Crossword clues for ferroconcrete
Wiktionary
n. A building material made from Portland cement concrete with a matrix of steel bars or wires (rebars) to increase its tensile strength.
WordNet
n. concrete with metal and/or mesh added to provide extra support against stresses [syn: reinforced concrete]
Usage examples of "ferroconcrete".
From 1920-1937, a series of enormous underwater structures, a steel and ferroconcrete grid, was inserted into many miles of the strait, often in conjunction with elaborate surface structures amounting to a minor city suspended over the water.
The stained and flame-singed ferroconcrete walls were festooned with the tools of his trade.
This made for a supremely responsive machine that held him in good stead as he zigzagged his way around terrified people and octagonal ferroconcrete columns set in a double line down the length of the mall.
For an instant, he thought he was not going to make it, that he was going to hurtle headfirst into the ferroconcrete wall of the gym.
A dock of ferroconcrete extended out from the shore, at the end of which was moored a motor yacht, twenty-five meters if it was a centimeter.
Walls, floor, and ramp looked to be made from a kind of ferroconcrete, but colored a kind of faint beige rather than the conventional gray.
Nuke, the government of the day, a government that had ruled the whole land, north to south, west to east, had been rumored to have squirreled away stuff in deep-cast ferroconcrete bunkers.
The heavily modified Ares Roadmaster with the sat dish on top, parked in a shallow gulch, an empty lot, between ferroconcrete huts.
Soon the elevated bypass loomed overhead, supported by thick ferroconcrete piers.
The whole complex had been girdled with five- to fifteen-meter thick ferroconcrete, and the tower clad with the armor of several scrapped battleships.
Wars between the two countries had left their legacy of forts, the more recent sunken deep in the rock and covered in ferroconcrete and steel.
Standard upscale apartment manshon, tan ferroconcrete, new and spiffy-looking.
Now that society is all ferroconcrete and stainless steel there are fewer gaps between the joints, and it takes a smart rat to find them.
But there ahead, crossing the ferroconcrete artificial grass, were two upright and brisk figures, unbent by any despair.
Now that society is all ferroconcrete and stainless steel there are fewer gaps between the joints.