ABSTRACT
This chapter provides description of several developments in the production and manufacture of various trextile-reinforced concrete (TRC) components. For TRC, the reinforcement is incorporated in a lamination manner having several layers of fabrics in a single composite, in which the fabrics and the matrix can be made from different raw materials. Cement-based composite laminates prepared with continuous reinforcement by fabrics enables the full potential of fibers to be materialized because the manufacturing technique is fully controlled, where all the fibers can be positioned in the composite at any desired direction depending on yarn orientation in the fabric. The pultrusion assures uniform production of fabric–cement composites that exhibit significant improved performance in which their tensile behavior is characterized by multiple cracking. The TRC shells were produced by placing fine-grained concrete with short glass fibers and two layers of fabric alternately in a lamination process.
