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GLOSSARY OF TERMS
RELATING TO CEMENT CONCRETE
PART III
CONCRETE
REINFORCEMENT
199i )
UDC 001.4:666.982.2
@ Copyright 1972
BUREAU
MANAK
OF INDIAN
BHAVAN.
BAHADUR
STANDARDS
SHAH
ZAFAR
MARG
Gr4
July 1972
Indian Standard
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
RELATING TO CEMENT CONCRETE
PART III
CONCRETE
Ccl~~(i~t
ami Concrete
REINFORCEMENT
Sectional
BDC 2
Committee,
Rgresenting
Clrnirnlnn
Cement Research
DR H. c. VISVESVARAYA
Institute
of India,New
Delhi
DR A. S. BHADURI
SHRI
E. K.
Institute
( GSIR ):
Roorkee
DR S. S. RE~SI ( Alternate )
Cent;ilhRoad
DIRECTOR
Dp R. K.
GHOSH
Research
Afternatc )
Institute
( CSIR ),
New
Designs
& Standards
Organization,
JOINT DIRECTOR, STANDARDS
Research,
Lucknow
(B&S)
DEP~ITY DIRECTOR, STANDARDS( B & S )
( Allernate)
SARI S. B. JOSHI
S. B. Joshi & Co Ltd, Bombay
SHRI M. T. KANSB
Directorate General of Supplies & Disposals
SHRI KARTIK PRASAD
Roads Wine.I Ministrv of Transoort
& ShiDDinQ
. . 1
SHRI S. L. KATIIURIA ( Afternatc )
SHRI S. R. KULKARNI
M. N. Dastur & Co ( Private ) Ltd, Calcutta
SHRI M. A. M~HTA
The Concrete Association of India, Bombay
SHRI 0. MUTHACHEN
Central Public Works Department
SUPERINTENDING
ENGINEER.END CIRCLE
( Alfernafc )
The Institution of Engineers ( India ), Calcutta
SHRI ERACH A. NADIRSHAH
In
personal
capacity
( Rnmnnalaya , II,
Firsf
SHRI K. K, NAMBI~R
Crescent
Park
Road,
Ga n&zo.pn r,
Adyar,
_ .
BRIG NARESH PRASAD
Car. J. M. TOLANI ( Alternate )
BUREAU
MANAK
OF
BHAVAN,
Madras 20 )
Engineer-in-Chiefs
.
( Continued on jag8 2 )
INDIAN
STANDARDS
9 BAHADUR
SHAH
NEW DELHI
110002
ZAFAR
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Stru~~te~ring
Representing
Research
Centre
( CSIR ),
DR N. S. BHAL ( Altrrnute )
National Buildings Organization,
New Delhi
DR A. V. R. RAO
SHRI RAVINDER LAL ( Alternate ).
Geological Survey of India, Nagpur
SHRI G. S. M. RAO
Gammon India Ltd, Bombay
SHRI T. N. S. RAO
SHRI S. R. PINHEIRO ( Alrernare )
Ctntral Board of Irrigation & Power, New Delhi
SECRETARY
Irrigation & Power Research Institute, Amritrar
SHRI R. P. SHARMA
SHRI MOWINDER SINGH ( Altsrnats )
Hindustan Housing Factory Ltd, New Delhi
&iRI G. B. SINCXi
SHRI C. L. KABLIWAL ( Alternate )
Beas Designs Organization,
Nangal Township
SHIU J. S. SINGIIOTA
SHRI A. M. SINGAL ( Alternatr )
The India Cemcntr Ltd, Madras
SHRI K. A. SUBRAMANIAM
SHRI T. S. RAMACWANDRAN( Alternate )
Dalmia Cement ( Bharat ) Ltd, New Delhi
SHRI L. SWAROOP
SHRI A. V. RAMANA ( Alternate )
Director Gcncral;/BIS(
.&o$cio Member )
SH~I D. AJITHA SIMHA,
Director ( Civ Engg )
Secretary
SHRI Y. R. TANEJA
Deputy
Concrete
Director
Subcommittee,
Convener
SHRI S. B. Josut
BDC
2:2
Members
Central
Building
Roorkee
DR S. M. K. CHETTY
Research
Institute
( CSIR),
personal. capacity
( Shri Kue,
Near Parkash
Housing Society, Athwa Lines, Swat I )
Research,
Designs
&
Standards
Organization,
DEPUTY DIRECTOR, STANDARDS
Lucknow
(B&S)
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, STANDARIM ( M/C )
( Alternate )
Engineering Research Laboratories, Hydcrabad
DIRECTOR
Central Water .& Power Commission, New Delhi
DIRECTOR ( C & MDD
DEPUTY
DIRECTOR 1 C & MDD ) (Alternate )
Stru~~r~engincering
Research
Centre
( CSIR),
SHRI V. K. GHANEKAR
SHRI A. S. PRASADA RAO ( A&emote
SHRI K. C. GHOSAL
SHRI A. K. BI~WAS ( Altwnak
S~ax V. N. G~JNAJI
Snxu P. J. JAGUS
SHRX S. R. KULKARNI
)
Buildings
& Communications
Department,
Bombay
Ltd, Bombay
Calcutta
The Associated
Cement Companic:
M. N. Dastur 8t Co.( Private ),Ltd,
( Cantinuad aU#a7g614 )
IS:6461(PartIII)-1972
Indian Standard
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
RELATING TO CEMENT CONCRETE
PAfiT
III
0.
