Advances in Construction Materials 2007

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Brief Review of the Scientific Work of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Hans W. Reinhardt....Pages 1-13
Towards a better visibility of outstanding research....Pages 15-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Actual tendencies in structural fastening technology....Pages 23-30
Constitutive Laws for Concrete and their Application with Numerical Methods....Pages 31-38
Innovations in concrete technology: Interaction between research, codes and applications....Pages 39-47
Ultra-high performance concrete for the roof of a research hot water storage....Pages 49-56
Numerical modelling of cam-pocket coupling systems for concrete lining....Pages 57-65
Uncertainty models for safety assessment of textile reinforced concrete structures....Pages 67-74
Structural design of a large foundation slab close to reality, stiffness oriented design method CTD....Pages 75-82
Steel castings in architecture and engineering....Pages 83-108
Load-bearing and deformation behaviour of concrete beams reinforced in combination of both steel bars and bars made of glass fibre reinforced plastic (GFRP)....Pages 109-116
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Mechanical and Fracture Mechanical Properties of Fine Grained Concrete for TRC Structures....Pages 119-129
Enriched finite element representation of 2D multi-cracking and debonding in textile reinforced concrete....Pages 131-138
Fracture properties of high-strength hybrid fiber-reinforced concrete....Pages 139-146
Textile Reinforced Concrete — A new Composite Material....Pages 147-156
Viscoelastic behavior of a strain hardening Ultra High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete....Pages 157-164
Ductility and Fatigue Behaviour of Polymer-Modified and Fibre-Reinforced High-Performance Concrete....Pages 165-172
Bond Cracking and Tension Stiffening Properties of a Deformed Bar Embedded in HPFRCC....Pages 173-180
Tensile strain-hardening FRC composites: Historical evolution since the 1960....Pages 181-202
UHPFRC protection layer on the crash barrier walls of a bridge....Pages 203-210
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Scale effect and combined loading of thin UHPFRC members....Pages 211-218
Hybrid fibre concrete: is there a synergetic effect?....Pages 219-228
Ultra high performance fibre reinforced cement composite under dynamic loading....Pages 229-235
An Experimental Study on Bending Behavior of Cementitious Composites Reinforced in Combination with Carbon Textile and Short-Cut PVA Fiber....Pages 237-251
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
Performance of concrete patch repair systems....Pages 255-262
Repair of cracked reinforced concrete by injection after accidental loading....Pages 263-268
Seismic strengthening of piers with partial use of high ductility cement....Pages 269-277
Sprayed GFRP shear-strengthened reinforced concrete Beams under Impact Loading....Pages 279-286
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
High Strength Fiber Composites for fabricating fire-resistant wood with improved mechanical properties....Pages 289-297
Mechanical properties of SFRC at high temperatures....Pages 299-306
Modifications of material properties due to elevated temperatures....Pages 307-314
Front Matter....Pages 315-315
Influence of cyclic loading on the degradation of mechanical concrete properties....Pages 317-324
A material model for creep and fatigue applied to asphalt....Pages 325-333
Simulation of the cyclic loading and damage behavior of gypsum composites....Pages 335-349
Superabsorbent Polymers — An Additive to Increase the Freeze-Thaw Resistance of High Strength Concrete....Pages 351-358
Corrosion products pressure needed to crack the concrete cover....Pages 359-370
Failure mechanisms in fatigue of high strength steel wires for cable-constructions....Pages 371-380
Durability aspects of AR-glass-reinforcement in textile reinforced concrete, Part 1: Material behaviour....Pages 381-388
Durability aspects of AR-glass-reinforcement in textile reinforced concrete, Part 2: Modelling and exposure to outdoor weathering....Pages 389-395
Stress corrosion cracking mechanism of prestressing steels in bicarbonate solutions....Pages 397-404
Front Matter....Pages 315-315
Moisture Transport in Concrete — Field Tests and Hygrothermal Simulations....Pages 405-418
Impact of Freeze-Thaw Degradation on FRP-Concrete Interface Fracture....Pages 419-426
Effective chloride barrier for reinforced concrete structures in order to extend the service-life....Pages 427-437
Front Matter....Pages 439-439
Setting and hardening of cement based materials: which differences between mortars and concretes?....Pages 441-449
Mechanical properties of cement mortars with superabsorbent polymers....Pages 451-462
Formwork Pressure of Concretes with high Workability....Pages 463-470
Modern statistical methods for accessing the hardening process of concrete....Pages 471-477
Virtual concrete laboratory — Continuous numerical modelling of concrete from fresh to the hardened state....Pages 479-488
Detection of early-age cracking due to restrained autogenous shrinkage....Pages 489-496
Ultrasonic and calorimetric measurements on fresh concrete with blast-furnace slag....Pages 497-504
Fresh concrete pressure in diaphragm wall panels and resulting deformations....Pages 505-512
SCC and UHPC — Effect of Mixing Technology on Fresh Concrete Properties....Pages 513-522
Analytical model for hydration of blended cement....Pages 523-529
Nucleation and growth of C-S-H phases on mineral admixtures....Pages 531-538
Improving the slipform process via material manipulation....Pages 539-546
Front Matter....Pages 547-547
Sensing methods in civil engineering for an efficient construction management....Pages 549-561
Fast Non-Destructive Localisation of Prestressing Steel Fractures in Post-Tensioned Concrete Bridges....Pages 563-574
New Possibilities for Ultrasonic Imaging of Concrete Elements....Pages 575-582
Quantitative Non-Destructive Testing: The integration of non-destructive testing and probabilistic fracture mechanics....Pages 583-590
Advances in the in-situ assessment of construction materials....Pages 591-605
Front Matter....Pages 547-547
Detection and analysis of microcracks in high-performance cementitious materials....Pages 607-614
Acoustic Emission Techniques for Rebar Corrosion in Reinforced Concrete....Pages 615-621
Online-Monitoring of Thermal Restraint Stresses for a Railways Trough Structure due to the Coupling of Trough and Underwater Concrete Slab....Pages 623-630
Radar and Fusion for Concrete Elements....Pages 631-638
Inspection of Prestressed Concrete Members using the Magnetic Leakage Flux Measurement Method — Estimation of Detection Limit....Pages 639-649
Front Matter....Pages 651-651
Abatement of Acid Mine Drainage Using Industrial Waste Products....Pages 653-665
Finely Ground Sand Fraction of Concrete Rubble as a Supplementary Cementitious Material....Pages 667-673
Numerical Simulation of Air-Steam Leakage Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete Walls....Pages 675-682
Sustainable building with concrete — a holistic approach along the Life-Cycle....Pages 683-690
Dangerous Substances in Building Materials — Emissions from PCB Coated Ceiling Panels — Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) in Indoor Air....Pages 691-696
Demountable concrete buildings, structural design of floor slabs with concrete elements and aluminium foam....Pages 697-709
Reduction of the Penetration of Water-Hazardous Liquids into Concrete using Silica Fume and Polymer Dispersions....Pages 711-719
Front Matter....Pages 721-721
Tension Softening Curves Described by Algebraic Formulas and Artificial Neural Networks....Pages 723-730
Effects of a clay additive on the properties of no-slump concrete....Pages 731-739
Development of thermal insulation materials with granular phase change composite....Pages 741-748
Examination of the relation between tensile/flexural strength and compressive strength of autoclaved aerated concrete according to prEN 12602....Pages 749-756
Modern perspectives on aggregate in concrete....Pages 757-764
Research developments and experimental data on dynamic concrete behaviour....Pages 765-773
Back Matter....Pages 775-784