a greater bond with concrete |
Deformed bar |
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Rc design to absorb tensile stress |
Tension reinforcement |
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Rc design to absoarb compressive stresses |
Compression reinforcement |
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The amount of concrete required to protect steel reinforcement from fire and corrosion measured from the outer surface of the c.section |
Cover |
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Constructed of cement sand mortar ovee a wire mesh that has been pre shaped over a mold |
Ferrocement |
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Gfrc meaning?? |
Glass-fiber-reinforced concrete |
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Welded wire fabric |
Frid of longitudinal and transverse steel wires or bars welded together |
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Mesh of cold drawn steel wires mechanically twisted together to form hexagonally shaped |
Woven wire fabric |
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A concrete section in which the tension reinforcement theoretically reaches its specified yield strength as the concrete im compression reaches its assumed ultimates strain |
Balanced section |
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A concrete section in which the concrete in compression reaches its assumed ultimate strain before the tension reinforcement reaches its specified yield strength. Dangerous condition since failure to section could occur instaneously without warning |
Overreinforced section |
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Any various means such as embedment lenght or hooked bars |
Anchorage |
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Standard hook |
90 degree 135 180 |
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Longitudinal bar bent up or down at points of moment reversal in a reinforced concrete beam |
Truss bar |
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Any longitidinal bars serving as tension rc in the sectionof a concrete beam or slab subject to a negative moment |
Top bar |
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Rc consisting of bent bars or stirruos placed in a concrete beam to resist diagonal tension |
Web reinforcement |
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Monolithic reinforcement concrete construction in which a portion of the slab on each side of a beam acts as a flange in resisting compressive stresses |
T beam |
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Longitudinal reinforcement placed in a concrete to absorb compressive stresses. Resist bemding stresses and reduce the effect of creep and shrinkage in the column |
Vertical reinforcement |
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A butt splice made by connecting the butted ends of 2 rc bars with mechanical fastener such a sleeve clamp |
Compression splice |
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Tied column |
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Spiral column |
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A structural steel section thoroughly encased om cincrete reinforced with both vertical and spiral reinforcemnt |
Composite column |
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Rigid planar structure of concrete designed to act together withbprincipal and secondary reinforcement in resisting applied forces |
Reinforced concrete slab |
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Rc designed to absorb the stresses from applied loads and moment |
Principal reinforcement/main bar |
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Rc placed perpendicular to the main bars in a one way slab to absoarb the stresses |
Shrinkage rc./temperature bar |
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A thin layer of high quality concrete placed over a concrete base to form a floor surface |
Topping |
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A concrete slab of uniform thickness reinforced in one direction and cast integrally with parallel supporting beams. Suitable for short span |
One way slab |
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One way slab supported by secondary beams |
Beam and girder slab |
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A rc slab cast integrally withba series of closely spaced joists which inturn are supported by parallel set of beams. |
Ribbed slab/joist slab |
Designed as a seriea of parallel T beams and economical for medium to spans with light to medium live loads |
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A concrete slab of uniform thickness reinforced in two directions and cast integrally with supporting edge beams or bearing walls on four sides |
Two way slab |
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Rc slab extending as a structural unit over three or more supports in a given direction. |
Continuous slab |
Subject to lower bending moment than a series of discrete simply supported slab |
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Reusable metal or fiberglass mold used in forming a ribbed slab |
Pan |
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The potentially high shearing stress developed by the reactive force of a column on rc slab |
Punching shear |
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A concrete slab of uniform thickness reinforced in 2or more directions and support directly by columns without beams and girders |
Flat plate |
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The overstressed region of a rc slab at a column support |
Shear head |
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A flat plate thickened at its column supports to increase its shear strenght and moment resisting capacity. |
Flat slab |
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Drop panel |
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Column capital |
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A portion of rc slab bounded on all sides by the centerlines of column beams and walls |
Panel |
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Panel strip Middle strip Column strip |
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A panel of flat slab having at least one edge that does not adjoin another panel |
exterior panel |
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Any panel of flat slab adjoining other panels along four edges |
Interior panel |
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A two way concrete slab reinforced by ribs in two directions able to carry heacier loads and longer span distances than the flat slaba |
Waffle slab |
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A squre metal or fiber glass pan used in forming the ribs of a waffle slab |
Dome |
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A concrete member or product that is cast and cured in a place other than where itis to be installed in a structure |
Precast concrete |
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A precast prestressed concrete slab having a broad T shaped cross section |
Single tee |
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A precast prestressed ledger beam having a cross section resembling an interval capital letter L |
Inverted tee |
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Concrete reinforced by pretensioning or post tensioning high strenght steel tendons within their elastic limit to activel resist a service load |
Prestressed concrete |
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To introduce internal stresses to a concrete member in order to counteract the stresses that will result from an applied load |
Prestress |
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To prestress a concrete member by tensioning the reinforcing tendons before the concrete is cast |
Pretension |
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High strength steel strand or bar for prestressing concrete |
Tendon |
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A long horizontal slab on which a number of pretensioned concrete members maybe prestressed formed and cast simutaneously |
Casting bed |
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A hydraulic device for stretching and stressing tendons in the prestressing of a concrete member |
Jack |
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The tensile force in the reinforcement tendons transferred to a concrete member at the time of stressing |
Initial prestress |
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To prestress a concrete member by tensioning the reinforcing tendons aftee the concrete has set |
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