CONCRETE
REINFORCEMENT
FOREWORD
American
formwork.
1. SCOPE
1.1 This standard
( Part
concrete reinforcement.
III ) covers
definitions
of terms
relating
to
2. DEFINITIONS
2.0 For the purpose
of this standard,
the following
definitions
shall apply.
from carbon-steel
Plain
and terminology
of terms relating
relating
to hydraulic
to pozzolana.
axles
divided
for railway
or deformed
the main
cement.
by the product
carriage
reinforcing
reinforcement
or
bars
in a
i
!
Bar -
Thin
A metal member
used to reinforce
etc.
concrete.
bends
steel reinforcement;
reinforcing
or during
: 1139-19661
and IS
: 1786-1966t
2.9.
2.13 Bending
prepared
by the
Schedule -A
list of reinforcement
designer or detailer of a reinforced
concrete structure showing the shapes
and dimensions of every bar and the number of bars required&
IS:6461(PartiII)-1972
concrete
contact;
due to
the bar
Stress -The
force of adhesion per unit area of contact
between two bonded surfaces, such as concrete and reinforcing steel or
any other material, such as foundation rock; shear stress at the surface of a
reinforcing bar, preventing relative movement between the bar and the
surrounding
concrete.
.
2.19 Bond
2.20 Bundle -
together.
!
t
\
rigid
assembly
of reinforcement
in
See 2.9.
2.24 Compression
Reinforcement
compressive stresses.
Reinforcement
designed to carry
reinforcing
bars in which
Coupler
a) A device for connecting reinforcing bars or prestressing tendom
end to end, also known as end connector or lock splice.
b) A device for locking together the component parts of a tubular
metal scaffold ( also known as a clamp ).
IS t 6461(
Block-Device
which maintains reinforcement
bars in
proper position and at proper distance from each other and from the forms
before and during concreting; or a device which keeps wall forms at a
given distance apart before and during concreting.
2.29 Cover
2.30 Crack-Control
Reinforcement
- Reinforcement
in concrete construction designed to prevent opening of cracks, but often effective in
limiting them to uniformly distributed small cracks.
2.31 Crimped
Wire -Wire
which is deformed into a curve which
approximates a sine curve as a means of increasing the capacity of the wire
to bond to the concrete; also welded wire fabric crimped to provide an
integral chair.
bar of steel produced by cold
2.32 Cold Twisted Defamed
Bar -A
twisting a hot rolled bar and which has lugs, ribs or deformations on its
surface in accordance with definitions for deformed bars in 2.10.
2.33 Deformed
Bar -
2.34 Deformed
in close contact.
Tie Bar -
2.35 Diamond
See 2.10.
Mesh -
See 2 41.
Reinforcement
- Tension
steel sometimes used to
strengthen otherwise inadequate edges in a slab, without resorting to edge
thickening.
2.36 Edge-Bar
2.37 Effective
Area
of
Reinforcement-The
area obtained by
multiplying the normal cross-sectional area of reinforcement by the cosine
of the angle between the direction of the reinforcement and the direction
in which the effectiveness is required.
2.38 Effective Area of Reinforcement
in Diagonal Bends - The area
obtained by multiplying the normal cross-sectional area of the reinforcement by the cosine of the angle at which the band is inclined to the
direction for which its effectiveness is considered.
2.39 Effective Reinforcement
- Reinforcement
be active in resisting the applied stresses.
2.40 Elastic Limit
wholly recoverable.
of a section assumed to
2.41 Expanded
Metal - A metal network, often used as reinforcement
in concrete construction, formed by suitably stamping or cutting sheet
metal and stretching it to form open meshes, usually of diamond shape.
f
Hending of reinforcing
bars
than
shop.
reinforcing
bar used for shear
in columns,
or prefabricated
2.44 Heavy-edge
Reinforcement - Wire
fabric
reinforccmcnt,
highway pavement slabs, having one to four edge wires heavier than
other longitudinal
wires.
