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    Definition of concrete detailing acronym

    The #6@5" and the #6@4" are not perpendicular to one another. There are two different conditions in the slab that they detailed a slab A and a slab B. In both cases the reinforcing is primary reinforcing. I am thinking it is suppose to read B.A.B.U. and means "bend alternating bars up" or...
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    Definition of concrete detailing acronym

    I am analyzing an existing concrete floor for new floor loads. I have the drawings, but I am not famaliar with some of the acronyms used on the drawings. The drawings are from 1969. I am looking at a three-span cast-in-place concrete strucutral slab and trying to determine the frequency of...

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