Digital Concrete Production With Vertical Textile Reinforcement

One major challenge preventing widespread introduction of digital concrete production is the integration reinforcing materials. Textile grid structures offer a possible solution for this challenge.
 reinforced (TRC) has been researched approximately 20 years and currently being commercialized, initially in pre-cast elements facades bridges. TRC enables construction thin-walled, strong with high freedom design, properties well suited production.
 First trials have performed published. However, these studies only use short fibres mixed into matrix or textile reinforcement within printing plane, which limits transferred loads.
 This study shows results preliminary tests vertical, out-of-plane reinforcements production. The fixed vertically process diagonally, “through” textile. four-point bending are presented.