The construction loads, especially the floors, are curved with reinforced concrete columns. Columns must be built both vertically and horizontally so that they absorb pressure equally.
Basically, reinforcement is essential to give tensile strength to the newly built structure. If reinforcement had never been invented, many concrete buildings would not have been built. Building reinforcement encompasses many types of components and structures. Some of them include beams, foundations, walls, slab frames, columns, and many more.
Most of the time, many reinforced concretes can be classified as cast-in-place or precast concrete. The floor system is where much of the focus in reinforced concrete takes place. The key to building optimal building structures is in the design and implementation. There can be a big impact on the building as a whole if a small change is made to the layout of the floor. The impact is typically realized on the construction schedule, material cost, operating cost, ultimate strength, end use of the building, and occupancy level. Basically, concrete is a mixture of Portland cement and ballast along with water.
Cement hydrates after it is mixed with water, locking the aggregate into a rigid structure after forming opaque crystalline lattices that encapsulate it. Any small appreciable stress can easily break the rigid microscopic network leading to separation and cracking of the concrete. If this happens, the building can easily collapse. Therefore, reinforced concrete must be balanced very well to avoid this type of accident. There are about three key characters that give concrete special properties.
In the first place, the coefficient of thermal expansion of steels is similar to that of concrete. This results in the elimination of internal stresses due to different thermal expansion and contraction. The second character is that after the concrete has hardened and taken shape, it now resumes the details of the surface causing the stresses to be shared equally between it (the concrete) and the steel bars.
Steel is usually more resistant to corrosion, mainly due to the presence of alkaline chemicals. It is not just any steel that should be used for reinforced concrete. Construction steels come in different sizes and each size is supposed to be used for the intended job. By using steel for a job it was not intended for, the structure can easily collapse causing property destruction and even death. Therefore, safety measures should always be considered when building any type of structure.