{"id":8717,"date":"2020-07-15T12:56:45","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T10:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/?p=8717"},"modified":"2020-08-03T13:05:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T11:05:32","slug":"when-concrete-learns-to-pre-stress-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/when-concrete-learns-to-pre-stress-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"EMPA: When Concrete learns to pre-stress itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concrete is by far the most widely used building material in the world. Using a novel concrete formula, an Empa team has succeeded in producing self-tensioned concrete elements &#8211; with CFRP. Thanks to a special recipe, the concrete expands as it hardens. As a result of this expansion, the concrete puts the CFRP bars in its interior under tension and thus automatically pre-stresses itself. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.empa.ch\/web\/s604\/pre-stressed-concrete-eq68\">Further information<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concrete is by far the most widely used building material in the world. Using a novel concrete formula, an Empa team has succeeded in producing self-tensioned concrete elements &#8211; with CFRP. Thanks to a special recipe, the concrete expands as it hardens. As a result of this expansion, the concrete puts the CFRP bars in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"main-cat":[35],"bildung":[],"forschungs-cat":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8717"},{"taxonomy":"maincategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/main-cat?post=8717"},{"taxonomy":"bildung","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bildung?post=8717"},{"taxonomy":"forschung","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forschungs-cat?post=8717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}