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Thin‐walled shell structures made of textile‐reinforced concrete
Author(s) -
Scholzen Alexander,
Chudoba Rostislav,
Hegger Josef
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
structural concrete
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1751-7648
pISSN - 1464-4177
DOI - 10.1002/suco.201300071
Subject(s) - precast concrete , shotcrete , pavilion , shell (structure) , roof , textile , structural engineering , reinforcement , reinforced concrete , materials science , composite number , engineering , composite material , civil engineering
At RWTH Aachen University recently, a pavilion was constructed with a roof shell made of textile‐reinforced concrete (TRC), a composite material consisting of a fine‐grained concrete and high‐strength, non‐corroding textile reinforcement in the form of carbon fibres. The thin‐walled TRC shell structure demonstrates impressively the loadbearing capacity of this innovative composite material. The present paper discusses the practical issues concerning the construction, such as the fabrication of the TRC shells using shotcrete, the concepts developed for the arrangement of the textile reinforcement and the erection of the shells on top of the precast concrete columns. The issues concerning the design, assessment and numerical simulation of the loadbearing behaviour of TRC shells are presented in the companion paper (Part II).