LAYERED FINITE ELEMENT (FE) MODELLING OF CEMENT COMPOSITES COMBINING CONTINUOUS TEXTILES AND SYNTHETIC MICROFIBRES: A FLEXURAL ANALYSIS Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This research presents a layered, semi-smeared modelling approach for the prediction of the flexural response of Textile Reinforced Cement (TRC) beams with combined continuous textiles (0.7v%) and short microfibres (1%). The constitutive behaviour of the composites was obtained from tensile experiments on TRC configurations and subsequently implemented in two different smearing approaches. The first approach concentrated the cross-sectional ...