Thin and strong concrete composites with glass textile reinforcement: about modelling the tensile response

-Textile reinforced concrete is an interesting and promising material for thin-walled structural elements. Since sufficient fibres can be included when glass-fibre reinforcement is introduced in the form of textiles, a distinct strain-hardening behaviour can be obtained beyond the introduction of matrix multiple cracking, However, in order to improve the range of applications in which this material can be used, stress-strain behaviour characteristics and crack control should be globally understood, as well as the parameters influencing them. In this paper, a stochastic material model is proposed, and both properties are discussed as function of fibre volume fraction, matrix-fibre bundle interface, and the influence of complex fibre-matrix interaction.