CABR Mechanical Splicing Technology for Rebar

CABR TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.

BEIJING, CHINA
2014
 CONTENT
• 1. About CABR-Jianshuo Branch
• 2. Why to choose mechanical splicing technology for rebar?
• 3. CABR Mechanical Splicing Technology for Rebar
• 4. Types and Application of Parallel Thread Rebar Splice
• 5. Performance and test requirements according to selected
specifications
• 6. International communication and co-operation
1. About CABR-Jianshuo Branch
The company you can be trusted, the company you can work with.

• China Academy of Building Research = CABR

• Government Company (1/125)
• Institute Company (61 professors, 65 senior engineers. Over
90% staffs owned bachelor's degrees including 19 doctors and
113 masters)
• Rebar Mechanical splice + anchorage
• The only government company and also institute company
engaged in rebar mechanical splice and anchorage.
• Production Capacity = 5 millions Couplers + 2 millions Bar
End Anchor Plate + above 200 sets of equipments.
24 Years in Rebar Splice Field
-----Research on rebar mechanical splice began in 1987

1991~now
Taper Thread Splice

1987~now
Cold Forged Sleeve Splice

1999~now 2001~now
Parallel Thread Splice Parallel Thread Splice
Rolling System Upsetting System
Our Market till Now (July, 2010)
Russia, Qatar ,Saudi Arabia, Iran, India ,Vietnam, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia etc.
 Chief Editor of National Technical Specifications of
Rebar Mechanical Splice

Technical Specifications for Mechanical Splicing of Steel Reinforcing bars JGJ 107-2010
Technical Specifications for Compressed Sleeve Splicing of Ribbed Rebar JGJ 108-96
Parallel Thread Rebar Splice With Cold Upsetting End JG/T3057-1999
Parallel Thread Rebar Splice With Rolled Thread End JG163-2004
Technical Specifications for Taper Thread Rebar Splice JGJ109-96
 R&D

Beam test with mechanical spliced rebar

Tension and Deformation Test
Repeated tension and compression test

We have our own test lab and can do the tests with
rebar samples from customers according to different
bar splicing standards before the order.
Honors and Certificates

Accreditation Certificate for High-Tech

Enterprise
Certification of ISO 9001-2008 Quality
Management System
Honors and Certificates
Technical unit of “Rebar Splicing” authorized
by Ministry of Construction, P.R. China

Technical unit of “ Parallel Thread Rebar Splice with

Upsetting End” authorized by Ministry of Science and
Technology, P.R. China
Certifications of Bar Splice Technology in Russia

•Certification of Bar
Splicing Technology in
Russia

•Certification of Bar
Splicing Technology in
Moscow

•Certification for Usage of

Bar Splicing Technology
in Moscow
Gain China’s first rebar splice certificate of conformity
approved by construction and engineering products
authentication
CABR mechanical splice for rebars have been approved by the
most demanding international regulators.

• The Concrete Institute of Russia

• SGS
• Arab Center
• Al Futtaim Bodycote
• The US Council of International Quality Authentication
• CABR Certification center
• French Scientific and Technical Centre for Building
2. Why to choose mechanical splicing technology for rebar?

• No staggering of spliced bars required.

• Practical alternative to lap splicing.
• Solves bar congestion problems.
• Shortens construction cycle time.
• Reduces steel wastage.
3. CABR Mechanical Splicing Technology for Rebar

Sys A: Parallel Thread Rebar Splice with Upset End

Sys B: Parallel Thread Rebar Splice with Rolled Thread End

Sys C: Cold Forged Sleeve Splice for Ribbed Rebar

Sys D: Rebar Coupler for Stainless Rebar

100% Bar Break Performance
CABR Bar Splice is designed for the connection of concrete reinforcing bars from Φ14~Φ50.
Product Features
• Designed and manufactured in compliance with ACI318, JGJ107, UBC
1997, BS8110, NF35-20-1, DIN1045, ISO/WD 15835 (Draft).
• Full-Tension splice, bar break under tensile tests.
• Easy to operate and maintain, High production efficiency and fast
installation, no need for skilled technicians.
• Several types of splices, which could be suitable for rebar splicing when
the rebar cage or the bending rebar is used.
• The splices could be produced in advance without influencing the
construction period.
• Inexpensive to purchase, maintain and repair.
• Couplers and threaded bars are protected by plastic cover.
• Full traceability of material origin and production batch.
• Manufactured under strict quality assurance plan ISO 9001.
Sys A: Parallel Thread Rebar Splice with Upset End
Most popular technology for overseas market

Bar splice with upset end

 Sys A: Parallel Thread Rebar Splice with Upset End
• Full-tension splice, 100% bar break under tensile tests
 Four steps manufacturing process Equipments or Tools

