Steel Mesh Reinforcement

The most common applications for steel fibers are runways, bridge decks, streets/highways, and industrial floors. Glass fibers generally add the most tensile strength of all the fibers. Common sense may not say that glass is stronger than steel, but the glass used is not everyday glass; the glass has fewer microscopic imperfections than steel, giving it greater strength. Synthetic, or man-made, fibers can be any one of acrylic, aramid, carbon, nylon, polyester, polyethylene, and polypropylene. The most widely used are polypropylene fibers. Natural fibers are most commonly wood cellulose, but coconut, bamboo, jute, elephant grass, and vegetable fibers can also be used. Wood cellulose fibers have comparable strengths to some synthetic, glass, and steel fibers, but the other natural fibers are somewhat lacking in strength

Four different varieties of concrete steel mesh reinforcing fibers