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Wood lightweight concrete - Development resource-efficient construction materials

 Wood lightweight concrete - Development resource-efficient construction materials
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Presented at IABSE Conference: Structural Engineering: Providing Solutions to Global Challenges, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2015, published in , pp. 101-109
DOI: 10.2749/222137815818356981
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The European countries have to face increased changes in the demands on buildings. A set of new requirements concerning environmental aspects and sustainability is obliged to be translated into the...
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Author(s): (Vienna University of Technology (VUT), Department of Structural Design and Timber Engineering (ITI), Vienna, Austria)
(Vienna University of Technology (VUT), Department of Structural Design and Timber Engineering (ITI), Vienna, Austria)
Medium: conference paper
Language(s): English
Conference: IABSE Conference: Structural Engineering: Providing Solutions to Global Challenges, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2015
Published in:
Page(s): 101-109 Total no. of pages: 9
Page(s): 101-109
Total no. of pages: 9
Year: 2015
DOI: 10.2749/222137815818356981
Abstract:

The European countries have to face increased changes in the demands on buildings. A set of new requirements concerning environmental aspects and sustainability is obliged to be translated into the built reality. Within several research projects and with the aim to optimize structural performance, energy efficiency and ecological characteristics of structural building components the ITI at the VUT developed several wood-based composite systems, which combine timber products with other conventional building materials and components. As a representative example for these developments, the application of wood lightweight concrete composites illustrates the extent of interrelationships in the development of complex system solutions when focusing on the increase of resource efficiency. Experimental research, design and assessment of structural wood-based wood lightweight concrete composites are illustrated in this paper.

Keywords:
resource efficiency structural engineering sustainable building wood-based structural elements cement-bonded wood wood lightweight concrete