Thin Reinforced Cement-Based Products and Construction Systems

This publication contains the papers originally presented in a symposium on the topic of thin reinforced cementitious products organized by ACI Committee 549, Thin Reinforced Cementitious Products and Ferrocement, during the ACI 2003 Spring Convention held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The symposium explored current state-of-the-art and recent advances in material science, manufacturing methods, and practical applications of thin reinforced cementitious products.

The topics covered in this publication include material science of textile reinforced concrete, use of textile reinforced concrete for integrated formwork and exterior cladding panels, prestressed thin-sheet concrete products, ultra-high-performance thin precast concrete products, production of concrete tubes by centrifugation method, freezing-and-thawing durability of commercial fiber-reinforced cement boards, structural evaluation of cement-skin sandwich building systems, microwave accelerated curing method for producing precast cementitious products, history of glass fiber-reinforced concrete (GFRC) products, and modeling of cement-based laminate composites.