ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the durability of textile-reinforced concrete (TRC) with glass yarns, highlighting the mechanisms that may lead to decline in properties as well as the means used to overcome this problem. In view of the relations between microstructure and aging, average values of the long-term performance of glass-reinforced cementitious matrices were compared to address the similarities between the older generation of glass fibers (GRC) and the newer glass TRC. It was used by the researchers to study the micromechanical behavior in TRC composites. The characteristics are common to most of the currently available strain-hardening cement composites (SHCC), whether made of fabric reinforcement or discrete short fibers, and thus these aspects of performance of TRC can be highlighted by considering also the know-how available in strain-hardening composites in general. In TRC composites, the crack width can be controlled to be even at smaller values, demonstrating the marked improved performance that can be achieved in this composite.
