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To: NFHale

I’ll add that the concrete is porous so that moisture can penetrate. When the moisture gets to the rebar it rusts. When steel rusts it expands. This has the effect of popping off big chips of concrete in a process called “spalling”. The failure is not in the concrete but in the rebar.


33 posted on 07/12/2026 9:08:55 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath
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To: Locomotive Breath

That makes a ton of sense… That’s why we build a building now and it’s falling apart in five years


62 posted on 07/12/2026 1:43:10 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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