These large heads put a great strain on the shell, requiring special reinforcement rods to be designed.

He leaned on a piece of reinforcement rod that he was using as a walking stick.

In places, exposed concrete had crumbled and rusting reinforcement rods protruded.

As steel reinforcement rods in the slab rusted, the slab could no longer support its own weight, he said.

Some steel reinforcement rods, like those used in cement buildings, were bound with belts and set up on crates alongside the bed.

They were newly made, but judging by the exposed reinforcement rods jutting out of the crumbling concrete, the wall wasn't.

Now he had to crouch to avoid dangling cables and pipes and snapped iron reinforcement rods.

Twisted steel reinforcement rods four inches thick dangled like strands of spaghetti from the ruined roadway.

Instead, the steel reinforcement rods were wrapped in pinkish cloth, giving the impression that Adolf was wearing a pair of woman's house slippers.

Within a few minutes, he was stiff as a concrete- reinforcement rod and I was sitting up straight and bouncing up and down on him.

"He'd been impaled on some iron reinforcement rods sticking up out of the cement abutment on the west side of the bridge.

Inside, it's a spotless, state-of-the-art winery; outside, it's a raw concrete structure, its only decoration the rusted steel reinforcement rods jutting from the walls.

Officer Letizia was not struck by the bar, Captain Rocco said, describing it as a two-foot piece of steel reinforcement rod.

Where any other form of stress is raised, such as tensile or torsional stress, it has to be resisted by carefully placed reinforcement rods or fibres.

The Hulk sent a massive green fist crashing through the wall and ripped loose huge chunks of concrete and steel reinforcement rods as he withdrew his hand.

The company chosen, normally built factory smokestacks, which accounts for the final design for the new Point Arena Lighthouse; featuring steel reinforcement rods encased in concrete.

It lies in ruins with its transept open to the green-blue skies, one of its western towers unfinished, and the other tower a skeletal framework of tumbled stone and rusted reinforcement rods.

As Holden watched, vision wavering, the figure in the long coat started climbing, hands clawing at cracks in the freeway's vertical surface, boots scrabbling at crumbling projections of cement or ends of metal reinforcement rods.

As Home Depot moves from a 110-volt world where most houses are built of wood and nails to a 220-volt world where most houses are built of cement and metal reinforcement rods, it will have to adjust its inventories.

The way prefabricated steel reinforcement rods and an underlying beam in the garage floors were connected to six critical outer vertical columns, as part of the way the revised design was executed, resulted in a building that engineers now say was all but destined to collapse.

Scale Model of Center A listnessness settled over the courtroom as the tape played at length and Mr. Williams spoke of the direction in which reinforcement rods had been bent or the nature of the damage on cars parked in the garage.

Aspects of the Wolfgang Special EXP were inferior to its USA counterparts; the neck had no graphite reinforcement rods and was finished with a satin poly rather than a natural oil, and the majority of the hardware was much cheaper in quality.

"Then the solution may be applied in several ways," he said, "such as spraying it on the walls or troweling on the walls or set in a mold for a foundation while poured into deep vertical or horizontal cutaway channels are foam panels containing steel reinforcement rods or wood planks.

Amnesty International and other organisations report that cement, glass, steel, bitumen, wood, paint, doors, plastic pipes, metal pipes, metal reinforcement rods, aggregate, generators, high voltage cables and wooden telegraph poles are high priority reconstruction materials currently with no or highly limited entry into Gaza through official crossings.

Reinforcement Rods Rusted Mr. Smith, the buildings commissioner, said there was evidence that water and snow on the tar roof had been seeping past a four-inch-thick concrete slab and a thick blanket of insulation for a long time, and had created a depression in the inner concrete slab, which is six inches thick.

Some buildings were built without the reinforcing bars needed to make them safe.

Concrete had a high sand content and lacked the required reinforcing bars.

The reinforcing bars are tied together with wire, which is cut using nips.

