Technical terms for composite components in civil engineering and mechanical engineering

by Prof. Dr. Ralf Cuntze

Porpose of the Glossary: Borders between engineering disciplines are disappearing, more and more. It can also be noticed that in the different fields of the fiber-using industry there are different "speeches" and that technical terms are sometimes used very differently. Several groups of engineers would therefore have to be connected conceptually so that they understand each other correctly when making decisions. These are 'constructive' engineers from the building industry and mechanical engineering and further, engineers from the textile and material range as well as the manufacturing.
There is currently no glossary to help reduce these understanding problems. The present glossary therefore represents a first attempt to bring the above engineers together, so that they can solve their technical tasks faster and in a clearly coordinated way. The author can rely not only on his own decades of experience with primarily polymeric matrix, but also on several special documents such as Carbon Cconcrete Planner Folder (Tudalit), Eurocodes, VDI 2014-Bl.3, Gae18, BÜV10, LiB18, Glossary Wikipedia, as well as on constructive suggestions for improvement from engineers of the above groups, see contributors at the glossary end.
The glossary focuses especially on carbon fibers CF and concrete matrices. At the beginning it presents a first scheme of order for the different, interconnected disciplines. At the end, a picture gallery illustrates technological details and applications. This gallery just includes carbon applications from construction industry because these are less known.

Warranty: This GLOSSARY is a compilation of terms and partly their definitions stemming from the author’s as well as from numerous other glossaries/origins/publications. It should be seen an informative publication and is intended to be a so-called ‘living document’ reissued following future demands.
If someone wishes to make always welcoming constructive comments and wants to add or complete topics the latest draft can be found under the Carbon Connected ‘discussion platform’ GLOSSARY Bau WIKI of Composite Unitede.V. (CUeV). This GLOSSARY is provided by the author ‘as is’ and without any warranty hoping to make the addressed engineers fit for their specific purposes.