Material and bonding characteristics for dimensioning and modelling of textile reinforced concrete (TRC) elements

Issue Title: Special Issue: Textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC) (Guest Editor: Wolfgang Brameshuber) The collaborative research center "Textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC) - Development of a New Technology" (SFB 532) established at Aachen University (RWTH Aachen) is investigating the basic mechanisms of this new composite material. The use of technical textiles as reinforcement material in cementitious binder systems allows the production of thin-structured elements as will be dimensioned, modelled, and produced within the research project. For this reason the material properties of the single components have to be known and will be integrated in analytical and numerical simulations of textile reinforced structures. Thus key parameters on the meso-level are introduced. These are on the one hand the tensile strength and elastic modulus of filaments and rovings, on the other hand mechanical and fracture mechanical parameters of the matrix, and finally the bonding characteristics of filaments as well as rovings embedded in the cement based matrix.[PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]