When positioned in the upper or top portion of the slab thickness, steel reinforcement limits the widths of random cracks that may occur because of concrete shrinkage and temperature restraints ...

As part of addressing this problem, a team at TU Dresden in Germany have completed what is believed to be the world’s first building made with carbon-reinforced concrete, in which the steel ...

thick cast-in-place concrete slabs at the 12th and 16th floors ... New concrete was also used to augment the existing steel super-columns’ structures since the increase in the building ...