Chapter:

Introduction-to-Concrete-and-Concrete-Materials

Compare Concrete and Steel as a structural materials.

  1. Concrete Structures are found more safer than steel structures because Concrete Structures can resist high temperatures and offer excellent resistant to explosion.
  2. Concrete is relatively less expensive and easily available than that of steel.
  3. Working with concrete is almost twice as fast as that of with steel.
  4. Concrete Structures are more resistant to Corrosive action than Steel Structures.
  5. Steel Superstructures are easy to recycle than Concrete Structures.
  6. Concrete Structures produces almost four times solid waste as that of Steel Structures.
  7. Concrete Structures produces more toxic waste.
  8. Concrete Structures consumes almost six times as much natural resources than that of Steel.
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