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STEEL REINFORCEMENT 



locked, in position by means of a small disk, or washer, and 



by kinking the wires. 

 Electrically Welded 

 Fabric. The Clinton 

 wire cloth is a fabric 

 that is secured at the 

 intersections by a per- 

 fect electric weld, and 

 it has at intervals a 

 double wire that twines 

 in and out, as shown 

 at a, Fig. 15. 



Triangular- and 

 Square-Mesh Wire 

 Reinforcement. The 

 FIG. 15 two types of wire re- 



inforcement shown in Fig. 16 are extensively manufactured 

 for reinforced-concrete construction. The reinforcement 

 shown in (a) is known as the triangular-mesh reinforcement, 

 and that shown in (b) , as the square-mesh reinforcement. The 

 latter consists of heavy longitudinal wires and cross-wires, 

 or spacing wires. The cross-wires are carried through and 



11 



11 



FIG. 16 



twisted around the longitudinal wires so as to form the 

 rectangular spaces. 



