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First double-curved textile concrete facade
As part of the CurveTex research project, the Institute of Textile Technology at RWTH Aachen University (Institut für Textiltechnik der RWTH Aachen) has realised in cooperation with industrial partners a double-curved textile-concrete facade. This new development combines the advantages of textile concrete with new three-dimensional shaping possibilities using elastically-adapted reinforcement textiles made of glass fibres. The variety of forms of concrete facades is thus supplemented by free, undulating or round structures.
According to RWTH textile reinforced concrete (TRC) elements have so far only been used as flat panels, flat sandwich structures or simply curved building structures. As part of the research project ‘CurveTex - Development of a drapable textile reinforcement for the production of double-curved textile reinforced concrete elements’, the world’s first double-curved TRC facade was realised. The project objectives were the development of a drapable textile reinforcement for a concrete matrix and the production process (concrete casting process) for
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