concrete saving rebar Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 07 Nov 2014 04:01:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 FRP Rebar Helps Save Mountains from Turning into Molehills https://www.greenoptimistic.com/frp-rebar-helps-save-mountains-turning-molehills-20141106/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/frp-rebar-helps-save-mountains-turning-molehills-20141106/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2014 04:01:20 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=50082 Reinforcing bars or rebars are necessary to keep our structures up.  Engineers usually use steel rebars because of cost, but some have explored the use of fiber rebars.  If you’ve seen some exposed rebars at seaside structures, you will understand why.  Steel rebars rust, hence compromising the home, or even wharf that they are trying […]

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