(1) Cutting

(2) Upsetting

(3) Threading

(4) Splicing
Production and Installation
of Parallel Thread Rebar Splice with Upset End
Construction Site of Parallel Thread Splice with Upset End
Layout of Equipments on Site

• Layout for one set of equipment

support frame rebar

upset machine

2-3m

thread machine
Layout of Equipments on Site

• Layout for two sets of equipments

support frame rebar
upset machine

2-3m

thread machine
Applications of rebar splice with upset end

• With the sustaining support from customers, CABR

rebar splice with upset end products have been wildly
applied in the projects such as skyscraper, bridge,
subway, hydropower station, television tower,
gymnasium, nuclear power plants and so on, achieve
excellent comments from customers.
 Tianwan Nucleus Power Plant

The largest project cooperate between China and Russia government;

Designed by China and Russia together;
Control of nucleus and quality is extraordinarily strict.
 Tianwan Nucleus Power Plant

It solves the problems of splicing 40mm rebar with 36mm ring-shape
rebar at the containment.
200,000 couplers
HRB400 Steel Rebar
d=36-40mm
 Runyang Yangtse River Bridge

Connect 100 tons rebar cage, grade 1 rebar splice.

Hangzhou Harbor Bridge
36km, Longest harbor bridge in the world
 Sutong Yantze River Bridge
Longest main span: 1088m；Highest Bridge Tower: 306m；
Longest bevel cable: 580m；Largest Foundation: 2.5 times of football playground.
300,000 couplers are used.
River-Crossing Tunnel of the Outer Ring Road in Shanghai City
Bidirectional car road, under-water road, traffic tunnel cutting surface 43×9.3m.
No.1 in Asia, No. 3 in World . The project whole length is 2880m.
All rebar splicing in this project used CABR parallel rebar Splice with upset end. Total
rebar splice about are 80,000.
International University Student Games Village
in Beijing, China

International Mansion (60 story high) in

Chongqing City, China
Surabaya-Madura Bridge, Indonesia
 Al Attar Tower

Used in projects of Dubai

92400 Couplers are used

48stories 76stories Horizon Tower

Used in Dubai projects
Other recent oversea projects
Construction Consumption Remark
NO. Name of Project Location
Period of Couplers
01 DIAMOND ISLAND Vietnam 20 months 200,000
02 Nam A Bank Office Building Project Vietnam 405 days 100,000
03 H18-Riverpark Residence Project Vietnam 22 months 250,000
04 Co Office Tower Vietnam 12 months 50,000
05 Hanoi Plaza Hotel Vietnam 24 months 150,000
06 National Electricity Company Office Vietnam 16 months 100,000
07 Vinamilk Tower Vietnam 18 months 80,000
08 Al Duja Tower UAE Year 2010 75,000
09 Al Hikma Tower UAE Year 2010 150,000
10 City of Lights UAE Year 2010 200,000
Other recent oversea projects
Construction Consumption Remark
NO. Name of Project Location
Period of Couplers
11 Bando U-Bora Tower UAE Year2010 52 levels

12 Silk City Vietnam Year 2010 250,000

13 Zallaq Resort Hotel Bahrain Year2009 128,000
14 Penang second bridge Malaysia Year2009 200,000
15 Al Attar Tower UAE Year2008 53,000
16 La Riviera Tower UAE Year2008 158,000 37 levels
17 Skycourts Residences UAE Year2008 104,000
18 Stockmann Nevsky Centre RUSSIA Year2008 60,000
Saudi
19 Bisha bridge Year2008
Arabia
20 Al Attar One Residential Building UAE Year2007 77 levels
Other recent oversea projects
Construction Consumption Remark
NO. Name of Project Location
Period of Couplers
21 Al Attar Two Residential Building UAE Year2007 44 levels

22 Al Barsha Hotel Apartment UAE Year2007 17 levels

Jumeirah Lake Towers T2-F2 43 levels
23 UAE Year2007
Nakheel Area
24 Cornical Tower UAE Year2007 60 levels

25 Russia Federal Mansion RUSSIA Year2007 120,000

INDONE
26 Surabaya-Madura Bridge Year2007 120,000
SIA
27 Horizontal Tower UAE Year2006 98,000 44 levels

28 Bay Gate Office Building UAE Year2006 48 levels

Emirates Airline Accommodation 35 levels
29 UAE Year2006
Building
30 AAM Tower UAE Year 2005 28,300 49 levels
Feedback from customers for rebar splice with upset end

YUYUAN HOTEL SUTONG BRIDGE TIANWAN NUCLEAR FUNING HIGHWAYS

STATION
Sys B: Parallel Thread Rebar Splice with Rolled Thread End
Most popular technology in China

Why Rolling system B can achieve bar break?

