reinforced concrete
noun
1.
concrete containing steel bars, strands, mesh, etc., to absorb tensile and shearing stresses.
Origin
1900-05
Examples from the web for
reinforced concrete
reinforced concrete
buildings would go up at the rate of a floor per week, though the fit-out would take much longer.
reinforced concrete
can be done with other materials, such as composites.
Schematic details of representative
reinforced concrete
prism.
One was a
reinforced concrete
system, in which mild steel deformed bars connect the precast concrete components.
British Dictionary definitions for
reinforced concrete
reinforced concrete
noun
1.
concrete with steel bars, mesh, etc, embedded in it to enable it to withstand tensile and shear stresses