Sophia Immanuel, Aniket Ojha, Baskar Kaliyamoorthy and
Arun Murugesan
Vol. 18 (2023), No. 4, 593–618
DOI: 10.2140/jomms.2023.18.593
Abstract
Textile-reinforced concrete (TRC) is a creative emerging composite material with
enormous possibilities for structural applications. It makes it possible to fabricate
robust, light, and thinner elements with a minimum concrete cover. With the ease of
availability of basaltic rocks in India, basalt fibres and basalt biaxial textile meshes
have found broad applicability in India and other countries around the globe. They
have proved efficient compared to synthetic textiles in strengthening and
toughening structural components. Basalt textile reinforced concrete (BTRC) has
minimal research and application as a load-bearing structural component.
The mechanical characteristics that govern the design of BTRC composites
are reviewed in this article briefly. This review article is categorised into
four main research areas, namely properties of basalt textiles, composite
behaviour of BTRC in tension and flexure, dynamic response to impact loading,
strengthening of existing structures. In addition, the advantages and disadvantages of
BTRC in comparison to other TRCs has been discussed. Furthermore, this
article proposed the futuristic direction to reinforce the research on the wide
applicability of BTRC as a structural component specially for low-cost housing.
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