Subject: Re: [permaculture] Ferrocement Building Project
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 23:09:29 -0800 (PST)
Aloha,
> I'd sure look at concrete reinforcing wire for some of these
> applications ya'll are describing.
What kind of wire are you referring to, Mark? The thicker, larger-mesh
(6" square, etc.) kind used for reinforcing slab pours and so on? Or...?
> I agree with Kirby that the chicken
> wire, made of two metals and thin, seems a little out of place.
Thin and many is good, for ferrocement - it's the fine matrix of embedded
tensile fibers (e.g. metal mesh, lath, etc. in most cases) that gives it
strength and rigidity. FC is a different combination of materials with
different properties than 'civil-engineering-style' steel-concrete (slabs,
bridges, beams, pilings, steps, etc. etc. )
John Schinnerer, MA
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