Precast floor slab made of carbon-reinforced concrete

Since the 1930s, numerous prestressed thin-walled building elements, prestressed both with and without bond, have been used in construction worldwide. Examples range from buildings with simple slab...

Owing to the significant share of cement production, building with concrete generates about 8?% of global CO2 emissions while also contributing to the imminent worldwide depletion of sand and gravel...

Precast prestressed floors slabs from Echo-Elbe consist of a lower and upper concrete layer connected to each other via the webs. The prestressed strands and/or wires in sizes 5.7, 9.3 mm and 12.5...

Since 2012, Ginkgo Projektentwicklung GmbH based in Dresden, Germany, has specialized in the pretensioning of carbon textile strands and uses its patented, state-of-the-art processes for producing...

The German highway network includes over 39,000 bridges with a total length of almost 2,100 km. Most of these bridges were built from prestressed concrete in the period from 1965 to 1985 (Fig. 1)....