ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the effect of sample processing parameters on the textile-reinforced concrete (TRC) composites. A cast process was used to study the effect of fabric content and ply orientation. In the first set of experiments, two layers of AR glass fabric were used and the thickness was adjusted as a variable. Classes of strain-hardening fiber-reinforced concrete (FRC) materials such as TRC, as discussed by Naaman and Reinhardt, are unlike conventional FRC where fracture localization occurs immediately after the first crack is formed. In the strain-hardening composites, distribution of cracking throughout the specimen is facilitated by the fiber bridging mechanism. The uniaxial tension test captures the various modes of failure that take place in a TRC specimen. By using this method, one can obtain a tensile stress-strain response as well as gain insight into nonlinear modes of behavior such as distributed cracking, fiber debonding, and pullout mechanisms.
