Flexural Response of Mineral-Impregnated Textile Reinforced Concrete
摘要
Textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC), due to its outstanding properties, including good resistance to corrosion, low carbon footprint, excellent mechanical performance etc., has been received a growth attention in recent years. On account of the unique configuration of multifilament fibre yarn exited in TRCs, i.e., hundreds or thousands of continuous filaments in one single yarn, concrete matrix containing relatively lager particles is difficult to penetrate the interior of fibre yarn. It results in a poor stress transmission from matrix to fibre filaments and, thus, inferior utilisation of fibre filaments. For this, a pre-process on fibre yarn, i.e., polymer-impregnation, was introduced in the manufacturing of TRC composites, in which the fibre yarn was firstly impregnated by polymer-based material and forming a monolithic unit before embedding in concrete matrix. Nevertheless, because of the chemical incompatibility to concrete matrix and poor high temperature resistance of polymer, polymer-impregnated TRCs presented poor bonding between impregnated textile and concrete matrix, and degraded mechanical performance after exposure to high temperature. Therefore, impregnation based on mineral-based materials, which possess excellent compatibility to cementitious matrix and stability to high temperature, are rising. This paper presents a preliminary study about evaluating flexural performance of TRC plate reinforced with mineral-impregnated fabric mesh.