The advantages of precast concrete elements known from industrial construction can also be successfully used in high-rise buildings. Completed projects such as the “Tanzende Türme” in Hamburg or the...
Installing conventional reinforcement is expensive and time-consuming. This process step is eliminated by using steel fiber reinforced concrete. However, in general, fibers are not used as the only...
Steel fiber reinforced concretes have an enormous potential due to the elimination of labor-intensive and time-consuming reinforcement works. In addition to this, steel fiber reinforced concretes...
Pre-applied bonded membranes are used as additional or precautionary waterproofing measures for waterproof concrete structures. They can be used especially for geometrically complex, constrained...
The existing knowledge of the bond behavior of reinforced concrete cannot be transferred “as is” to textile-reinforced structures. The bond between textile reinforcement and concrete is dependent on...
Making construction with concrete more resource-efficient and climate-friendly is one of the most important goals in civil engineering. Within the DFG-funded priority program 1542 “Concrete light”,...
On July 14/15, 2021, a flood event caused huge damages in the Ahrweiler district in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is above all a tragedy that 134 lives were lost. The magnitude of the...
Re-analyses of existing reinforced-concrete buildings or structures often reveal shear resistance deficits. This is primarily due to higher loads, for instance owing to heavy-truck traffic or...
In 2020, a 200-m bridge, constructed in 1934 over the Rhine River near the city of Albbruck in Germany, was rehabilitated with carbon concrete. In the longitudinal direction of the pedestrian and...
A lot of bridges feature age-related damages. However, it is not always possible to detect such damages in inspections of the external building structure. Internal damages such as the fracture of...
