When drilling or coring into reinforced concrete, it’s critical to know what lies beneath the surface. Accidentally hitting a reinforcement bar (rebar) or embedded conduit can cause costly damage, ...

The practice of using concrete rubble and rebar to protect riverbanks from erosion poses a safety hazard for rafters, a former government biologist says. Calgary firefighters pull 80 pieces of rebar ...

While many of us might think that concrete structures such as bridges simply stand unaided for decades at a time, the fact is that they require maintenance as often as once every five years. An ...

Nearly 40% of failure of concrete structures occurs due to corrosion of embedded steel reinforcement. For this reason, corrosion control of steel reinforcement is essential to prevent damage and ...

Concrete makes up a huge part of the built world, but steel rebar–reinforced concrete is difficult and dangerous for humans to make. Toggle thinks robots can make it faster and safer. (Courtesy Toggle ...

In this video, learn how to build a round concrete "river" coffee table using conventional Quikrete concrete, rebar, and a ...

Since the first generation of Conquest 100 GPR was unveiled in 2001, Conquest100 has been helping contractors locate embedded objects in concrete. Since the first generation of Conquest 100 GPR was ...

As you know, many structural elements like wire rope (the usual tower guy cable) only have strength in tension. Concrete has an opposite characteristic. It has its greatest strength in compression.