Prof. Middendorf and Mr. Schleiting were in Cape Town, South Africa from September 4 - 7 to present their results and findings on the topic "Potential of shape memory alloys in fiber reinforced high performance concrete" based on an invited paper at the "Eight International Conference On Structural Engineering, Mechanics And Computation 2022" (SEMC2022). At the conference organized by Prof. Alphose Zingoni, Prof. Middendorf presented results on the use of curled shape memory alloy (SMA) fibres to improve fresh concrete rheology. He also explained future plans to use SMA for the internal prestressing of high-performance and ultra-high-performance concretes.

The Department of Concrete Structures was also digitally represented at the conference by Prof. Ekkehard Fehling. Prof. Fehling also presented his results on the topic of "Functional elements exploiting superelasticity and the shape memory effect of Fe-Mn-Al-Ni-X shape-memory alloys in structural engineering" as part of an invited paper.

More information at: http://www.semc.uct.ac.za/