Carbon Concrete Composite C3

Transition into a new age?

With the so-called “High-Tech Strategy”, the Federal Government aims at assisting Germany to assume a leading role in resolving global challenges. As far as the construction industry is concerned, this primarily relates to ensuring the mobility in the field of infrastructure, the reliability of building structures and the reduction of energy and resource consumption in Germany. The initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) intends to combine the outstanding scientific, technologic and entrepreneurial competences that have been created in the eastern federal states...

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Issue 01/2017

Carbon concrete – from research to real life

Reinforced concrete is an excellent composite material. It is used for the construction of buildings, roads, bridges, tunnels, and many other structures. Conventional structural steel can corrode,...

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Issue 02/2016 Preliminary results for field application

Joint project: Carbon Concrete Composite

Reinforced concrete is a construction material suitable for a wide variety of uses and therefore indispensable in state-of-the-art construction projects. High-rise buildings, tunnels, or bridges...

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Issue 06/2022

Material-minimized carbon-reinforced concrete structures – Overview of research in CRC/TRR 280

In CRC/TRR 280, “Design strategies for material-minimized carbon-reinforced concrete structures”, scientists of TU Dresden, RWTH Aachen University and the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research...

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Issue 09/2024 CHT GROUP

Sustainable building with non-metallic reinforcement

The widely used reinforced-concrete construction method is extremely resource- and energy-intensive and produces significant CO2 emission. Non-metallic reinforcement enables construction of slender...

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Issue 06/2022

Investigating the effectiveness of carbon-reinforced concrete infills

Re-analyses of existing reinforced-concrete buildings or structures often reveal shear resistance deficits. This is primarily due to higher loads, for instance owing to heavy-truck traffic or...

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