reinforced concrete

noun

concrete containing steel bars, strands, mesh, etc., to absorb tensile and shearing stresses.

reinforced concrete

concrete with steel bars, mesh, etc, embedded in it to enable it to withstand tensile and shear stresses

First recorded in 1900–05

In the fields: numerous small forts of reinforced concrete, which commanded all the roads into Lille.

They are about 10 feet high and are built of reinforced concrete, with huge cast-iron blocks upon their upstream faces.

These were formed of walls of reinforced concrete five feet thick, with loopholes through which machine-guns could fire.

Others again have iron bars run through the mass--reinforced concrete.

These viaducts consist of 50-foot reinforced concrete arch spans and piers, with here and there a 60-foot span.

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