What are these called?

[alpacinou]

What are these called? How can they be described and what verb should go with them? "Hanging"? "Sticking out"?

 

[alpacinou]

Can I use "rebar" for them?

Is this okay?

Out of crumbled, fragmented concrete stuck out rebar that looked like disheveled hair spreading out in different directions.

 

[probus]

Rebar (pronounced REEbar) is the correct name for the steel reinforcing rods embedded in concrete. That's really engineering or construction jargon. Plenty of native speakers wouldn't know the word rebar. Those in the rubble picture don't appear to be hanging. I'd say they are protruding or sticking out.

 

[tedmc]

Sections of the concrete slab have given way ripping out the mesh of steel reinforcement bars embedded within.

 

[Tdol]

Reinforcement bars might be clearer to non-specialists.

 

[Skrej]

Anyone else see the skeleton of some winged predator, head and legs drooping, decayed wings spread?

I think 'rebar' is common enough a fair percentage of readers would know the term.

 

[5jj]

I think 'rebar' is common enough a fair percentage of readers would know the term.

It was new to me until I came across it somewhere in the last couple of weeks.

 

[jutfrank]

This is the first time I'm hearing 'rebar'.

 

[emsr2d2]

I know the word but only in Spanish! I thought it was a Spanish term (used by a builder I know there). I didn't know it was English too!

 

[probus]

Anyone else see the skeleton of some winged predator, head and legs drooping, decayed wings spread?

@Skrej 4/20 was days ago!

 

[Skrej]

Ah, well maybe it's just more commonly known where I'm at then, or maybe I'm influenced by having been involved in pouring more concrete than I care to. Growing up on a farm, we frequently had to pour slabs for water tanks, new buildings, etc. There's a pretty strong DIY sentiment regionally as well. Folks will often do the prep and form work themselves, then order in the wet mix, especially for larger projects.

Along with rebar, there's also remesh. As you might surmise, it's a woven fence-like material instead of individual bars.

A large percentage of our local economy is construction trades as well, so even if someone isn't actually involved with concrete, they know some of the buzzwords. Concrete is also commonly used in highways as an alternative to asphalt, so you're constantly driving by road construction where you can see all the metalwork involved prior to the pours.

My mother's house is composed completely of poured concrete. The walls were formed by pouring concrete into interlocking hollow Styrofoam blocks, tied together internally with a network of rebar. The molds then stay on after the concrete has solidified, to add extra insulation value.

Thus, her exterior walls are 14 inches thick. Precast concrete slabs with metal plates form the roof. The metal plates are welded to matching plates embedded in the top of the concrete walls, so essentially her exterior shell is one solid piece.

Yes, we live in tornado country, and she wanted a house as tornado-proof as possible. In theory, it should withstand a direct hit from a tornado and remain standing, although of course there would be cosmetic damages. Regardless, it's not a theory one particularly wishes to test.