"Rebar" is a word that stands for "reinforcing bar." It refers to a steel bar or rod that is used in construction to provide strength and stability to structures like buildings, bridges, and roads.
Rebar is typically embedded or placed inside concrete to make it stronger and prevent it from cracking or breaking.
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I only mention that because it is essential not to sugarcoat an image of a cute little old lady artist, she'd have bent you like that piece
of rebar for suggesting such a thing.
First exhibited as part of his 2012 acclaimed survey show at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC., Straight is formed from multiple tons of
steel rebar recovered from the collapsed schools in which more than five thousand children perished during the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan, China.
Rey Akdogan does it with metal tiling as incomplete as that of Carl Andre, Olof Inger with trash bags converted into the painting of light and space, Gabriel Kuri with black slabs crushing beer or soda cans like a Richard Serra that collapsed during an opening, Charlotte Posenenske with heat ducts as building blocks, Cameron Rowland with shelving brackets as line drawing, and Jean - Luc Moulène
with rebar as an open cage.
Maybe you reduce that time a little, as you wouldn't need to set up
rebar in situ (it would happen at your casting plant) but that also might get offset by time it takes to place the slabs and «lock» them together.
Health and Safety Award Albert P.C. Chan from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University was awarded a Highly Commended for his «From heat tolerance time to optimal recovery time: A heat stress model for construction
rebar workers in Hong Kong» Paper.
In the steel industry for example, specialized «mini mills» were able to produce
rebar for concrete structures more efficiently than the traditional integrated steel mills could.
The exhibition begins with a selection of her earliest works made of hospital furniture and stacks of white shirts impaled by
iron rebar.
In making Almost
Like Rebar No. 3, for instance, she came across a short video of an arguing couple that triggered her empathy.
In Sic Glyphs, materials found in urban settings,
from rebar on a building site to the corrugated metal of a shop shutter, became what Dean called a «typographical texty field or a fXXXing forest of physically abstracted versions of my writing.»
Several items were salvaged and not included in the weigh in, such
as rebar that will be repurposed in the construction of an educational display and several toys that were «rescued», including the dinosaur in the photos and several basketballs.
The wall itself has galvanized steel basins filled with plants that hang
on rebar at various heights, providing an industrial touch.
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This macroscale piece of
rebar graphene was formed into a screw shape.
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Rebar at Mary Boone Gallery; Francesco Vezzoli — People People - Fighting Sexism With New Tactics — America Loves Her Again — at Galleria Franco Noero; Kara Walker — Untitled at Sikkema Jenkins and CO; Tracey Emin — Thinking of You Again at Carolina Nitsch.
Blow torches, fasteners, rod - bending machines and rod busters are only some of the equipment used
by rebar workers.
The exhibition begins with an installation of to - scale objects from a postmodern home rendered solely in
twisted rebar and resin, a catalog for a Western utopia.
The aging bridge has exposed bridge footings, deteriorating concrete, and
corroded rebar.
Note how simple adjustments to the design — like including rings of reinforcing
rebar around batches of the long reinforcing steel rods — matter enormously.
First exhibited as part of his 2012 acclaimed survey show at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, Straight is formed from 150 tons of steel
rebar recovered from the collapsed schools in which more than five thousand children perished during the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan, China.
It turns out that removing the «high cost competitor» from the equation negatively impacted on the mini mills ability to make a profit
producing rebar.
When the coring area was chosen, precision drilling was necessary to avoid an active drain line (0.7 inches away),
vertical rebar, and the vertical section of the dousing tank nine feet below.
Jim Rebar of Palm Beach Gardens called the day, «The right thing to do.
He owned a ready mix business in Lexington for a few decades, and also worked for a few different places that
sold rebar, form release, and everything in between.
Pallets, mason jars, old shutters, a broken ladder,
construction rebar, a piece of trellis, twine, rope — these can all be made into a vertical garden structure.
Researchers investigated the bricks» strengths and found that even
without rebar, they are stronger than steel - reinforced concrete.
The absence of
rebar along with the fact that all of the formwork was kept to simple rectangles meant labor costs became low enough to be affordable.
[36] A team of 8 people worked strenuously for 40 days, first building a frame using
metal rebar, covering it with chicken wire, sheathing it with fabric attached with smelly animal glue, and then painting the inside of the enclosure black, and includting the outside in bright colors.
In the spirit of the new complex, where waste is carefully sorted into various categories of renewables, Shin's work is constructed from
recycled rebar collected at the old facility.»
The objects in the image seem preternaturally still, pushed off to the left side of the frame: a liquefied elastic globule seems to pull down or just barely rest at the very corner of a marble slab, above it there is a chunk of what looks like concrete with
rebar sticking erratically out of it that in turn appears to be floating upwards.
I had been working with the ceramic lace forms and these works were developing with the addition of
painted rebar.
Last weekend The Husband and I were having our coffee - time and somehow we ended up talking
about rebar and wood slices.
• Strong knowledge of all schematics and performed all welding and
rebar setup for footers and foundations, and structural steel support.
The most actively traded
rebar contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange rose as far as 3733 yuan ($ US586) a tonne, the highest since March 7.
Inventory of construction steel
product rebar among Chinese traders fell for a sixth straight week to 7.13 million tonnes on April 27, data compiled by SteelHome consultancy showed.
The Home Depot was completely destroyed, an unrecognizable mass of
tangled rebar and concrete.
In my travels, I've come across grills fashioned from oxy / acetylene tanks, oil drums, discarded farm implements, and
even rebar and recycled cyclone fencing.
The compositions feature large clumps of broad back - and - forth gray and white brushstrokes — think of whitewashed windows or rubbed - out chalk on blackboards — through which wander black spray - painted lines of varying thickness that suggest
bent rebar or mangled wire coat hangers.
This method requires a lot of brute strength, as you'll just drive large pieces of
rebar through the logs to pin them together stacking them onto each other.
The oncrete /
rebar footings are massive and frequent (~ 10 foot spacings) and set down into bedrock ~ 80 feet below the sand.
The Crown corporation overseeing the development near Fort St. John says the contract for the powerhouse, penstocks, spillways and power intakes involves pouring the equivalent of 280 Olympic - sized swimming pools of concrete, as well as installation of
enough rebar to build nearly five Eiffel towers.
For example, the steel
rebar futures contract traded on the Shanghai Futures Exchange, which ranks as the most actively traded metal futures contract in the world, saw a 24.8 % drop - off in volume in 2017.