Prof. Middendorf and Mr. Schleiting were in Cape Town, South Africa, from September 04 - 07 to present their results and findings on "Potential of shape memory alloys in fiber reinforced high performance concrete" on the basis of 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 (FGL) fibers to improve fresh concrete rheology. Furthermore, he explained future plans to use FGL for internal prestressing of high-performance and ultra-high-performance concretes.

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

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