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, ...

Standing before a crowd of curious onlookers at a corner of the show floor at the World of Concrete trade show in Las Vegas, Advanced Construction Robotics president and cofounder Jeremy Searock made ...

Researchers in Northern Ireland report promising results from a demonstration project that used rods made with basalt fibers to reinforce a 22-meter-long concrete-deck section of a $1.5-million ...

Reinforcing steel and ribbed reinforcement bars (rebars) are essential to civil engineering, forming a category of key structural materials which, in the case of concrete-reinforcing steel, are ...

According to a May 2022 market report, the global fiber-reinforced polymer rebar market size reached $171.3 million in 2020. North America accounts for the largest share and this growth is expected to ...

The Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) rebar industry is about thirty years old. The industry started by molding aramid and carbon fibers with various thermoset resins, and then expanded to glass fibers ...