| Placing Reinforcing Bars presents the best accepted current practices in placing reinforcing bars. It is written for apprentices, journeymen ironworkers, and inspectors. Definitive resource for preparing provisions in project specifications. Eighteen heavily illustrated chapters cover: materials, handling bars at the jobsite, general principles for bar placing, splicing, and tying; placing bars in footings, walls, columns, floors, roofs, pavements and highway structures; and coated reinforcing bars.
From the Foreword
The Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute was organized in 1924 as a cooperative, nonprofit organization of fabricators and producers of reinforcing bars and accessories, together with persons or entities otherwise involved in reinforced concrete construction. CRSI has published this book in the interest of better reinforced concrete construction.
Improved methods of reinforced concrete design require improvement in the quality control of materials, in fabricating practices, and in procedures followed in placing reinforcing steel.
This book represents the best-accepted current practices in placing reinforcing bars, bar supports, and welded wire reinforcement. It is written primarily for those actually engaged in placing reinforcing steel. It will also serve as a guide to the field inspector in judging workmanship and in making field adjustments.
Safe reinforced concrete construction depends, to a large extent, on the correct location of all reinforcing steel as shown on the project drawings. Skilled workers with a good knowledge of the best practices are of vital importance to safe construction.
Those engaged in placing reinforcing steel must know how to unload, handle, place, and tie reinforcing steel. They should also be able to read placing drawings, and have a general knowledge of reinforced concrete design. Knowing why reinforcing steel must be placed in a certain way is as important to the skilled worker as knowing how to do it. This book concerns itself with the whys as well as the hows.
Many union organizations, contractors, and bar fabricators who also place reinforcing steel, recognizing the need for special knowledge in this field, sponsor apprentice programs and training programs. This book should prove a valuable textbook for any such program.
The recommendations and examples in this publication, concerning the selection and use of reinforcing materials, methods of splicing, welding processes and procedures, proprietary mechanical splices, and accessories are merely illustrative. |
