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Advantages and Disadvantages of Reinforced Concrete

Reinforced concrete is an amalgamation of conventional cement concrete along with reinforcements [steel bar]. The association is formed to use concrete’s compressive strength as well as steel’s tensile strength at the same time.

In reinforced concrete, the parts act jointly to oppose several sorts of loading. Moreover, concrete opposes compression as well as steel reinforcement opposes tension forces.

Furthermore, reinforced concrete, like a cost-effective building substance, is quite famous these days. It is extensively utilized in several sorts structure throughout the globe. Together with several benefits, reinforced concrete even exhibits certain demerits as well.

Benefits of Reinforced Concrete:

• Reinforced concrete possesses a good compressive strength in comparison with different building materials.
• Because of the offered reinforcement, reinforced concrete may even endure a fair/good quantity of tensile stress.
• Fire as well as weather resistance of reinforced concrete is good.
• The reinforced concrete building arrangement/system is much stable in comparison to different building arrangement/system.

• Reinforced concrete, like a fluid substance, in the start, could be cost-effectively formed into an almost wide assortment of forms.
• The cost of maintenance of reinforced concrete is quite reasonable.
• In formations/structures such as piers, footings, dams, and more reinforced concrete is the highly reasonable construction substance/material.
• It functions as/like a firm/rigid component/member having least deflection.
• Like reinforced concrete could be formed to a form needed, it is extensively utilized in precast structural components. Moreover, it delivers/yields rigid members having least apparent deflection.
• In comparison with the utilization of steel within/in structure, reinforced concrete needs limited skilled workforce for the formation/raising/erection of the structure.

Drawbacks of Reinforced Concrete:

• The reinforced concrete’s tensile strength is around one tenth of its compressive strength.
• The major measures of utilizing reinforced concrete are casting, mixing as well as curing. Furthermore, all of that impacts the ultimate strength.
• The outlay of the forms utilized in regard to/for casting RC is comparatively more.
• In regard to multi storey structure the RCC column section for is more than steel section for the reason that the compressive strength is less with regard to RCC.
• Shrinkage leads to crack formation as well as strength drop.

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