Structure and Mechanical Properties of Textile Reinforced Concrete: Review

Textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC) is a novel high-performance composite material emerged in recent years as valuable and lightweight construction materials. TRC consists of technical textiles in the form of mesh used as reinforcement and fine-grained concrete used as a matrix. These textile reinforcements can be made up of different fiber materials, such as alkali-resistant glass, carbon, aramid or polymeric fibers. The advantages of using textile reinforcement add ductile nature to the concrete and also it is an anti-corrosive material. This paper reviews the detailed structure, properties and role of the different materials used in TRC. For textile reinforcement, not only the production technique and its geometry important but also the yarn types must be considered. The literature suggests that bonded and woven types perform better than other fabric types which provide good adhesion property with the cement-based composites. Limiting Oxygen Index values of the fabrics indicates the flame resistance capacity in which carbon and aramid fibers have the highest value. The coating given on different fabrics improves composites mechanical performance. However, the tensile test on TRC’S composites reveals that aramid and high-density polyethylene fabrics show better bonding strength due to the penetrability of the cementitious matrix between the filaments of fabrics.