Prospects in concrete technology
With a world-wide annual production of more than 10 billion m³ and the respective surfaces, concrete has been the most frequently used building material all over the world for more than a century. This will also be true in future due to the fact that the constituents of concrete are available almost everywhere and because of its synergistic behavior in combination with reinforcing steel and its excellent price-performance ratio. Concrete does not only contribute to meet the highest structural requirements in terms of load-bearing capacity and durability, but concrete innovations even more...