EXPERIMENTAL AND ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF HYBRID TEXTILE REINFORCED CONCRETE IN FLEXURE

Abstract

Textile reinforcement was made up of non-corrosive materials and its structural application is very large based upon its properties. The paper deals with the behaviour of thin shells reinforced with textile reinforced concrete in both experimentally and analytically in flexure. The size of the specimen used was 1200mm x 250mm x 50mm“tested under the four point bending load” test. The Thin shells was reinforced with S-glass textile reinforced concrete with fully replaced the steel reinforcement. The experimental result shows that the load and deflection varies accordingly by changing the thickness of textile layers in the shells. It was observed that failure of due to inner shear slip resistance. From the results S-glass shows more load carrying capacity and deflections was controlled. Further analytical investigation was done to validate the experimental results. In analytical investigation, S-glass textile reinforced concrete with fully replaced with steel reinforcement. It was observed that the S-glass having more flexibility.