This paper presents a comprehensive experimental program on the development of ductile, sustainable, and low-cost TRC composites for structural or repair applications. For this purpose, range ternary quaternary blended cement mixes made Ordinary Portland Cement, Fly Ash, Limestone Silica Fume (with 70% to 80% replacement levels) with target compressive strength 30 MPa slump > 300 mm were develo...

Abstract In mortars, the use of fibres has been diachronically a commonly used technique. Ancient Greece, wood and straw were particularly to increase volume stability in clay lime mortars. Overtime, with evolution technology, natural replaced by modern materials like polypropylene, steel, glass carbon fibres. Recently, climate change strong demand for independence from non-renewable mineral re...

The development of tough high-peformance composites often employs a variety of analytical methods that correlate morphological, yield and fracture characteristics to the corresponding properties of a composite. Most of these techniques can be severely limited due to the high concentration of fibres used in high performance composites (nominally 60 wt %). Several light microscopy techniques can ...

Glasses, in their different forms and compositions, have special properties that are not found other materials. The combination of transparency hardness at room temperature, combined with a suitable mechanical strength excellent chemical durability, makes this material indispensable for many applications technological fields (as, instance, the optical fibres which constitute physical carrier hi...