Bridge construction is a reasonable field of application for carbon-reinforced concrete. The corrosion-resistant reinforcement requires a small concrete cover. Moreover, a protective layer can be...
The robust design of supporting structures is the basis for every structural design. Damages caused by unplanned loads must be limited to a reasonable extent in order to prevent abrupt failure or...
Lightweight concrete with open structure and lightweight aggregate is increasingly used for the construction of façades due to its excellent thermal insulation properties. Pumice, which occurs...
Construction and demolition waste, at 89 million tons, is the dominant type of waste in Germany in terms of quantity. These wastes are mainly recycled in earthworks and road construction. A major part...
The abandonment of fossil fuels for energy generation results in serious changes in the secondary raw materials economy. In concrete production, this applies most of all to coal flyash, which is used...
Concrete is a multipurpose construction material which can be tailored to have numerous different properties. In most cases, it is optimized with respect to the hardened concrete properties, that is,...
The “steel fiber-reinforced concrete” composite material finds more and more fields of application and is increasingly used for the production of precast concrete elements. For this reason, the...
Existing structural frameworks need to be recalculated in accordance with currently applicable standards owing to building conversion and subsequent changes in load levels. Concrete compressive...
In the past ten years, no stone was left standing in German vacation law; this was ensured collaboratively by CJEU and BAG (the German Federal Labor Court). Certainties, having been true for decades,...
This presentation addresses ordinary interested people who are looking for a simple, comprehensible and successful introduction into the fascinating topic of psycho-physiognomy (PP). Physiognomy...
