With this knowledge, engineers, constructors, material suppliers, and code officials are developing new analytical and physical tools to improve the way structures perform. Morley Builders is helping to expand this body of expertise, in the project planning phases and at job sites. High-rise structures can have as many as fifty reinforcing bars entering a given joint, each one competing for space.
Terminators are circular steel plates, much like a large washers, welded to the ends of the bars.
When beam bars terminate at joints, the terminators replace the hooks. The thickness and diameter of the Terminator varies with the size of the rebar, but all take far less space than hooks providing comparable anchorage. Aided by the manufacturer, Erico Inc. , and by researcher Prof. John Wallace , now at UCLA, Morley is making what is thought to be the first use of these devices in the City of Los Angeles, at the Marina Pointe condominium project in Marina Del Rey. The structural engineer is Matti J. Prabhu . This new pile technology produces strengths similar to conventional piles that are approximately three times larger.