The institute offers a broad research spectrum with its two departments "Materials and Construction" and Fastening- and Strengthening Methods" and the two Juniorprofessorships "Timber engineering" and "Construction Robotics".
Department Materials and Construction
The research activities of the department cover following topics:
- Innovative Materials
- Concrete mixing technology
- Energy-optimised building constructions
- Energetic retrofitting
Department Fastening and Strengthening Methods
Overview of current research activities:
- Load bearing behavior of anchors and adhesive bonding
Investigations on the behavior of various anchor systems in concrete and masonry: cast-in anchors and anchor channels, post-installed anchors as adhesive bonded anchors, expansion anchors undercut anchors - Bond behavior of reinforcement and anchorage
Improvement of testing procedures by development of new methods (beam-end-test) under various applications as static and dynamic loading, environmental influences and special loadings - Strengthening methods for reinforced concrete structures
- Hazard Engineering
- Numerical Simulation of complex processes of concrete and reinforced concrete structures
Junior Professorship Timber Engineering
Since September 2022, the research spectrum has been supplemented by the newly established junior professorship in timber engineering. It deals with wood-based materials and connections with a special focus on digital manufacturing technologies.
Tenure-Track Professorship Construction Robotics
The Tenure-Track Professorship Robotic Construction was established in June 2024 and focuses on robotic building construction. The professorship contributes to the vision of a cyber-physical construction site and interlinks approaches to building construction in civil engineering with control engineering and computer science. This includes the development of related construction systems, construction processes and control approaches for on-site construction robotics.
Contact
Jan Hofmann
Prof. Dr.-Ing.Professor,
Substitute Director