A revival in façades: Textile reinforced concrete panels are light, safe and aesthetically pleasing

Textile reinforced concrete was developed in recent years into a construction technique that has its benefits and advantages applications where conventional types of reinforcement have their limits. The current, minimum slab thickness for steel-reinforced façade slabs is 7.0 cm; this due to the minimum, required cover ensure adequate corrosion protection. Façade anchors these thicknesses are building authority approved. As protection not an issue textile concrete, can be significantly reduced. requirement component now determined by load-bearing capacity production-related boundary conditions. For practical reasons, panel 3.0 cm proven best choice. Compared panels, weight reduction almost 60%. Thin elements great interest cases when or panels largely limited e.g. because adjoining renovation upgrade projects, retrofitting improvements. other materials, characteristic physics fire properties, irrespective thickness. Obviously, minimal place extra demands on planning construction. Especially effects punching, splitting breakout must examined experiments. This overview calculation test methods. Results provided show bearing behaviour fixings thin, slabs. design rules explained results illustrated.