
Casting Reinforced Concrete — Marrying Steel and Stone into the Modern Structure
Concrete is wonderful stuff in compression — squeeze it and it holds — but pull on it and it cracks like a biscuit. Steel is the opposite: superb in tension, useless if you try to build a wall of it. In the late 1800s builders like Joseph Monier and François Hennebique realised that embedding steel inside concrete combines the best of both, and reinforced concrete became the material that built the modern world.
The idea works because of three lucky properties. Concrete and steel expand and contract at almost exactly the same rate, so temperature changes do not tear them apart. Wet concrete is strongly alkaline, which coats the steel in a protective film that stops it rusting. And the two grip each other firmly, so a load shared between them is truly shared. Put steel where the structure is stretched and concrete where it is squeezed, and you get a member strong in every direction.
From this came bridges, dams, tunnels, and the skeletons of skyscrapers — shapes impossible in stone or iron alone. The skill is in knowing where the steel must go and in surrounding it completely with sound, well-cured concrete.
ညွှန်ကြားချက်များ
Understand the partnership
Understand the partnership
Know where the steel goes
Know where the steel goes
Build the formwork
Build the formwork
Materials for this step:
Timber Plank10 ခုTools needed:
HammerCut and bend the rebar
Cut and bend the rebar
Materials for this step:
Steel Rebar15 မီတာTools needed:
Bar BenderPlace and tie the cage
Place and tie the cage
Materials for this step:
Tie Wire1 လိပ်Mix the concrete
Mix the concrete
Materials for this step:
Portland Cement50 ကီလို
Sand100 ကီလို
Gravel200 ကီလိုTools needed:
Concrete MixerPour around the steel
Pour around the steel
Materials for this step:
Water30 လီတာCompact out the air
Compact out the air
Tools needed:
Tamping RodCure it slowly
Cure it slowly
Strip the formwork
Strip the formwork
Tools needed:
Pry BarUnderstand why it lasts
Understand why it lasts
See what it built
See what it built
ပစ္စည်းများ
7- 10 ခုPlaceholder
- Placeholder
- 50 ကီလိုPlaceholder
Connected Blueprint Materials
ဆက်စပ် အစီအစဉ်များ
ဤအစီအစဉ်များသည် အသိပညာမျှဝေသည် — နည်းပညာ၊ ပစ္စည်း သို့မဟုတ် မူများ
CC0 အများပိုင်
ဤအစီအစဉ်ကို CC0 အောက်တွင် ထုတ်ဝေထားသည်။ ခွင့်ပြုချက်မလိုဘဲ ကူးယူ၊ ပြင်ဆင်၊ ဖြန့်ဝေ နှင့် အသုံးပြုနိုင်သည်။
အစီအစဉ်မှတစ်ဆင့် ကုန်ပစ္စည်းများဝယ်ယူ၍ ဖန်တီးသူကို ပံ့ပိုးပါ ဖန်တီးသူ ကော်မရှင် ရောင်းချသူက သတ်မှတ်သည်၊ သို့မဟုတ် ဤအစီအစဉ်၏ ဗားရှင်းအသစ်ဖန်တီး၍ ဝင်ငွေခွဲဝေရန် သင့်အစီအစဉ်တွင် ချိတ်ဆက်မှုအဖြစ် ထည့်သွင်းပါ။