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As a state-examined engineer for building construction and civil engineering, I have been employed as site manager since February 2007 by the engineering consulting firm TS- Ingenieurgesellschaft, on...

Most of the building projects using textile and/or carbon reinforced concrete, which have already been realized, are based on approvals on case-by-case basis. Apart from the approvals on case-by-case...

An insufficient fire resistance of the composite material has so far inhibited a broad application of carbon-reinforced concrete. The reinforcement elements available at present are composite...

In Germany, around 50 % of all communal traffic areas are paved with concrete blocks or slabs. These pavements are also of great significance in the private sphere, in garden design and landscaping...

An element wall should give a monolithic impression when in use. There is to be a firm bond between the shells and the filling concrete. The bond achieved has an influence mainly on: the load-bearing...

As a result of the rapid population growth, the related increase in urbanization and therefore an ever more clearly evident shortage of land, the construction of tunnels in concrete design will...

Ultra-high-performance fiber-reinforced concrete (UHPFRC) is a cementitious high-perfor­mance material which, through an optimized grain structure and added steel fibers, achieves a compressive...

Partial area loading with biaxial or triaxial load propagation occurs, for example, at bearings, anchors, precast element joints and various contact surfaces of concrete structures. The high contact...

The “Guideline on the Certification of Conformity of Welded Lattice Girders as Rigid Reinforcement” (official German title of the December 2017 draft: Richtlinie für die Übereinstimmungsbestätigung...

In the past decades, corrosion-induced damage has repeatedly led to severe component failure in prestressed concrete structures. This is typically caused by inadequate design or poor workmanship,...