rebar shop drawing lengths

huangyhg

rebar shop drawing lengths
i have a quick one (yes i am new to the job). i am reviewing some shop drawings for rebar and the bending detail schedule had dimensions (which are probably some standard i dont know about) that i dont understand. it has lengths like "1-111" and "0-08".
teach me sumtin!
somewhere on the drawing there should be an explanation of what that means.  this is also a good question for your supervisor.
we don't feel it's our responsibility to check length of rebar in the schedules.  bar size, spacing, splice length, but not length of bars.
i usually do a "sanity check" to make sure the length of bar is at least in the right ballpark.  for dowels or the like, i do typically check all of the lengths.  it doesn't matter what they have called out for lap length if the length of bar that they are providing isn't sufficient.
hmmm, i dont see anything on the drawing that explains the dimensions. i also checked the crsi site but no info and my supervisior is out if the office for the day and besides a couple draftsmen i am the only person here.
i'm not checking the lengths per se, i'm just trying to figure out what they are doing in a particular area to be sure it is what we had in mind.
i've run into this in the past, and managed to decipher them, but that's been a while, too.  and no, there was not a key on the drawings.
check if that first one could be 1'-11-1/8" or something of the sort- the final fraction could be eights or sixteenths or whatever, i don't recall.  and the 0-08 would be 0'-8".
it's not unreasonable to call the folks up that did it and ask them what that means.
ya, i was think i would just shhot them a quick call.
jstephen has the idea.  you can deduce what the last digit might mean.  16ths are out because it is only one digit, and if you see digits greater than 4, then it is probably 8ths.
all of the shop drawings we have ever produced have been with that nomenclature and the last number was 8ths.
the last number is probably the number of 1/4's of an inch.  the other three are feet and inches.
don't assume anything - call the detailer.  it's his drawing and standard.  let him explain it to you.
mike mccann
mmc engineering
i'm not a structural, but it seems a bit of overkill to dimension rebar to the 1/8 inch...  nearest 1/4 or even 1/2 inch would generally be sufficient imho