...indeed there should but, alas, it is not there. The design engineer is far away and unavailable and thus I asked the question, in all humility, on this site, my last resort...
So... the "L" strongly appears to be length of individual rebars for take-off purposes. For me, it's odd to see...
I've got a bunch that look like this:
13T32c195L8000
That's 13 x 32 mm diameter bars and then...
c195? spaced at 195 mm? OK, that's a tight, say, 8 inches, but it would make sense for what I've got...
L8000? 8000 mm long?
Thanks for any information!
Oh, one more thing. Has anyone using the diameter symbol run into trouble contractually? That is, does a "Ø25" call-out signify that the diameter of that particular rebar "shall" be 25 mm? Or, if, in my plan notes/specs, I cite the appropriate standard - like ASTM A615M or GHOST this, BS that...
TXStructural: this is very interesting information. Wow! The BS is charging 196 pounds for a 74-page document! Man, that makes the AISC look like a cheap lemonade stand...
Ussuri: That is also interesting, useful information. My own opinion is that I would try to avoid different grades of rebar...
OK, thanks for the input.
I should clarify, while I am working in the USA, this is a project in a European country to be built by Europeans. And all my calcs are in metric. What's the most common practice in Europe and if anyone can point me to a definative resource (I haven't found one on the...
I have a drawing showing European rebar, calling out the rebar as "Ø25" that refers to 25 mm diameter reinforcing. I have another drawing calling it out as "#25" that an American like myself would verbally identify as "number twenty-five rebar" knowing that the #25 stands for a 25 mm rebar as...
