Reinforcing steel rod with improved reverse bendability

• US 5,038,545 A
• Filed: 05/03/1989
• Issued: 08/13/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Heribert Hiendl
• Original Assignee: Heribert Hiendl
• Inventors: Hiendl, Heribert
• Primary Examiner(s): Chilcot, Jr., Richard E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ripley, Deborah McGann
• Application Number:
  US07/346,849
• Time in Patent Office: 832 Days
• Field of Search: 52/737-738, 52/295, 52/378, 52/739, 52/740, 52/250, 52/251, 52/259, 52/713, 29/897, 29/897.3, 29/897.34
• US Class Current: 52/851
• CPC Class Codes: E04C 5/03 with indentations, projections, ribs, or the like, for augmenting the adherence to the concrete
• CPC Class Codes: E04G 21/125 Reinforcement continuity box
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49632 Metal reinforcement member for nonmetallic, e.g., concrete, structural element

Abstract

A reinforcing steel for use particularly in reinforcing connections. The steel including ribbing and/or shaping along its surface to allow for bonding in concrete, but also including portions where the surface is free of ribbing and/or shaping at points where the steel is intended to be bent. This structure allows for increased load bearing capabilities where bending takes place.

Claims

1. Reinforcing steel able to be statically and dynamically stressed in an area of a bending point that has been bent back comprising, ribbing or shaping on the surface of said reinforcing steel, wherein said reinforcing steel, on said areas provided for a bending and subsequent bending back, is free of said ribbing or shaping at least on one partial area of its periphery, wherein said partial area corresponds to at least approximately one third of the cross section periphery of reinforcing steel.

2. Reinforcing steel according to claim 1, wherein said reinforcing steel exhibits, at least on the bending or bending back areas, a cross section with two cross section axes of different size.

3. Reinforcing steel according to claim 1, wherein said bending and bending back areas of said reinforcing steel are completely free of ribbing or shaping.

4. Reinforcing steel according to claim 1, wherein said reinforcing steel exhibiting, at least on said bending or bending back areas, an oval cross section having a larger cross section axis and a smaller cross section axis, wherein said reinforcing steel includes ribbing where said larger cross section axis intersects the periphery of said reinforcing steel.

5. Reinforcing steel according to claim 2 wherein said reinforcing steel is a heat-treated steel and is made from a steel alloy which contains 0.12-0.22% by weight of carbon, 0.5-1.0% by weight of manganese, less than 0.05% by weight of phosphorus, less than 0.05% by weight of sulfur, less than 0.6% by weight of copper, less than 0.05% by weight of tin and less than 0.018% of nitrogen.

6. Reinforcing steel according to claim 1, wherein said reinforcing steel is a cold-formed steel and is made from a steel alloy which contains 0.06-0.20% by weight of carbon, 0.35-0.85% by weight of manganese, less than 0.6% by weight of copper and less than 0.5% by weight of silicon.

7. Reinforcing steel according to claim 1, wherein said reinforcing steel is a microalloyed steel and is made from a steel alloy which contains less than 0.24% by weight of carbon, less than 1.5% by weight of manganese, and less than 0.12% by weight of vanadium.

8. Reinforcing steel according to claim 1, wherein said ribbing or shaping, includes ribs, rings, or sleeves, which are fastened to said reinforcing steel.

9. Reinforcing steel according to claim 1, wherein said ribbing or shaping is produced when said reinforcing steel is so deformed by upsetting that heads or projections projecting over the peripheral surface of reinforcing steel are produced.

10. A reinforcing connection used for a concrete structural element, produced by use of a reinforcing steel according to claim 1, comprising reinforcing bars formed from lengths of said reinforcing steel, said reinforcing bars including anchoring areas projecting over an outside surface of a holding element which are to be embedded in the concrete structural element as well as placed inside said holding element, said reinforcing bars also including form connecting parts to be bent out for connection to a concrete structural element to be connected later, the connecting parts in each case are connected by a transition area to said anchoring area, and said transition areas are on said area of reinforcing steel provided for a bending and subsequent bending back.