Project Details
Projekt
Coordination Funds
Applicant
Professor Dr.-Ing. Viktor Mechtcherine
Subject Area
Construction Material Sciences, Chemistry, Building Physics
Term
since 2017
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 387153567
The processing of cement-based materials is the technological backbone in the construction of new and the maintenance of existing structures. The tailored use of rheology-based processes is not only a vital key to the mastery of current technical challenges, such as quality assurance, pumping over extreme lengths and heights, etc., but also in the development of emerging and highly innovative technologies such as 3D concrete printing. Since December 2017, DFG SPP 2005 has established itself successfully as a highly efficient, high-profile, transdisciplinary synergetic platform in the field of innovative and sustainable building materials. This platform enables over 55 committed researchers directly involved in its work to exchange ideas, cooperate, and discover cutting-edge scientific principles necessary in the mastering of technological challenges and in the design of pioneering, rheology-based processing technologies. The major objective of the coordination project in the second funding period is to promote synergetic, transdisciplinary research aiming at well-structured collaboration in the research process and high surplus value of the overall research outcomes generated within the program. The project includes both scientific and administrative portions. The coordinated use of common reference materials, methods and systems is crucial to enable comparative analysis of the research results. Special attention is to be given to novel technologies such as additive manufacturing as well as to special concretes, for example, concretes with low water content, fiber-reinforced concretes, and concretes with recycled aggregates. The choice of raw materials is driven by the urgent need to create a solid rheology-science base for using significantly more sustainable concrete technologies. The superordinate research by a postdoctoral fellow aims at compiling the research outcomes from the individual and joint research projects using innovative data management tools. The postdoc is to assume the indispensable role of conducting and promoting superordinate research and to assure synergetic linkage among the individual research projects. Research data management is a central attribute of SPP 2005. It involves the sustainable organization, storage, preservation, and sharing of collected data following both the principle “as open as possible, as closed as necessary” and good research practice. For this purpose, an advanced data acquisition system is to be introduced.
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