The Corporation Architects and Engineers will be spinning in their graves to learn that the reinforced walls they specified on public buildings and schools to protect from bomb or blast damage "were of little use"The coils of the stuff we see on building sites have little-to-no tensile strength and so are of little use in 'strengthening' masonry walls
For extra vertical and horizontal force resistance.What scenario would mean that bed reinforcememt should be used?
I saw it being installed the other day to what looked like a normal robust wall and couldn't understand why
The Corporation Architects and Engineers will be spinning in their graves to learn that the reinforced walls they specified on public buildings and schools to protect from bomb or blast damage "were of little use"
And JCB drivers who try to demolish any such walls in bits or sections may also have a different view.
And I don't think imperial mesh was much different to the metric coils we see today.
Apologies accepted.Apologies; the OP didn't state that the wall he saw being built was designed to be bomb- or blast proof, nor that it was being built with demolition in mind.
As the mesh has a degree of flexibility in both length and width, it can't be used as effective tensile reinforcement.
For extra vertical and horizontal force resistance.
Apologies accepted.
Presumably the same flexibility principle of steel applies with concrete reinforcement? And that's pointless too?
It's still flexible in the context of your example for mesh.10 or 12mm steel rebar is rather less flexible than lengths of streched/cut sheet metal 0.1mm or so thick.
I've been involved in structural design since the late 1880s, but will bow to your superior knowledge.It's still flexible in the context of your example for mesh.
I'd go as far to say that in a push, you could even use mesh to climb up out of deep holes.
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