UHPC Ultra High Performance Concrete

An UHPC Ultra High Strength Concrete was developed in 1981 with a compressive strength of more than 120 MPa. At this time, a cement binder with a compressive strength of 80 MPa was considered as the maximum of the achievable. Today, our laboratory has reached a material strength of more than 350 MPa.

Today UHPc is no longer compared with concrete qualities but with steel qualities.

The competitor of steel will be UHPC in the future. Already today the UHPC reaches and exceeds the standard steel in the application variety.

Since this newly developed binder has found a hitherto unprecedented range of possible applications, the term Ultra High Performance Concrete was developed. This generally used product designation is exclusively focused on the word performance and is therefore not a technical specification.

The most important characteristics of the Ultra High Performance Concrete are made by a special cementitious added with mineral, metallic, organic, non-metals, inorganic non-metallic additives or aggregates.

Unfortunately, no generally accepted technical description of Ultra High Strength Concrete products has been agreed on worldwide, which considerably makes comparability more difficult for users.