Flexible folding of textile-reinforced concrete components (D04*)

• Subject Area: Engineering Design, Machine Elements, Product Development
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 417002380

Within the scope of the project, methods are to be researched for the automated folding of plane, thin, fresh textile-reinforced concrete into complex component-specific non-orthogonal geometries. This enables sustainable and economical production and should be achieved by integrating a large number of component-specific controlled folding edges in the interface between the tool and the component. This gives rise to various scientific questions, from the joint kinematics and sealing, the behavior of the workpiece during folding, over the mathematical optimization of the position of the folding lines up to the actuation of the tool, which are investigated in the project.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 280: Design Strategies for Material-Minimised Carbon Reinforced Concrete Structures—Principles of a New Approach to Construction
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Dresden, since 7/2024
• Project Heads: Dr.-Ing. Olivier Reinertz, since 7/2024; Professorin Dr.-Ing. Katharina Schmitz, since 7/2024