Concrete buildings are more resistant to fire than those constructed using wood or steel frames, since concrete does not burn.

Concrete tables with a steel net are sometimes available in public parks.

Concrete wall cracking as steel reinforcing corrodes and swells.

Concrete reinforced with fibers ( which are usually steel, glass, or plastic fibers ) is less expensive than hand-tied rebar, while still increasing the tensile strength many times.

Concrete was poured in the middle of the Arctic winters, buildings were constructed, electricity, heat and water provided, huge steel antenna towers were erected, airstrips and hangars were built and putting it all together in darkness, blizzards and sub-zero cold.

Concrete is then placed, filling the desired thickness and surrounding all steel inserts, embedded features and rebar.

Concrete supports were built under the approach spans and steel archways constructed under the long spans either side of the central Britannia Tower.

Concrete ships are ships built of steel and ferrocement ( reinforced concrete ) instead of more traditional materials, such as steel or wood.

Concrete and steel were used to anchor the towers and main vault.

Concrete decks have been poured on mezzanine and upper balconies, and the steel frame has been erected and the slab poured for the Academic Wing.

Concrete is commonly used for low piers, while steel trestle work may be used for high bridges.

St Dominic's Priory was the largest un-reinforced concrete building in the southern hemisphere ( steel reinforcing being then a little used construction method ), and earned Petre the lasting nickname of " Lord Concrete ".

Direct translation of the bands name is steel concrete, Finnish for Reinforced Concrete.

Concrete masonry, exposed structural steel, glass and metal roofs make up the majority of the building exteriors.

Concrete is quite a good insulator when dry and steel is a good conductor.

Concrete was placed via a massive steel trestle system high and long, along which ran small powered railcars that delivered buckets of concrete from the mixing plant.

* Concrete cover ( depth of the concrete between reinforcing steel and outer surface )

Concrete poured to date 9650 cubic yards. Structural steel is approximately 500 tons.

Concrete additives have been used since Roman and Egyptian times, when it was discovered that adding volcanic ash to the mix allowed it to set under water.

If ( E, M ) is a factorization system, then the morphisms in M may be regarded as the embeddings, especially when the category is well powered with respect to M. Concrete theories often have a factorization system in which M consists of the embeddings in the previous sense.

Concrete floors are usually so massive they do not have this problem, but they are also much more expensive to construct and must meet more stringent building requirements due to their weight.

As a result of the efforts of magazines like VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, " Ambassador ", a publication of the National Italian American Foundation and Italian Americana, edited by Carol Bonomo Albright, and numerous authors young and old, as well as early immigrant pioneer writers like poet Emanuel Carnevali (" Furnished Rooms ") and novelist Pietro DiDonato, author of Christ in Concrete, Italian Americans have been reading more works of their own writers.

The public art in Milton Keynes includes the ( in ) famous Concrete Cows, which resulted from the work of an ' artist in residence ' and have gone on to become a recognised landmark.

All other pressings of the album have the track Concrete And Clay instead-and an instrumental version of the same song.

Concrete caisson structures, pioneered by the Condeep concept, often have in-built oil storage in tanks below the sea surface and these tanks were often used as a flotation capability, allowing them to be built close to shore ( Norwegian fjords and Scottish firths are popular because they are sheltered and deep enough ) and then floated to their final position where they are sunk to the seabed.

Concrete floors are usually so solid they do not have this problem, but are also much more expensive to construct, and much heavier, resulting in further requirements regarding the structure of the building.

Concrete installations remain, but the buildings that were less durable have either been demolished or were torn down by the elements.

Concrete can be made to have high compressive strength, e. g. many concrete structures have compressive strengths in excess of 50 MPa, whereas a material such as soft sandstone may have a compressive strength as low as 5 or 10 MPa.

Concrete and asphalt sidewalks have largely been replaced by brick.

Concrete change within the university would have to wait until the first female colleges were formed, and following the foundation of Girton College ( 1869 ) and Newnham ( 1872 ) women were allowed into lectures, albeit at the discretion of the lecturer.

Concrete sleepers have a longer service life and require less maintenance than timber due to their greater weight which helps them remain in the correct position longer.

Concrete monoblock sleepers have also been produced in a wider form ( e. g. ) such that there is no ballast between the sleepers ; this wide sleeper increases lateral resistance and reduces ballast pressure.

These have been re-sized, slightly smaller, but have collected every ' Concrete ' story ( though a few pages of the story " Moving a Big Rock " have not been reprinted.

Concrete bulkheads have been poured behind the upper lock gates of Locks 5-14 to strengthen the weakest link in the dam structures.

Concrete walkways have been placed ( 6, 000 square metres ), new stairways and new lighting have been also installed.

Concrete cures exothermically, so that pouring that much concrete would have caused the permafrost to melt and the concrete pad thus to sink or tilt.

Concrete categories have forgetful functors to the category of sets — indeed they may be defined as those categories that admit a faithful functor to that category.

* The comic series Concrete ( 1986 -) revolved around the life of an ordinary human whose brain had been placed in a large artificial stone body by aliens.

The more conservative radio-listeners in Concrete ( who had been listening to Charlie McCarthy on another station ), attempted to calm neighbors, reporting that they hadn't heard a thing about any " disaster ".

* Concrete River Days – A summer festival held on the second weekend in July, with a parade, sidewalk sales, and many outdoor activities ; so named because the Palouse riverbed in downtown Colfax has been lined with concrete for the sake of flood control, and the water descends into a narrow central channel during the dry season.

It has been suggested that the term ' Junglist ' was a reference to a person either from a ghetto of Kingston known as ' The Concrete Jungle ' or from a different suburb, ' The Gardens ', which was a leafy area colloquially referred to as ' The Jungle '.

The airport was closed by 1945 and in more recent times has been home to the Jobe Concrete Products " Planeport " cement factory.

Concrete blocks weighing several tons had been placed around the footings of these piers and the space between the blocks and the piers backfilled with gravel, but the lahar was strong enough to sweep these away.

Concrete has been the predominant building material in this modern age due to its longevity, formability, and ease of transport.

Concrete ties have been standard on mainline railroads in Europe since the 1960s.

Concrete ties have also been the renewal standard on rapid transit applications in North America.

Concrete poles have also been used.

James Andrew Mankey is an American rock guitarist, who has been the longtime guitarist in Concrete Blonde and also played with Sparks.

Concrete stamps are placed on the concrete after the color release has been applied.