Entwicklung einer Vergussverankerung für Zugglieder aus Faserverbundwerkstoff

In general prestressed concrete structures are very durable and reliable. The durabilty of such structures can yet be sensitively affected by the influence of corrosion under certain circumstances. Corrosion may also lead to significant problems concerning the medium as well as long-term load carrying behaviour especially for stay cables, external post-tensioning systems or old structures with insufficient execution of prestressing works. The upcoming damages on prestressed steel tendons given by the corrosion problem and the resulting cost-intensive rehabilitation and maintainance measures introduced the application of alternative construction materials, such as fiber composites (fiber reinforced plastics – FRP) in civil engineering. Carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) offer a reliable alternative to conventional steel tendons due to their excellent mechanical and strength properties in fiber direction and high potential as tension elements in prestressed concrete structures or bridge constructions (stay cables). However the physical properties in transversal direction are very poor and characterized by a high sensitivity against lateral pressure. In order to exploit the high material capacities of CFRP, the key problem of an economic and efficient application in prestressed systems is to find a suitable anchorage system which prevents a premature failure of the CFRP tendon subjected to high lateral stresses and which further enables a uniform stress distribution inside the anchoring body.