a team at TU Dresden in Germany have completed what is believed to be the world’s first building made with carbon-reinforced concrete, in which the steel rebar is replaced with carbon fiber.
Carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (CFRPs) are essential in industries like aerospace, automotive, and renewable energy due to ...
New research published in Engineering by Ju-Hyung Kim and Yail J. Kim explores the behavior of reinforced concrete beams ...
As the demand for more sustainable construction grows and raw material shortages like steel continue to be a challenge, fiber-reinforced concrete has become an increasingly popular choice for ...
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One of the problems is that large amounts of carbon dioxide ... (long continuous fibers). The reinforcement mesh is cast into concrete, and when the textile-reinforced concrete is loaded, the ...
"You could get away from the issue of corrosion protection, by using carbon ... reinforced concrete members subjected to tension, bending, and in-plane loads," published in the Construction ...
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