ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL CONCRETE ABSTRACTS PORTAL

  • The International Concrete Abstracts Portal is an ACI led collaboration with leading technical organizations from within the international concrete industry and offers the most comprehensive collection of published concrete abstracts.

International Concrete Abstracts Portal

  


Title: Flexural Strengthening of RC Structures with Textile-Reinforced Concrete

Author(s): F. Jesse, S. Weiland, and M. Curbach

Publication: Symposium Paper

Volume: 250

Issue:

Appears on pages(s): 49-58

Keywords: AR glass; bond; carbon; delamination; fiber; flexural strengthening; strengthening; textile-reinforced concrete

DOI: 10.14359/20139

Date: 3/1/2008

Abstract:
Textile-reinforced concrete (TRC) is a high-performance composite in which technical textiles made of high-performance fibers are embedded in a fine-grained concrete matrix. Textile reinforced concrete extends concrete applications to completely new fields. Besides slender new concrete elements, strengthening of already-existing concrete structures by thin textile-reinforced concrete layers is possible. This type of strengthening noticeably increases both the ultimate loadbearing capacity and serviceability of reinforced concrete structures. This aspect is shown in the present paper using experimental results of TRC-strengthened slabs.