2.45
See2.18.
bars generally
2.47 Hook -
A reinforcing
fn:.
lhe
in the case of
bar.
into
a hook
to
reinforcement
A connection
2.52 Lateral
Reinforcement
links, or helical reinforcement
of reinforcing
- Usually
in columns.
applied
to the transverse
Bar member
Reinforcement
or pavement.
Reinforcement
essentially
the unit
concreting
parallel
the
hoops,
( basket or
operations
to the long
See 2.54.
Main
Reinforcement
2.58 Mat-See
See 2.56.
2.11.
8
in either
sheets
or
rolling
of
2.63 Negative
moment.
Reinforcement
Welded-wire
Steel
fabric
reinforcement
for
negative
2.64 Non-prestressed
Reinforcement - Ordinary
or high. tensile
strength reinforcing steel, as used in prestressed concrete constructron, and
subjected to no prestressmg nor post-tensioning.
2.65 .Offset Bend -Any
bend in a reinforcing bar that displaces the
centre line of a section of the bar to a position parallel to the original bar,
in which the displacement is relatively small; commonly applied to column
verticals.
2.66 Pencil Rod -
Reinforcement
2.69 Proof Stress - The stress *which is just sufi%ient to produce, under
load, a non-proportional elongation equal to a specified percentage of the
original gauge length; oonventionally * the specified percentage is fixed
.
at 0.1 or 0.2 percent.
. 2.70 Rail Steel Reinforcement A- Reinforcing
standard T-section rails.
bars
/ :
hot-rolled
.
from
2.71 Reinforcement
- Metal ,,bars, wires, or other slender members
which are embedded% concrete in such a manner that the metal and the
concrete act together in resisting forces. ~
:
2.72 Reinforddm~ent,
Cold-Drawn
Wire --Steel
wire made from rods
that have been hot rolled from billets, coId-drawri through a die; for
t
,*IS : 1786-1966 Specification
for cold-twisted
(mired)
specifies this limit as O-2 percent.
steel
bars
for concrete
;
reinforcement
Movement
of reinforcing
steel
bars, usually
a concentrat-
Reinforcement, Helical -
Steel reinforcement
forming
a helix.
2.88 Reinforcement,
High
Tensile - Concrete
reinforcing
bars
having a minimum
yreld strength or O-2 percent proof stress above a specified value, such as 42 or 52 kgf/mm.
2.81 Reinforcement, Hoop-Binders
helical ) round the main reinforcement
applied
( other
to the transverse
than
hoops,
10
reinforcement,
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2.88 Reinforcement, Twin-Twisted
nal diameter twisted together.
2.89 Reinforcement, Two-Way bars at right angles to each other.
2.90 Reinforcement,
welding.
Welded -
Bar -Two
Reinforcement
Reinforcement
(Port III)-1972
in bands
together
of
by
Bar $upport
designed
to
xsist
See2.86.
by overlapp-
bar made
in
Stress
Corrosion -
Corrosion
of a metal accelerated
of wires
by stress.
the longitudinal
formwork secure
2.107 Transverae
Reinforcement
the principal axis of a member.
2.108
Twin-Twisted
Reinforcement
at right
angles
to
See 2.88.
placed in a concrete
member
to resist
See2.109.
Splice -A
reinforcing
and transverse
2.112 Welded-Wire
Fabric-A
series of longitudinal
wires arranged substantially at right angles to each other and welded
together at all points of intersection.
2.li3 Welded-Wire
Fabric Reinforcement either sheets or rolls, used to reinforce concrete.
Welded-wire
fabric
in
2.112.
Woven-Wire
Reinforcement
See 2.112.
12
value at
. . ..
low
stress,
or at which
a material
...
exhibits
: *
a specified
.
limiting
Representing
..National
Buildings Organization,
New Delhi
SHRI G. C. MATI~R
Sanr RAVINDER LAL ( Alfzma(c )
The Concrete
Association
of India, Bombay
SHRI M. A. MEWTA
SHRX C. L. N. IYENCAR ( A$rnale
)
Tor-lateg
Steel Corporation
Ltd. Calcutta
DR P. K. MOI~ANTY
DR R. S. PRASAD ( Alternate )
In personal
capacity
( Ramanalaya ,
II,
First
SHRI K. K. NAM~IAR
Ge.ve!zt
Purk
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Gundhinagar,
Adyar,
Madras 20 )
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Road
Research
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DR M. L. PURI
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New Delhi
Roads Wing, Ministry of Transport
& Shipping
SHRI N. S. RAMASWAMY
SHRI R. P. SIKKA ( Aftcrnafa)
Geol..qricai Survey of India, Nagpur
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Gammon
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