The potential of advanced textiles for fabric formwork

Proceedings of Institution of Civil Engineers: Construction Materials

Volumn 166, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 229-237

  Brennan, Julie ^a   Pedreschi, Remo ^b   Walker, Pete ^c   Ansell, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concrete technology manufacture; Geotextiles; Membranes geogrids

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPIC PROPERTY; COMMERCIAL OFF THE SHELVES; CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY; CONSTRUCTION METHOD; CONTAINMENT STRUCTURES; GEOGRIDS; STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE; WOVEN REINFORCEMENTS;

CONCRETES; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; GEOTEXTILES; MANUFACTURE; REINFORCEMENT; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TEXTILES;

WEAVING;

EID: 84884991124     PISSN: 1747650X     EISSN: 17476518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/coma.12.00052     Document Type: Article

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