Economic development urges design engineers to search for alternative structural materials enabling the fast erection of structures without incurring high investment costs and, afterwards, high running costs. Reinforcement bars are indispensable elements to most civil engineering structures. The article presents information concerned with composite rebars, i.e. their mechanical and physical properties, production technologies and application areas as well as compares composite rebars with their steel equivalents.

doi: 10.17729/ebis.2019.4/1