Potential for the Integration of Continuous Fiber-Based Reinforcements in Digital Concrete Production

Abstract

While digital concrete production is a highly promising and vibrant research topic regarding an increase of the degree of automation in the construction industry, some critical questions remain unanswered. One of these challenging questions concerns the integration of reinforcement into the production process. In this paper, the authors present continuous fiber-based materials as a viable and promising alternative reinforcing material for the integration in digital concrete production. To this end, current approaches for the integration of reinforcement into digital concrete production are summarized. The production process of different continuous fiber-based materials is described and their application in textile reinforced concrete is explained. The authors also evaluate the feasibility of one specific approach to the integration of textiles into the digital concrete production process.