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Terminology of Construction

1) Tie Hoop
Horizontally placed bar in order to prevent reinforcement from buckling and maintain
spacing of bars.

2) Main Bar
Reinforcement that take charge of tensile and compressive load in beams and
pillars, etc.
In general, thick bars are used for tensile load and thin bars are for shear strength.
This thick bar for tensile load is considered as main bar, however, all the bars for
reinforcement are termed 'main bar'

3) Double Reinforcement Bar

Two strips of bar are arranged in the retaining wall in both longitudinal and transverse
directions, and this bi-strip reinforcement is "double reinforcement".

4) Single Reinforcement Bar

Opposite to double reinforcement.
Only one strip of bar is arranged in the retaining walls.

5) Assist(Support) Bar
Extra bars to be placed to maintain the shapes and locations of main reinforcement.

6) Top(Upper part) Bar

Bars at the top span of beams or slabs.

7) Bottom(Lower part) Bar

Bars at the bottom span of beams or slabs
8) Hunch
Hunch is, in general, placed onto the pillars in order to strengthen the junction of a
beam and a pillar, hunch is also placed in walls to fortify the junction of the floor and
walls.

9) Shear Reinforcement Bar(Vertical direction bar)

Reinforcement for shear strength, such as stirrup and tie hoop.

10) Stirrup
Reinforcement that encloses main bars to help them arrest mixed concrete and
maintain their shapes and spacing.
Both ends should be hooked more than 135.

11) Bearing Wall

Walls that sustain both vertical force and horizontal force.
Reinforcement wall takes the most exterior force against the walls.

12) Reinforcement Bar

Hoops in pillars or stirrups in beams to sustain horizontal force and shear strength to
prevent the crack of building or to maintain cover depth of the concrete.

Shear strength?
Shear strength is strength that restrains shear of members by external forces.
Shear strength increases if it approaches to the end of a beam.

13) Distribution Bar

Bars that arrange the main bars and distributes loads uniformly to the main bar.
14) Bent Bar
Bars that are placed in beams in order to effectively sustain tensile load at the end
span of a beam.
These days, cut-bars are often used instead of bent bars.

15) Deformed Bar

Bars that have threads on the surface to help strong bonds between bars and concrete.

16) Tension Bar

Bars that sustain tensile loads.

17) Compression Bar

Bars that sustain compression loads.

18) High Strength(tensile) Bar

HD is a high strength bar that has more than 3,500kg/cm2 of yield strength.
HD contains Si, Mn and Ni in it. (also called "high bar" in brief)

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20) Application of @
Indicates distance between bars in stirrup, hoop and other reinforcement.