Experimental investigation and modelling of flexural properties of carbon textile reinforced concrete

Autor: Masoud Latifi, Mana Halvaei, Masoud Jamshidi, Mojtaba Ejtemaei
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Construction and Building Materials. 262:120877
ISSN: 0950-0618
Popis: In this study, carbon woven textiles with mesh sizes from 0 to 20 mm at both constant and different volume percentages were woven and applied to fine aggregate concretes. Four-point bending test and scanning electron microscopy were carried out on the specimens to investigate the flexural behavior and microstructure of the samples, respectively. The flexural load and toughness of the samples were increased more than 380% and 820%, respectively, by a decrease in the textile mesh size from 20 to 2 mm. This was attributed to an increase in the textile volume percentages. However, the sample contained textile with the mesh size of zero showed weaker performance due to decrease in the penetration of the cement matrix into the textile structure. By using textiles with different mesh sizes but the same volume contents, it was found that the mesh size of the textile, in contrast to volume content, is not dominant factor on flexural behavior of the TRCs. Finally, artificial neural network (ANN) was used to model flexural strength of the samples. It was shown that ANN is an effecting technique for predicting the flexural strength of the carbon textile reinforced concrete samples.
Databáze: OpenAIRE