ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: The main goal of the present study is to experimentally investigate the response of structural elements cast against thin-walled stay-in-place formwork elements made of Textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC). TRC comprises an innovative composite material consisting of fabric meshes made of long woven, knitted or even unwoven fibre yarns (e.g. carbon, glass or aramid) in at least two (typically orthogonal) directions embedded in a cementitious matrix (mortar or fine-grained concrete). The experimental investigation described in this study was carried out on two types of reinforced concrete specimens: the first one included 22 beam-type specimens incorporating flatTRC stay-in-place formworks and the second one included 11 prismatic column-type specimens cast into permanent precast TRC shafts.
