Forget Iron Reinforcement: VUB Engineers Create Wafer-Thin Concrete Using Textile Mesh
March 16, 2023
March 16, 2023
BRUSSELS, Belgium, March 16 (TNSres) -- Free University of Brussels-VUB issued the following news release:
Researchers and engineers at the VUB research group Mechanics of Materials and Constructions (MeMC) are experimenting extensively with textile reinforced concrete. These are not ordinary textiles that clothes are made from, but technical textiles, made of carbon, glass or basalt fibres. Using this kind of material for reinforcement can reduce the amount of concrete in a structu . . .
Researchers and engineers at the VUB research group Mechanics of Materials and Constructions (MeMC) are experimenting extensively with textile reinforced concrete. These are not ordinary textiles that clothes are made from, but technical textiles, made of carbon, glass or basalt fibres. Using this kind of material for reinforcement can reduce the amount of concrete in a structu . . .