Unlike re-rod or wire mesh added during a pour, fiber-strand reinforcing is uniform throughout the slab. “For thermal movement and expansion control, fiber reinforcing is as good as metal reinfo ...

A textile reinforcement mesh consists of yarns, where each yarn consists of thousands of thin filaments (long continuous fibres). The reinforcement mesh is cast into concrete, and when the textile ...

For example, in a study comparing suture repair of incisional hernia to mesh repair ... demonstrate that components separation and midline reinforcement with a variety of graft materials in ...

New materials are always of interest here at Hackaday, so it’s worth reading further about the nature of the reinforcement. The carbon fiber is woven into a mesh, or as a composite material that ...