Trade Journals for the Concrete Industry

Modern buildings place high demands on the reliability of supporting and bracing elements. Despite sophisticated building designs, which often involve high loads on the support structure, long lifetimes are required whose safeguarding makes the permanent monitoring of critical elements necessary. This monitoring is performed by highly advanced optical sensors made of glass fibres. On account of their outstanding characteristics – zero point stability, high resolution, non-wearing – they are able to monitor the condition of critical structural elements over the entire service life of the structure