Machines of Rolling SYS B

Directly Rolling Machine

Rolling after Stripping Rib Machine
Subway Project in Shanghai City
XILUODU hydropower station

2,000,000 couplers are used!

Huanglong Sports Centre in Zhejiang Province
 FULI city in Beijing

More than 1 million m2 CBD high-quality living area

200,000 CABR parallel thread rebar splices with rolled thread end
Russia Federal Mansion in Moscow
-Highest Building in Euro
-Highest concrete building in the world
-Tower A: 354m
-Total: 98 Floors

Stockmann Nevsky Centre, Russia

Sys C: Cold Forged Sleeve Splice for Ribbed Rebar
Only used for some special situation now in China
Bar Break

Equipment of Forging
Sys C: Cold Forged Sleeve Splice for Ribbed Rebar

Technology of sleeve splice for ribbed rebar

New Terminal Building of International Capital
Airport in Beijing, China
 HUMEN Bridge

CCTV Tower
4. Types and Application
of Parallel Thread Rebar Splice
 Standard Splice
• Applied in area where rebar can be rotated
freely.
• Standard splice is the most general applied
type. It is composed by two right-hand
thread sectors with the same diameter and
a coupler with inside right-hand thread.
The thread sector is the standard thread
sector whose effective thread length is not
less than half coupler length. The splicing
coupler is the standard splice. The
application condition is that one of two
rebar is not restricted in rolling and axially
moving, so it is possible to construct with
coupler and rebar. In structure, it is usually
used in the parts such as slab, beam, wall,
column and so on.
Standard Splice

screw with wrench

Left rebar with coupler

Splice with Lengthened Thread End-
Position Splices
• When both rebars can not be rotated or
would be a burden to rotate, for
example because of the sizes or length,
the CABR position splices simply
extends the thread onto the ribs of
rebars, thereby enabling the coupler to
be fully screwed onto it. It is then
unscrewed from one bar and back onto
the second rebar to accomplish the
connection. The coupler will be the
same as standard splice and it is
composed by two right-hand thread end
with the same diameter and a coupler
with inside right-hand thread.
 Splice with One Slope End

• Applied in Rebar cage

joint area
Application of CABR Coupler For Rebar Cage

• The construction technology for rebar

cages in piles is a very important factor
which affects the schedule of projects.
There are a lot of disadvantages such as
silt deposited by a current of water,
collapse of artesian well and the quality
for bar splice is unstable and difficult to
control etc. for traditional welding
splicing technology. So to apply mechanical splicing technology is the
choice to deal with these problems.
Rebar Splice for Rebar Cage

• Splice with Lengthened Thread End + Splice with One Slope End

Stander thread end Lengthened thread end

Rotate Coupler
Rotate Back to completely into the
left thread end right thread end
screw
with
wrench
Rebar Splice for Rebar Cage
Step 1: Prefabricating the rebar cage and Connecting rebar cages on ground

Prefibricated rebar Cage on ground

Rebar Splice for Rebar Cage
Step 2: Make the marks and Releasing the connection s

Rotate Coupler completely into the right thread end, release the rebar cage
 Rebar Splice for Rebar Cage

Step 3: Lifting the rebar cage Lifting the

into the pile hole second cage

Step 4: Lifting another rebar

cage for connecting

Insert the Put the first

Support cage down
floor
 Rebar Splice for Rebar Cage

Step 5: Rotating the coupler

back to another to connecting Rotate the couplers back, the
the rebar cages connection of rebar cage is
completed
Splice with Different Rebar Diameters
- Transition Coupler
• Applied in connecting different rebar diameters.
• Splice with different rebar diameters is applied
in splicing different kinds of rebar. It is
composed by two right-hand thread sectors with
the different diameters and a coupler with
inside right-hand thread but the two side
threads are different specifications. The
effective thread length of splice is the
corresponding specification thread length of
coupler. In generally the splice is standard
splice and coupler is for different rebar
diameters. The application condition is that at
least one is not restricted in rolling and axially
moving. In structure, it is usually used as splice
for different rebar diameters.
 Splice with Different Bar Dia.

