Nomenclature

[jar546]

What do you call these loose rebar placed around columns in your area?

 

[TheCommish]

Scrap, if tied in place column details

 

[steveray]

Scrap, if tied in place column details

I was going to say drops.....

 

[Sifu]

Hairpins?, if that was intended.

 

[Paul Sweet]

I don't know what they are called,but I think they are to discourage cracking around the column.

 

[ICE]

Diaginals.

 

[RLGA]

There is no real name, but you can call it "corner reinforcement."

This is to prevent re-entrant corner cracking. They are used when contraction joints are not provided at the corners. Here's the PowerPoint slide from my Building Construction Technology course I used to teach:

 

[Sifu]

There is no real name, but you can call it "corner reinforcement."

This is to prevent re-entrant corner cracking. They are used when contraction joints are not provided at the corners. Here's the PowerPoint slide from my Building Construction Technology course I used to teach:
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IF that was the intent, most plans I have seen have called them hairpins or as you say, just corner reinforcement, usually seen on PT slabs and at columns, but same principal I imagine.

 

[jar546]

most plans I have seen have called them hairpins or as you say

My answer is the same. In PA, they were called 'hairpins'

 

[steveray]

My answer is the same. In PA, they were called 'hairpins'

We call the thrust rebar at a PEMB "column" base hairpins but never heard it for the corner bars...