Providing concrete floors with early-age cracking resistance, fiber reinforcement can be used to replace conventional steel for temperature/shrinkage crack control and limited structural applications.

According to a July 2022 bulletin by the Concrete Reinforcement Steel Institute, concrete reinforcement bars marked with a W can be considered as dual grade. Changes to ASTM A615-20 specification ...

Cement production alone accounts for nearly eight percent of global carbon emissions, and excessive steel reinforcement only makes matters worse. Now, researchers at ETH Zurich have developed an ...