Screw Rotate rebar

with into right
wrench thread end

Rotate coupler into

left thread end
 Splice with Left & Right Hand Thread
• Applied in area where rebar is difficult to rotate
but can rotate in axes direction.
• Splice with left/right hand thread is generally
used to splice two rebar that can not be rotated.
It splices two rebar of the same diameter
specification. One of them has the right hand
thread and the other has the left one. The coupler
also has one right thread and one left thread on
the two sides. The effective thread length of
splice should less than half length of the coupler.
One splice is standard splice and the other one is
opposite splice, and splice coupler is for splicing
with left/right hand thread. The application
condition is that two rebar is restricted in rolling,
but at least one is not restricted in axially
moving. In structure, it is usually used in the
parts such as slab, beam, wall, column and so on.
Splice with Left & Right Hand Thread
Coupler with Left and
Right Hand Thread

Left hand thread Right hand

thread

Rotate coupler, the rebars move

forward
5. Performance and test requirements according to
selected specifications

5.1 England
Requirements for:
Slip Low Cyclic
Specification
Strength Test Loading Fatigue
Requirement (Earthquake)
Procedure
Great Britain:
115% fy, spec 1×0.6fy 0.1mm - -
BS8110

Symbols:
fy, spec,ReH-specified (or nominal) yield strength;
fu, spec,Rm, spec-specified (or nominal) tensile strength;
Rm, act-actual tensile strength (real rupture strength) of rebar.
 5. Performance and test requirements according to
selected specifications
5.2 USA
Requirements for:

Specification Slip Low Cyclic

Strength Loading Fatigue
Test
Requirement (Earthquake)
Procedure
USA:
0.25mm…0.45m
CALTRANS ±173MPa,
95% fu, act 1×200MPa m, depending on 100×0.9 fy/0.05 fy
(California Test 10,000 cycles
rebar diameter
670, Sept 2004)
20×0.95 fy/0.5
UBC: fy(compression)+4×
USA: ICC-ES, 95% Rm, act/160% fy, spec 2ey/0.5 fy(comp.)
- - -
AC133 IBC: +4×5ey/0.5
100% fu, spec/125% fy, spec fy(comp.) +loading to
failure
USA: ACI318, Type 1: 125% fy
- - 100×0.9 fy/0.05 fy -
ACI349 Type 2: 100% Rm, spec
Symbols:
fy, spec,ReH-specified (or nominal) yield strength;
fu, spec,Rm, spec-specified (or nominal) tensile strength;
Rm, act-actual tensile strength (real rupture strength) of rebar.
 5. Performance and test requirements according to
selected specifications
5.3 Germany
Requirements for:

Specification Slip Low Cyclic

Strength Loading Fatigue
Test
Requirement (Earthquake)
Procedure
Germany:
DIBT: Basic
0.1mm…0.2mm,
requirements for 300/240MPa,
130% fy, spec 1×0.6fy depending on length -
testing of mech. 2*106 cycles
of coupler
Splices for reinf.
Steel, May 2007

Symbols:
fy, spec,ReH-specified (or nominal) yield strength;
fu, spec,Rm, spec-specified (or nominal) tensile strength;
Rm, act-actual tensile strength (real rupture strength) of rebar.
 5. Performance and test requirements according to
selected specifications
5.4 France
Requirements for:

Specification Slip
Low Cyclic Loading
Strength Fatigue
Test (Earthquake)
Requirement
Procedure
Moderate scale earthquake:
20×0.95 fy/0.5 fy(comp.)+ loading to
Stress
failure →residual elongation: ≤0.3mm
amplitude=80MP
France: Violent earthquake:
95% fu, act 3×0.6fy 0.1mm a,
NF35-020-1 4×2ey/0.5 fy(comp.) +4×5ey/0.5
Max Stress=0.6fy,
fy(comp.) +loading to failure
2*106 cycles
→residual elongation: ≤0.3mm and
0.6mm respectively
Symbols:
fy, spec,ReH-specified (or nominal) yield strength;
fu, spec,Rm, spec-specified (or nominal) tensile strength;
Rm, act-actual tensile strength (real rupture strength) of rebar.
 5. Performance and test requirements according to
selected specifications
5.5 ISO
Requirements for:

Specification Slip
Low Cyclic Loading
Strength Fatigue
Test (Earthquake)
Requirement
Procedure
Moderate scale earthquake:
20×0.95 fy/0.5 fy(comp.)+ loading to
failure →residual elongation: ≤0.3mm
ReH
Violent earthquake: 300/240MPa,
ISO 15835 spec*(Rm/Re 3×0.6fy 0.1mm
4×2ey/0.5 fy(comp.) +4×5ey/0.5 2*106 cycles
H)spec
fy(comp.) +loading to failure
→residual elongation: ≤0.3mm and
0.6mm respectively
Symbols:
fy, spec,ReH-specified (or nominal) yield strength;
fu, spec,Rm, spec-specified (or nominal) tensile strength;
Rm, act-actual tensile strength (real rupture strength) of rebar.
6. International communication and co-operation

In recently years, CABR develops the external

communication and co-operation. Techniques of rebar
mechanical splicing have been used in many important
projects around ten countries.
6. International communication and co-operation
 CONTACT US
• CABR Technology Co., Ltd.
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• Sales and Marketing Manager: Mr. Cory Koo