In recent years, so-called textile concretes have been used as façade elements. Stitched textile fabrics – for the most part manufactured from alkali-resistant glass fibers, carbon fibers, or amid...
Concrete blocks are no longer just square, practical, and gray – we encounter them in a wide range of shapes, colors, and structures. In concrete plants they are fully automatically manufactured,...
Building Information Modeling has arrived in the construction industry – but there is a lack of professionals. For this reason, BIM training providers are experiencing a boom. Which criteria and...
The development of digital concrete printing processes for manufacture of structural concrete components directly at the construction site or in the precast plant is a critical step on the way to...
The use of thermally activated (calcined) clays as supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) in cement represents a promising optimization step for ordinary Portland cement in terms of environmental...
Chemical engineer Fulvio Canonico has been managing Wilhelm Dyckerhoff Institute for Building Materials Technology since early in 2017. The WDI is responsible for the entire research and development...
In respect of their material characteristics, lightweight concretes with bulk densities smaller than 2,000 kg/m3 can be subdivided into the structurally dense and porous categories. Production of...
Any floor slab whose shortening is obstructed by stiffening components, such as building cores or walls, will be subject to strain caused, for instance, by shrinkage. In this scenario, reinforced...
One of the main objectives in revising DIN 1053-1 was a more differentiated description of the compressive strength of masonry as a function of the different types of blocks used in order to be able...
According to the standards currently in effect, it is not possible to determine the structural capacity of non-reinforced infilling masonry walls made of lightweight concrete masonry taking into...
