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Early Developments of Concrete Prefabrication
Abstract Eugene Freyssinet, in an unpublished manuscript, wrote. “One day I had the idea that although I could not force concrete to follow steel strain deformations without breaking, I could impose steel the previous deformation of concrete. It would suffice to impose to the whole of the reinforcement up to a higher total tension stress so if it would follow that any further deformation of the concrete it still would be permanently compressed”. Prefabrication was a topic that Freyssinet did not devote special attention or interest in his writings. He just wrote one article with the name “prefabrication et batiment” at the end of his life, when he was 74 years old. He made some particularly interesting considerations regarding the huge difficulties that prevented prefabrication in the field of architectural buildings and where so seldom buildings in which he himself had intervened. He designated as primary cause the improvisation inherent in the world of construction, whose companies do not ever consider long and deep investigations and studies, because they impose their own performance, as opposed to large industries, that spend many years of tests, investigations and checks before making the decision to mass-produce some of their models. He was aware of the enormous social importance of prefabrication, that would save workers’ painful muscular effort, that were many times hung on scaffolding, exposed to the rain, the cold, and the sun. Freyssinet then hoped that eventually prefabrication would triumph against routine, inertia and interests coalitions that prevented the full development of real industrialization and therefore prefabrication. The evolution of prefabrication with prestressed elements in Spain consisted of more than 50 years of continuous development in the prefabrication techniques and also deep improvements in the quality of materials, design of the elements and the construction or production process.
Early Developments of Concrete Prefabrication
Abstract Eugene Freyssinet, in an unpublished manuscript, wrote. “One day I had the idea that although I could not force concrete to follow steel strain deformations without breaking, I could impose steel the previous deformation of concrete. It would suffice to impose to the whole of the reinforcement up to a higher total tension stress so if it would follow that any further deformation of the concrete it still would be permanently compressed”. Prefabrication was a topic that Freyssinet did not devote special attention or interest in his writings. He just wrote one article with the name “prefabrication et batiment” at the end of his life, when he was 74 years old. He made some particularly interesting considerations regarding the huge difficulties that prevented prefabrication in the field of architectural buildings and where so seldom buildings in which he himself had intervened. He designated as primary cause the improvisation inherent in the world of construction, whose companies do not ever consider long and deep investigations and studies, because they impose their own performance, as opposed to large industries, that spend many years of tests, investigations and checks before making the decision to mass-produce some of their models. He was aware of the enormous social importance of prefabrication, that would save workers’ painful muscular effort, that were many times hung on scaffolding, exposed to the rain, the cold, and the sun. Freyssinet then hoped that eventually prefabrication would triumph against routine, inertia and interests coalitions that prevented the full development of real industrialization and therefore prefabrication. The evolution of prefabrication with prestressed elements in Spain consisted of more than 50 years of continuous development in the prefabrication techniques and also deep improvements in the quality of materials, design of the elements and the construction or production process.
Early Developments of Concrete Prefabrication
Fernández-Ordóñez Hernández, David (author)
2017-08-06
7 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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