Selected chapters from the German concrete yearbook are now available in the English "Beton-Kalender Series" for an international audience. This book offers a comprehensive overview of ultra high performance concrete (UHPC), focusing on its production, properties, design, and detailing, with practical examples from around the world.
With HiPerMat 4 on March 9-11, 2016 the 4th International Symposium on UHPC and High Performance Construction Materials documents the actual state of development of application in the fields of - Material Science and Development - Composite Concrete Materials - Durability - Strength and Deformation Behaviour - Structural Design - Structural Modelling and Optimisation - Structural Sustainability - Guidelines and Standardisation - Lightweight Structures - High-Precision Manufacturing for Pre-Fabrication - Innovative Applications - Assembling and Joining This volume contains the short versions (two pages) of all contributions that have been accepted for publication at HiPerMat 4. The full papers are available in digital format as well.
Ultra High Performance Concrete (UHPC) not only offers superior compressive strength but also extraordinary ductility and far more durability than ordinary concrete. It enables to build structures which are sustainable and economical and come with light and filigree appearance at the same time. During the last four years, since the First International Symposium on Ultra High Performance Concrete held in Kassel in 2004, UHPC has gained much more attendance all over the world, being it by different types of applications for interesting structures or by research on the material itself and the optimization of its production and behaviour. Much of this work has been presented and discussed at the Second International Symposium on Ultra High Performance Concrete in Kassel in 2008 in more than 100 lectures. The presentations have given a broad survey of all aspects of UHPC including raw materials, micro- and macro-structures, mechanical behaviour, durability as well as of construction and design specifications appropriate for this material. Exciting architectural concepts and many examples of interesting engineering applications have been presented at the symposium.