The role of reinforcing mesh in the construction industry is mainly as follows:

Improve construction efficiency: the use of reinforcing steel mesh can reduce the time of reinforcing steel installation and speed up the construction progress of the project. Before laying the reinforcing steel mesh, only the welded reinforcing steel mesh is laid according to the requirements, and the pouring of concrete can be completed quickly without cutting, layering and tying2.

Enhance structural stability: reinforcing mesh plays the role of reinforcing steel to prevent ground cracks and depressions, which is commonly used in large-area concrete projects such as highways and factory workshops. Its mesh is rigid and flexible, with uniform and accurate spacing and high strength of welded joints, which can effectively enhance the shear and flexural strength of concrete, and improve the resistance of concrete to punching and bending26.

Guaranteed project quality: the reinforcing mesh is produced under strict quality control in the factory, where the mesh size, reinforcement specification and quality are strictly controlled. This avoids omissions, weak ties, tying errors and cutting corners that may occur with manually tied mesh, thus greatly improving the quality of the project8.

Saving steel consumption: the design strength of reinforcing mesh is usually higher than that of traditional steel, according to the principle of equal strength replacement, the use of reinforcing mesh can save more than 30% of the amount of steel used. And there is no need to further process the reinforcing mesh after it is delivered to the site, so there is no loss24.

Improvement of anti-seismic and anti-cracking performance: the longitudinal bars and transverse bars of welded steel mesh form a mesh structure, so it has good bonding and anchorage with concrete, and the load it bears can be uniformly spread and distributed, which obviously improves the anti-seismic and anti-cracking performance of the reinforced concrete structure. According to the actual test, road paving welded steel mesh than manually tied mesh, can reduce the occurrence of cracks by more than 75%!

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