A review paper on mechanical properties of flexural and impact test on textile reinforced engineered cementitious composites

The following review paper thoroughly enables the readers to emulate the flexural behavior and impact test method for textile reinforced cementitious composites (TRCCs). The flexural parameters of ECCs corresponding to type of fiber material, fiber volume fraction, fiber volume length and strength parameters were discussed. For the textile reinforcement, the parameters like type of weaving pattern, mesh size, roving tex, fiber volume fraction and number of layers were discussed. Based on the tensile strength of textile fiber material, carbon, AR-glass, aramid and basalt fiber mesh were used for strengthening, repair works, plastering and reinforcement for thin elements. And also, the impact test performance on cementitious concrete composites is addressed as well as methods adopted for finding impact performance are discussed from the numerous literatures. This paper provides summary about the flexural and impact performance of textile fibers introduced into the concrete composites in different mesh sizes and fiber volume fractions. Generally, inclusion of textile fibers gives much more performance in tensile, toughness, flexural, energy absorption capacity and ductility in ECC composites. Many of the researchers have tried with different fiber materials for producing ECC and TRC composites separately, but only few of them used both have been discussed. Finally, from the literatures mostly artificial fibers are used for making textile reinforced composites.