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The development of Ultra High Performance Concrete (UHPC) with its high compressive strength of more than 200 MPa and its improved durability marks a quantum leap in concrete technology. This high performance material offers a variety of interesting applications. It allows the construction of sustainable and economic buildings with an extraordinary slim design. Its high strength and ductility makes it the ultimate building material e.g. for bridge decks, storage halls, thin-wall shell structures and highly-loaded columns.
Beside its improved strength properties, its outstanding resistance against all kinds of corrosion is an additional milestone on the way towards no-maintenance constructions.
The very special properties of UHPC distinguishes it remarkably from normal and high performance concrete. For complete utilisation of its advanced properties special know-how is necessary for its production, construction and design.
Worldwide this material is under thorough investigation. Several applications were already been built. One of the first precast UHPC bridges in the world will be built in Kassel in this year. The bridge is designed as a foot and bike bridge with a total length of 150 m. This is one of the reasons to held the conference in Kassel.
More than 75 experts from all over the world will present their scientific and practical experiences with the new and outstanding material. They will give a broad overview of all aspects of the raw materials, the micro- and macro-structure, the mechanical behaviour, the durability as well as of construction and design procedures appropriate for this material.
The conference will promote the exchange of scientific and practical experiences and the common usage of this new and outstanding building material.
We are pleased to welcome you at the University of Kassel!
Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. M. Schmidt Prof. Dr.-Ing. E. Fehling
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