Glass fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC) is a type of fiber-reinforced concrete. The product is also known as glassfibre reinforced concrete or GRC in British...

Fiber-reinforced concrete or fibre-reinforced concrete (FRC) is concrete containing fibrous material which increases its structural integrity. It contains...

not as rigid as carbon fiber, it is much cheaper and significantly less brittle when used in composites. Glass fiber reinforced composites are used in...

fibreglass (Commonwealth English) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber. The fibers may be randomly arranged, flattened into a sheet...

with hand-tied rebars. Concrete reinforced with fibers (which are usually steel, glass, plastic fibers) or cellulose polymer fiber is less expensive than...

and home insulation (glass wool) reinforcement of composite materials (glass-reinforced plastic, glass fiber reinforced concrete) specialty papers in...

fiber-reinforced polymers (American English), carbon-fibre-reinforced polymers (Commonwealth English), carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics, carbon-fiber...

Textile-reinforced concrete is a type of reinforced concrete in which the usual steel reinforcing bars are replaced by textile materials. Instead of using...

nonmetallic fiber has been put into operation. Design rules, "which eliminated the legal vacuum in the design of basalt reinforced fiber reinforced concrete. According...

Glass cloth is a textile material woven from glass fiber yarn. Glass cloth was originally developed to be used in greenhouse paneling, allowing sunlight's...

Uranium glass is glass which has had uranium, usually in oxide diuranate form, added to a glass mix before melting for colouration. The proportion usually...

fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other. Such fibers find wide usage in fiber-optic...

active gain medium in fiber lasers for fiber-optic communication. Wafer (electronics) Evgeny Dianov (16 September 2015). "Fiber for Fiber Lasers: Bismuth-doped...

goal in fluoride glass research and development is an ultra-low loss optical fiber communication system. Since fluoride glass fibers are transparent in...

idea of rebar in reinforced concrete or other such examples. Despite this belief, wired glass is actually weaker than unwired glass due to the incursions...

Borosilicate glass is a type of glass with silica and boron trioxide as the main glass-forming constituents. Borosilicate glasses are known for having...

toughened glass is a type of safety glass processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strength compared with normal glass. Tempering...

material for optical fiber, used for telecommunications. Because of its strength and high melting point (compared to ordinary glass), fused quartz is used...

Brian (2013). Glass Reinforced Plastics. Elsevier. pp. 3–41. ISBN 978-1-4831-0298-6. Mayer, Rayner M. (1993). Design with reinforced plastics. Springer...

for reinforcing bar), known when massed as reinforcing steel or steel reinforcement, is a tension device added to concrete to form reinforced concrete and...

Lead glass, commonly called crystal, is a variety of glass in which lead replaces the calcium content of a typical potash glass. Lead glass contains typically...

quartz fiber. Body of electrode, made from non-conductive glass or plastics. The bottom of a pH electrode balloons out into a round thin glass bulb. The...

Fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP; also called fibre-reinforced polymer, or in American English fiber) is a composite material made of a polymer matrix reinforced...

Soda–lime glass, also called soda–lime–silica glass, is the most prevalent type of glass, used for windowpanes and glass containers (bottles and jars)...

known as Dutch tears or Batavian tears) are toughened glass beads created by dripping molten glass into cold water, which causes it to solidify into a tadpole-shaped...

strength, and lightweight concrete Precast and poured-mold concrete Fibercement and ferrocement products Glass fiber reinforced concrete Countertops, art sculptures...

compounds, chiefly the metasilicate, also called waterglass, water glass, or liquid glass. The product has a wide variety of uses, including the formulation...

designs of smoothness and finish, the columns were finished with glass fiber reinforced concrete permanent form works. The effect of the design and height on...

it was created from as it survived a short fall onto concrete. In the late 1950s two more glass-ceramic materials would be developed by Stookey, one found...

(literally 'sphere house', or 'ball house') is constructed with Glass fiber reinforced concrete. The houses were prefabricated in Rotterdam and could be erected...