As to the nature of possible defects, we foresee a process of gradual deterioration of the reinforced concrete structural members.
The demolition of the structure, which is of reinforced concrete, would require a great deal of money.
Does he not realise that reinforced concrete bars are often designed by the person who supplies the bars and that the price includes the design?
The internal diameter will be 3·6m while the reinforced concrete walls will be 200mm thick, giving an overall diameter of 4m.
For the early modernists, this question was redefined when the rise of the steel frame and then reinforced concrete dissolved the traditional relationship between structural solid and void.
For the specified objectives and loadings, a two-bay two-storey reinforced concrete frame structure has been selected by the structural designer and on-site construction of the structure by the construction planner.
Our second example, more specifically related to the twentieth century, relies on the inversion ofweight distribution by means of pilotis in steel or reinforced concrete.
Within the massive volume, also of reinforced concrete, is carved a fluid yet labyrinthine landscape, organized around a system of two-way waffle slabs with regularized parallelogram waffles and shear walls.
