Pull-out of textile reinforcement in concrete》.pdf

Construction and Building Materials 71 (2014) 63–71 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Construction and Building Materials journal homepage: /lo cate/conbuildmat Pull-out of textile reinforcement in concrete Natalie Williams Portal a,⇑, Ignasi Fernandez Perez b, Lars Nyholm Thrane c, Karin Lundgren a a Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg 412 96, Sweden b Dept. of Construction Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – Barcelona Tech, Barcelona 08034, Spain c Dept. of Building Technology – Concrete, Danish Technological Institute, Taastrup 2630, Denmark h i g h l i g h t s Pull-out tests of TRC to gain better knowledge of the complex bond behaviour. Local-bond slip relationship evaluated from experimental data. 1D and 3D numerical models to simulate complex global bond behaviour. 3D models validated the simplified assumptions applied in the 1D model. a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC) has emerged as a promising novel alternative offering corrosion resis- Received 19 February 2014 tance and both thinner and light-weight structures. Although TRC has been extensively researched, the Received in revised form 26 June 2014 formalization of experimental methods and design standards is still in progress. The aim of this work Accepted 18 August 2014 was to extract local-bond behaviour from pull-out tests of basalt and carbon TRC and utilize these in both Available online 15 September 2014