oncrete and reinforced concrete are used as building materials in every country. In many, including the United States and Canada, reinforced concrete is a dominant structural material in engineered construction. The universal nature of reinforced concrete construction stems from the wide availability of reinforcing bars and the constituents of concrete, gravel, sand, and cement, the relatively simple skills required in concrete construction, and the economy of reinforced concrete compared to other forms of construction. Concrete and reinforced concrete are used in bridges, buildings of all sorts underground structures, water tanks, television towers, offshore oil exploration and production structures, dams, and even in ships.
在每一個國家，混凝土及鋼筋混凝土都被用來作為建筑材料。很多地區(qū)，包括美國和加拿大，鋼筋混凝土在工程建設(shè)中是主要的結(jié)構(gòu)材料。鋼筋混凝土建筑的普遍性源于鋼筋的廣泛供應(yīng)和混凝土的組成成分，礫石，沙子，水泥等，混凝土施工所需的技能相對簡單，與其他形式的建設(shè)相比，鋼筋混凝土更加經(jīng)濟(jì)。混凝土及鋼筋混凝土用于橋梁、各種地下結(jié)構(gòu)建筑、水池、電視塔、海洋石油勘探建筑、工業(yè)建筑、大壩，甚至用于造船業(yè)。