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Abstract

We have proposed a new textile reinforcement which was made from non-corrosive material (smart material: such as steel and glass). That will be effectively reduce the required concrete material, this technique which is called the Textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC). This paper presents a plate specimen with dimension of (500x500x400 mm), to demonstrate the effectiveness of our material we have tested under an impact load during 28 to 90 days with two different conditions simply support and fixed, respectively. Cement mortar with 60 MPa, 7 cm cube shape compressive strength for 28 days has been designed for the casting process of the plate. The reference plate (has 22 sub plates) which is divided into four categories were casted essentially with 3D glass fabric, all these groups have three different thickness (6,10, and 15 mm) indeed a 0.75 volume fraction of the micro steel and ferrocement that is known as mesh chicken wire layers. The simulation and the experimental results demonstrate that, the steel fibre gave higher quality results than the 3D glass fabric and mesh chicken wire, indeed we have proven that the 3D glass fabric with 6 mm gave higher number of blows than the other thicknesses.