Reinforced Overlays

Placing time is reduced and over steeling avoided when you use Welded Wire Reinforcement in your paving project. Ivy Steel & Wire has manufacturing capabilities to produce flat sheets of mesh up to 13 feet wide and 40 feet long in either plain or deformed WWR. This allows designers to specify the horizontal and vertical spacing of the wires along with the size of the wires, to produce a precise reinforcing plan for reinforced pavement for City Streets, State and Federal Highways, Airport Runways and Parking Lots.

Increases in traffic loads and volume can put strains on concrete pavements that were not designed to carry these larger loads when designed originally. A great deal of money and time can be saved and traffic disruption kept to a minimum by using Reinforced Concrete Overlays, with Welded Wire Reinforcement.

The reinforcement is especially important in the concrete overlay. The Welded Wire Reinforcement is designed to inhibit reflection cracking in the resurfacing above the intermediate joints or cracks in the existing pavement.

The WWR holds the fractured faces together when vertical cracks form and assure that aggregate interlock will transfer the loads from one side of the crack to the other. Infiltration through the tightly closed cracks will also be minimized.