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To: AlexW
One thing that really troubles me is that the more recent tall buildings (1960+)are all concrete, with no structural steel.

Rebar is highly structural when encapsulated in concrete.

33 posted on 03/13/2011 6:19:55 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (The theft being perpetrated by Congress and the Fed makes Bernie Maddoff look like a pickpocket.)
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To: Thermalseeker

along with pre-stressed and post-stressed tensioning steel in concrete beams, but hey I’m just a dumb contractor


35 posted on 03/13/2011 6:53:00 AM PDT by representativerepublic (...loose lips, sink ships)
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