Steel vs. Concrete
02.Oct.2021
As commodity prices fluctuate, so does architectural design. In times of lower steel prices, more steel and less concrete are used, and vice versa. Each group of suppliers and users usually maintain national industry associations that advocate the use of their materials over the other. However, both materials are typically used together. Unreinforced steel concrete (usually round ribbed bars called rebar) crumbles under tensile loads. Steel alone, without solid concrete floors, is also not a preferred construction method.
While rebar is always steel, it is not considered structural steel and is described separately in the rebar and reinforced concrete items. While both steel structures and reinforced concrete (RCC) concrete structures have their pros and cons, steel structures have a better strength-to-weight ratio than RCC ones and can be easily disassembled (steel structures, which have bolted connections can also be reused to some extent). after disassembly).