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The presented joint research project “CaPreFloor”, which started in
2023, aims to employ prestressed textile-reinforced concrete using carbonfibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) to design lightweight floor elements. This allows the reduction of common steel-reinforced concrete floors of 30 cm thickness to a maximum of 6 cm for office, residential, and hotel buildings.
Lower material consumption significantly contributes to the conservation of resources and minimises the carbon footprint. In addition, the prefabrication of these floor elements results in high and consistent quality, short construction times and enhanced reusability of the components.
A team of experts from various research and practice fields works on this project to achieve the set goal. Currently, open questions include the anchorage and load transfer of the prestressed CFRP reinforcement, structural failure indication, the behaviour of CFRP reinforcement and high-performance concrete at elevated temperatures, as well as fire resistance and sound insulation. As a result, an extensive test programme on different size scales will be conducted. Practical aspects, such as design, field of application and life cycle, as well as the development of an automated production plant, are also considered.
The paper will present considerations related to the geometry and design, material selection, manufacturing, ecological footprint, and intended experimental test programme. Four different geometries and two different CFRP reinforcements are being examined. As a result, the developed floor must fulfil all practical requirements in building construction.
An optimisation tool was developed to reduce the embodied carbon of floor systems. The considered system consists of a doubly curved beam-like shell made of carbon-fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) prestressed concrete and an infill layer. The thin-walled design of the system makes it susceptible to sound excitation. Therefore, the optimisation tool considers the static ultimate and serviceability limit states and the sound insulation aspect. Due to a lack of experience with the building acoustic properties of this floor system, it is, in practice, often simplified as a homogeneous floor. This paper aims to investigate its acoustic behaviour in more detail using numerical simulations and to integrate the gained knowledge into the optimisation tool. For this purpose, a simulation concept is set up and implemented. Simulations are carried out for different combinations of geometry and material parameters of the floor system. The data obtained is summarised into linear regression equations that estimate the weighted airborne sound reduction index and the weighted equivalent normalised impact sound pressure level of the system. The optimisation results based on these equations show a clear difference compared to those based on the above-mentioned simplified approach.
