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Peter’s College
Sabayle St., Iligan City
College of Engineering
Civil Engineering Department

Reinforced Concrete Design

Activity 1
Definition of Terms

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Task:
List down at least 50 terms related to Reinforced Concrete Design course and give a definition
of each terms.

1. AASHTO - American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials

2. 2. ABUTMEN - Supporting substructure at ends of bridges.
3. ACI—American Concrete Institute
4. ANCHORAGE—The securing of reinforcing steel in concrete either by straight embedment,
hooks, or headed bar
5. ANSI— American National Standards Institute
6. ARC WELDING—A process by which the two pieces of steel to be joined are heated by an arc
formed between an electrode and the steel. As the electrode melts, it supplies weld material
which fuses the pieces of steel together.
7. ARCHITECT—A person or firm who prepares the architectural drawings that determine the design
and form of buildings. The Architect is usually employed by and represents the Owner.
8. ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS—Drawings which show the general design and form of structures
by means of elevations, plans and sections; show the various materials such as brick, concrete,
glass, masonry, steel, stone and wood and their dimensions; show fixtures and finishes for
ceilings, floor surfaces and walls.
9. ASTM—American Society for Testing and Materials.
10. AWS—American Welding Society.
11. AXLE-STEEL REINFORCING BARS—deformed reinforcing bars rolled from steel axles for railroad
cars.
12. BAND—Group of reinforcing bars distributed in a slab or wall or footing.
13. BANDED TENDONS—Prestressing tendons which are grouped into a narrow “band” 3 to 4 feet
wide over the columns. Tendons in the perpendicular direction are spaced uniformly.
14. BAR—Steel bar used to reinforce concrete.
15. BAR-END CHECK—Check of the ends of reinforcing bars to determine whether they fit the
devices intended for mechanically splicing the bars.
16. BAR LIST—Bill of materials, where all quantities, sizes, lengths and bending dimensions of the
reinforcing bars are shown.
17. BAR NUMBER—A number, approximately the bar diameter in eighths of an inch [whole
millimeters], used to designate the reinforcing bar size. For example: A #5 [#16] bar is
approximately 5/8 inch [16 millimeters] in diameter: a #9 [#29] bar is approximately 9/8 inches [29
millimeters] in diameter. Bar numbers are rolled onto the bar for easy identification.
18. BAR OFF—Unloading reinforcing bars from a truck bed by levering individual bundles over the
side with pinch bars.
19. BAR PLACER or PLACER—Worker who handles and places reinforcing steel and bar supports.
20. SUBCONTRACTOR—A contractor or subcontractor who handles and places reinforcement and
bar supports often colloquially referred to as a “bar placer” or “placer.”
21. BAR SPACING—Distance between parallel reinforcing bars measured from center-to-center of the
bars perpendicular to their longitudinal axes.
22. BAR SUPPORTS—Devices of formed wire, plastic or precast concrete, to support, hold, and
space reinforcing bars.
23. BASKET—Wire assembly to support and space dowel bars along the expansion joints in concrete
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24. BEAM—A horizontal structural member supporting loads from a floor or roof system to columns,
girders or walls.
25. BEAM AND SLAB FLOOR CONSTRUCTION—A reinforced concrete floor system in which a solid
slab is supported by beams or girders of reinforced concrete.
26. BEAM
BOLSTER—Continuous bar support used to support the reinforcing bars in the bottom of beams.
27. BEAM BOLSTER UPPER—Continuous bar support for the upper layer of bottom reinforcing bars
in beams and top reinforcing bars in bridge deck slabs.
28. BEAM SCHEDULE—Table on a placing drawing giving the quantity, size and mark number of
beams; the quantity, size, length and mark numbers of reinforcing bars and stirrups (including
stirrup spacing), and, where specified, the stirrup support bars and beam bolsters.
29. BELLED—Having a butt or bottom end shaped like a bell, often used on concrete piers or
caissons.
30. BENT—A self-supporting reinforced concrete frame with one or more columns, usually at right
angles to the length of the structure it supports. Example: The columns and cap supporting the
spans of a bridge is called a bent.
31. BENT BAR—A reinforcing bar bent to a prescribed shape such as a truss bar, straight bar with
end hook, stirrup, or column tie.
32. BENT CAP—A reinforced concrete beam or block, extending across and encasing the heads of
columns, comprising the top of a bent for the bridge span above.
33. BILL OF LADING—A list that gives each part or mark number, quantity, length of material, total
weight, or other description of each piece of material that is shipped to a jobsite.
34. BILLET—Piece of semi-finished steel, nearly square in section, formed by hot-rolling an ingot or
bloom, from which reinforcing bars are rolled.
35. BOLT CUTTER—A tool used to cut reinforcing bars on the job-site. Smaller (wire) mesh cutters
are used to cut welded wire reinforcement or bundle wires.
36. BOND—Holding or gripping force between reinforcing steel and concrete.
37. BOX CULVERT—A tunnel-like reinforced concrete structure consisting of single or multiple
openings, usually square or rectangular in cross section.
38. BOX GIRDER—A bridge having a top and bottom slab with two or more walls forming one or
more rectangular bays. The wall heights may be variable in order to provide an arched bottom
slab.
39. BRACKET—An overhanging member projecting from a wall, column, girder, or beam to support
the weight of a structural member.
40. BREAK (A SPIRAL)—Opening a spiral to the round shape and forcing it toward the opposite
direction that it was folded (collapsed) so that it will remain circular for placing.
41. BUILDING CODE—Laws or regulations set up by building departments of cities, states and
Federal Government, for uniformity in design and construction practices.
42. BULKHEAD—Partition placed in a form to hold fresh concrete, earth, or water.
43. BUNDLE OF BARS—A bundle consists of one size, length or mark (bent) of reinforcing bars tied
together, with the following exceptions; (1) very small quantities may be bundled together for
convenience, and (2) groups of varying bar lengths or marks (bent) that will be placed adjacent
may be bundled together. Maximum weight of bundles is dependent on regional practices and
site conditions.
44. BUNDLED BARS—A group of not more than four parallel reinforcing bars in contact with each
other, usually tied together.
45. BURNING REINFORCEMENT—Cutting reinforcing bars with an oxy-acetylene torch.
46. BUTT-WELDED SPLICE—Reinforcing bar splice made by welding the butted ends.
47. CAISSONS—Piers usually extending through water or soft soil to solid earth or rock. Also cast-in-
place, drilled-hole piles.
48. CANTILEVER BEAM—Beam which extends beyond the supports in an overhanging position with
the extended end unsupported. Similarly such a slab is called a cantilever slab.
49. CARBON-STEEL REINFORCING BARS—Reinforcing bars rolled from steel billets in contrast to
rail or axle steel.
50. CAT-HEAD—A light frame and a sheave at the top of a material tower through which the lifting
cable is operated.
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