Abstract
Textile reinforced mortar or concrete, a thin cementitious composite reinforced by non-corrosive polymer textile fabric, was developed and has been researched for its role on repair and strengthening of reinforced concrete (RC) structures. Due to embedment of polymeric textile fabric inside the cementitious matrix, many researchers argued the superiority of this technology than the externally bonded fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) sheet in RC in terms of prevention of debonding of FRP and durability in fire. However, due to use of cement rich matrix the existing development of textile reinforced concrete (TRC) need to be more environmental friendly by replacing cement based binder with geopolymeric binder. This paper presents a first study on the flexural behavior of alkali resistant glass fiber textile reinforced geopolymer (TRG). In this study, two types of geopolymer binder is considered. One is fly ash based heat cured geopolymer and the other is fly ash/slag blended ambient air cured geopolymer binder. Both geopolymer types are considered in the TRG and the results are benchmarked with the current cement based TRC. The effect of short polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fiber as hybrid reinforced with alkali-resistant (AR) glass fiber textile on the flexural behavior of above TRC and TRGs is also studied. Results show deflection hardening behavior of both TRGs with higher flexural strength in heat cured TRG and higher deflection capacity at peak load in ambient air cured TRG. The increase in PVA fiber volume fraction from 1% to 1.5% did not show any improvement in flexural strength of both TRGs although TRC showed good improvement. In the case of deflection at peak load, an opposite phenomenon is observed where the deflection at peak load in both TRGs is increased due to increase in PVA fiber volume fractions.
Highlights
Fibers are added to concrete to address its brittleness and low tensile and flexural strengths.Various types of fibers are used to reinforce the concrete
This paper presents the flexural behavior of alkali-resistant (AR) glass textile reinforced and hybrid polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fiber–AR glass textile reinforced heat cured and ambient temperature air cured geopolymer composites and compared them with their counterpart cement based textile reinforced concrete (TRC)
It is interesting to see that the heat cured geopolymer, regardless of PVA fiber contents, exhibited about 24–25% and about 14–36% higher compressive strength than the cement ambient air cured geopolymer, respectively
Summary
Various types of fibers are used to reinforce the concrete. These are short fibers—metallic, synthetic, polymeric, and plant based—as well as in the form of mesh/fabric of above fibers. High performance fiber reinforced cementitious composites exhibiting strain hardening and multiple cracking behavior with tight crack width properties is the example of this development [1,2,3,4]. These high performance composites showed excellent durability properties [5]
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