In the construction industry, one of the primary objectives of developing products and designing manufacturing processes is to integrate the aspect of sustainability. In doing so, material...
The requirements regarding the energy efficiency of buildings are a well-known and inevitable fact to which the construction industry responds, too. Lightweight concrete blocks are filled with...
Optimized processes and latest technologies are the characteristics of the new Towermix models made by SBM Mineral Processing. The milestone set in the field of stationary concrete mixing plants...
From a constructional point of view, self-compacting concrete (SCC) is an extraordinarily interesting material. The use of SCC provides an interesting perspective in many fields of construction, in...
The structural design of flat slab systems is usually governed by the punching shear resistance of the slab. To achieve a sufficient punching shear resistance at reasonable slab thickness, shear...
The present design rules for the shear capacity of reinforced concrete (RC) members without shear reinforcement in Eurocode 2 were calibrated based on a database containing the experimental results of...