Improving Performance of Concrete Structures with Textile Reinforcements
摘要
The application of fabric as a reinforcement and strengthening material for building elements has gained significant attention in recent times. The unique characteristics of fabric structures, such as light weight, tensile strength, flexibility, and durability, have been widely acknowledged. The development of textile reinforced concrete (TRC) requires a comprehensive understanding of fabric parameters to enable engineers to design and construct TRC structures that meet specific end use requirements. The most commonly used fabrics in TRC are 2-D woven, 2-D knitted, and 3-D spacer fabric structures. This chapter reviews important fabric parameters, including fiber type, weave design, reinforcement ratio, embedment length, yarn fineness, pick density, loop size, inlay yarn, grid opening, resin-coated fabric, and hybrid fabric. These fabric parameters significantly impact the mechanical behaviour of TRC in terms of pull-out load, tensile strength, ductility, strain hardening behaviour, flexural strength, impact resistance, toughness, multiple cracking behaviour, crack width, and crack spacing. Woven fabrics are generally deemed more suitable due to the stable fabric structure, which provides mechanical anchoring and resistance against pull-out force inside the concrete matrix through warp-weft interlacement. However, certain special 3-D warp-knitted and spacer fabric structures have also gained wide acceptance as concrete reinforcement. Furthermore, resin-coated fabrics have demonstrated improvements in strength utilization of constituent yarns in cementitious composites, leading to improved mechanical behaviour of TRC.