Opportunities and obstacles for industrial application

WiTraBau: New materials developments for concrete pipes

The formulation of highly resistant nanotechnologically optimized fine mortars and concretes (UHSC) for protecting the surfaces of structures made of normal-strength concrete, and the development of concrete products, were the special focus of a research program of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF): Cold Hardening Ceramics. This program was the topic of a recycling strategy within the scope of the scientific support measure Knowledge Transfer in Building Construction (WiTraBau, see paper of Reichling and Schäffel in the Congress Proceedings). In the project, the...

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Issue 02/2017 WiTraBau: Newly developed materials for high-performance concrete

Research projects transferred to practice

Since December 2014, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has been funding the “WiTraBau – Wissenstransfer im Bauwesen” (Knowledge Transfer in the Construction Industry) project...

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Issue 10/2010 Innovative Product Development and Sustainability

Concrete Products in the Course of Time

Some of the products listed above are now no longer or only rarely manufactured. Ongoing innovation by manufacturers, however, has meant development of many new products – paving blocks, for example....

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Issue 02/2016 From ideas to standardized application

New material developments in construction –

Introduction Seven partners from research, industry and standardization (see Fig. 1) have joined forces to accelerate the transfer of innovative materials from the laboratory scale to practice. The...

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Issue 11/2013 Rinninger/FBS

New sewer construction with UHPC pipes in FBS quality

In the course of reconstructing the entire underground infrastructure at the premises of the future base of the Sonthofen NBC Defense and Self-Protection School, the Kempten State Building Authority...

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Issue 04/2014 WKB Systems

More than 300,000 m³ autoclaved aerated concrete ­manufactured

The AAC plant of state combine stenovykh materialov Kubani  (OOO KSMK) manufactured in 2013 more than 300,000 m³ of autoclaved aerated concrete, achieving in this way a higher production output than...

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