Some years ago, and some years to go Fastening technology in the Institute of Structural Engineering

On the occasion of Konrad Bergmeister's 20th anniversary of academic activity in the Institute of Structural Engineering, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, the authors are happy to give a narration of the past and a wish for the future: to present the developments and innovations carried out by the team of fastening technology so far, and a preview of the future work anticipated. Since the last few years, particular investigations on the behaviour of connections to concrete under various design situations have been carried out in the Institute of Structural Engineering of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) - Vienna from the respective research group headed by Professor Konrad Bergmeister. Objective of the present paper is the review of the state-of-knowledge and the normative framework with regard to the response of fastenings under axial, shear and oblique loads, seismic excitation and long-term loading. The authors are excited to see the future of this research within the very promising recently established Christian Doppler Laboratory "Life-cycle robustness in fastening technology" (LiCRoFasT), and an outlook to the objectives of this research project is also presented herein.