ABSTRACT
A idea to reinforce ancient masonry buildings or to improve the load-bearing capacity of new masonry building elements is to apply textiles in rendering on the masonry surface or to embed them in mortar in the bed joint. This principle is based on textile reinforced concrete. However, due to the specific characteristics of masonry compared to concrete, it is necessary to find suitable textiles for the use in combination with the masonry unit and mortar or rendering for the selected application. Masonry strengthening using textiles can only be ensured if the bond performance between the composite materials is high enough to transmit the tensile stresses acting on masonry from one material to another. In addition to the bond performance between textile and mortar, the bond performance of reinforced mortar/rendering to the masonry unit/surface under shear load should be examined in the near future.
