— Trade journals emphasized how practical and durable it was as a building material, its decorative potential, how sanitary it was (no vermin, easy to clean), how it would save the forests of central Mexico, and how, with reinforcement, it …

Normally 1m3 of RCC concrete slab requires an average of 80 kg of steel, a beam requires 120 kg of steel, a column requires 160 kg of steel and a footing requires 40 kg of steel. The thumb rule for steel in reinforced concrete construction is between 100 and 120 kg/m3 of the calculated wet volume of concrete.

This is a free online tool by EverydayCalculation.com to calculate material consumption for a concrete structure i.e., quantity of cement, sand, stone gravel required in different concrete ratios.

There are different methods for estimating the quantities of reinforcement; three methods of varying accuracy are: Method-1 : Reinforcement Estimation (Thumb Rule Method) This simplest method is based on the type of structure and the volume of the reinforced concrete elements. Average values for typical concrete frames:

 — Reinforced concrete, concrete in which steel is embedded in such a manner that the two materials act together in resisting forces. The reinforcing steel—rods, bars, or mesh—absorbs the tensile, shear, and sometimes the …

The weight of the reinforcement (rebar) required per cubic meter of concrete is approximately 140 lb/yd^3 for residential buildings, approximately 150 lb/yd^3 for institutional buildings, approximately 170 lb/yd^3 for commercial buildings and approximately 220 lb/yd^3 for industrial buildings.

This free concrete calculator estimates the amount of concrete necessary for a project and can account for different shapes and quantities.

Average quantity of reinforcement steel per m3 in concrete. Source: Reinforcement Estimates. List of typical steel amounts used in different kind of structures and elements (please note that these are average values, in reality, there is variance). All the quantities are shown per m3 of concrete.

About this chapter: Chapter 19 provides minimum accepted practices for the design and construction of buildings and structural components using concrete—both plain and reinforced.

The weight of the reinforcement (rebar) required per cubic meter of concrete is approximately 85 kg/m3 for residential buildings, approximately 90 kg/m3 for institutional buildings, approximately 100 kg/m3 for commercial buildings and approximately 130 kg/m3 for industrial buildings.