Cary Kopczynski Bellevue, Wash. ENR 9/26-10/3/16 p. 30 Earthquake engineer pioneered the use of high-strength steel fiber as a much-needed rebar decongestant in shear-wall link beams. If he hadn ...

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Batch-plant-mixed steel-fiber-reinforced concrete (SFRC), which is ductile and strong, cuts link-beam rebar by about 40%. ... senior director of design and construction for Vulcan Inc.

This was illustrated with two beams, a 5.5"x8"x45'' block of concrete with 3/8" diameter rebar positioned parellel to the faces of the concrete block as well as 1/2" diameter rebar positioned axially, ...