Experimental Study on Bond Behavior of Glass Textile Mesh in Earth-Based Matrix

Abstract

The bond behavior between the textile and the earth-based matrix determined the reinforcement effectiveness of the composite systems. This paper presented a pull-out experimental study on the glass textile mesh reinforced earth-based matrix. The bond behavior was studied using different development length, mesh spacing size and matrix thickness, with a total of 32 experimental specimens. The test results showed that the peak pull-out force had increased by 31.7% and 40.5% with 200 mm and 300 mm versus 100 mm development length, respectively. The 16 mm compared to 10 mm matrix thickness specimens had a high strength improvement (9.73%) because the elevated thickness had increased the matrix strength. However, the 20 mm versus 10 mm mesh spacing size specimens had achieved a slight reduction (5.72%) due to the reduction in the number of textiles along the weft direction. The failure mode shifted from pulling out, compound modes (both pulling out and textile rupture) to textile rupture mainly accompanied by elevated development length. In addition, we discussed the applicability of the trilinear bond-slip model on the earth-based matrix and proposed a method based on the fracture energy concept for estimating the effective development length, which could provide a reference for future research.