| Rebar = Reinforcement Steel Bar | | | | and longitudinal stresses as a result of large |
| Detail:to describe distinctly and minutelyto allocate | | | | temperature changes. Although rebar has ribs that |
| a particular taskto provide detail drawings of each | | | | fasten it mechanically to the concrete, under high |
| element of design | | | | stresses it may pull out of the concrete, an event |
| A rebar or reinforcing bar, is a common steel bar | | | | that often leads to a large-scale collapse of |
| used generally in reinforced concrete (RCC) | | | | structures. To avoid such a failure, rebar is either |
| structures and masonry establishments. It is | | | | bent & hooked at the ends to fasten it |
| typically crafted from carbon steel and is given | | | | around the concrete or deeply entrenched into |
| ridges for better mechanical fixing into the | | | | adjacent structural members. |
| concrete. It can also be depicted as reinforcing | | | | Cutting & bending of steel rebar sticks to |
| steel or rebar reinforcement. In Australia it is | | | | fixing them into the concrete block or member is |
| conventionally called as "reo". | | | | generally performed by expert reinforcement |
| In general, any material with adequate tensile | | | | fabricators or rebar detailers. Rebar detailing is a |
| strength could feasibly be used to reinforce | | | | crucial job and requires precision to deliver greater |
| concrete. But since the thermal expansion | | | | stability to the structure. The expert rebar |
| coefficient of steel is almost same as that of | | | | detailers uses latest software technologies like |
| concrete, a concrete member reinforced with | | | | Tekla, Revit and AutoCAD to provide exact rebar |
| steel will undergo minimal stress as a result of | | | | shop drawings as per the specifications and needs |
| differential expansions of the two interconnected | | | | of structure or building. The accuracy of bending |
| materials produced by temperature changes. | | | | operations is crucial to ensure that they fit |
| If steel has an expansion coefficient totally | | | | correctly at the construction site and at the same |
| different to that of modern concrete, it would | | | | time keep necessary lap lengths & |
| create problems through additional perpendicular | | | | anchorage length. |