What are composite mesh networks?
GFRP (Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer) Composite Mesh Networks are used as an alternative to steel meshes in construction. These meshes are composed of a combination of glass fibers polymer resin and polymer connections and have advantages such as lightness, high flexibility, resistance to breakage, and insensitivity to corrosion.
GFRP composite mesh networks are used in the construction industry to strengthen concrete, improve structural stability, reduce structural weight, and resistance against corrosion. Also, they are used in the construction of complex structures such as shopping centers, bridges, squares, and stadiums.
Due to their unique characteristics, GFRP composite meshes can be recognized as a suitable alternative to their steel counterparts in the construction industry.
Advantages of using composite mesh networks and comparison against their steel countertype
- • 3 times more tensile strength than steel meshes
- • 8 times lighter than steel meshes
- • Anti-corrosion and anti-electromagnetism
- • Cheaper than steel meshes
- • More economical than other methods in terms of saving materials, weight and time
- • High resistance due to polymer connections and regular knots
- • Speeds up wire placement operation compared to other methods
- • Ease of transportation and reduced installation costs
- • Optimal use of rebar
- • Much smaller number of manpower
- • Higher and faster execution speed
- • Ready-to-use mesh has more integrity and order in connections and wells.
- • Higher resistance due to polymer connections and regularity of the knots.
- • Adhesion with concrete is much greater and higher compared to other methods because of polymer joints and the significant thickness and high strength of these joints.
- • The anti-corrosion and anti-electromagnetic properties of polymer joints are extremely important in comparison to wire or welding in steel mesh networks in places with high corrosion.
Applications of Rebar Mesh Networks:
The composite mesh networks are used in various types of composite ceilings, walls, and prefabricated concrete parts, floors of halls, warehouses, highways and airports, foundations of buildings and concrete foundations, creating tunnels, building subways and bridges, creating concrete dams, special water supply channels, fencing around warehouses, airports, parking lots, building silos, flooring, etc.
In response to the question of what is the use of composite mesh networks, the answer is that these products have many uses in various industries, which we will discuss further:
– All flooring and thermal reinforcements of buildings
– In shotcrete projects
– Precast concrete structures
– Foundation, wall, ceiling and…
– Projects of canal and subway and…
– Composite or concrete walls and prefabricated parts
– The floors of halls, warehouses, highways and airports
– Construction of concrete foundations
– Construction of tunnels, underground, and bridges
– Construction of concrete dams, water supply channels
– Construction of concrete silos, concrete tanks, and…
