/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1446964
concrete being wet is not what causes spalling and cracking from the expansion of rebar. your service life estimates are absurd and obviously pulled out of your ass. there are 100+ year old sky scrapers built with rebar and concrete that are in perfectly good condition and will remain to be so for another 100+ years. you quite literally don't know what you are talking about.

>>1155827
if you think you know better than an engineering textbook. go right ahead. pic related has all the math you need to calculate the load bearing properties of a composite wall like that.

this is why we send people to school and not just rely on their "experience"