The reinforcing bars are cut to length and bent to specific configurations.

First, the location of existing reinforcing bar is determined using magnetic techniques.

For example, he can sell reinforcing bars, used in construction, about 50 percent cheaper than the big steelmakers.

Finally, he snagged a couple of pieces of what looked like reinforcing bar.

It is used to make structural beams, plates, reinforcing bar and other products that require little cold working.

The metal rods perform the same function as reinforcing bars in ordinary construction.

But some of the columns were cracked, with their steel reinforcing bars visible inside the concrete.

If the concrete cracks, it provides a path for water to travel directly to the reinforcing bars.

"But we know today that it is not enough to tie rods around each bundle of reinforcing bars.

Below their feet it was at least six inches broad, the opposing lips only held together by the net of reinforcing bars.

Reinforcing bars are produced in certain sizes, with certain unit weights.

A likely area for substitution would be the steel reinforcing bars used in highway bridge decks.

The leading approach, one favored by the steel industry, is to coat the reinforcing bars with epoxy.

Here, a concrete trench is formed in the ground using wood forms, reinforcing bar and manual labor.

A network of horizontal and vertical reinforcing bars is then attached to these protrusions.

It was the first steel mill built in the state, and its primary product has always been reinforcing bar steel.

The steel reinforcing bars are another matter.

Then, they are progressively rolled to reduce the billets to the final size and shape of reinforcing bar.

The ironworker's work pliers is the main tool of a reinforcing bar ironworker.

The hoops are designed to prevent the vertical steel reinforcing bars from buckling outward.

Throughout the building, reinforcing bars from one section had long, tightly connected overlaps with those from the next.

Reinforcing bars are normally round in cross-section and vary in diameter.

I suggested we check out an open mike later the same night at Rebar.

It is a wall constructed with the help of rebar and concrete.

The women cut the rebar to length using an electric chop saw.

Too much sand in the concrete, not enough steel rebar.

The tendons in the back of my neck felt like rebar.

Rebar can be set into the foundation to add structural integrity.

The rebar were in the solution for 28 days at a pH of 13.

Rebar is typically manufactured in grades 40, 60, and 75.

Rebar, like almost all metal products, can be sold as scrap.

There were chunks of broken concrete and rebar at the bottom.

Phil nearly kills James, but is stabbed dead by a rebar in the process.

Several inches of concrete are sprayed over the rebar frame.

Instead of using rebar, it's laced through with wire mesh.

Maybe I made the rebar cages, but it was you who made the plan work.

He popped his eyes a bit when I told him about our escape in the rebar cages.

Rebar has both a main bar and a standing room only bar.

This is the desired micro structure for quality construction rebar.

Eventually this may lead to corrosion of the rebar and damage to the construction.

That may be because the rebar mats were harder to handle, or just did not fit.

A crane loomed overhead and rebar stuck out of the project.

The rebar size and spacing is generally specified by the engineer of record.

He lifted a twisted piece of metal that looked like rusted rebar.

The foundation consisted of 4 steel tubes connected by rebar.

For example, the rebar will have to be cut with a cutting torch, so it can fit around a drain.

At five years old, playing around a swimming pool that was still under construction, she fell onto a piece of rebar.

Turkish villages can be ugly, with unfinished buildings bristling with rough, spiky rooflines of rusty concrete reinforcement bar.

Galvanized steel is also extensively used in buildings (concrete reinforcement bars, roofing and siding) and other structures such as transmission towers for electricity.

It includes rusting of concrete reinforcement bar and any number of concrete failures, notably carbonatation or the Alkali - silica reaction.

Companies that once boasted of making every steel product from "nails to rails" have conceded low-value items like concrete reinforcement bars to foreign steelmakers and the mini-mills operated by smaller American companies like the Nucor Corporation and the Chaparral Steel Corporation, which produce steel from scrap, rather than ore.