Auxetic cementitious composites (ACCs) with excellent compressive ductility: Experiments and modeling

Auxetic cementitious composites (ACCs) with improved mechanical properties are created, by casting 3D printed polymeric auxetic reinforcement structures inside cementitious mortar. Four types of ACCs incorporating reinforcement with different auxetic mechanisms were prepared: “re-entrant” (RE), “rotating-square” (RS), “chiral” (CR) and ...

Cementitious composites reinforced with 3D printed functionally graded polymeric lattice structures: Experiments and modelling

Cementitious materials are widely used in construction. For their low ductility, they typically need to be reinforced by steel rebars, which cause potential corrosion problems. Polymeric reinforcement, which does not have corrosion problems, has been used to replace steel rebars. However, a relatively high reinforcing ratio is usually...

Compression Behaviors Of Cementitious Cellular Composites With Negative Poisson’s Ratio

Traditionally, mechanical properties of cementitious materials are designed<br/>“chemically”, namely by configuring their mix proportions. Owning to the development of 3D printing technology, “physical” tailoring the meso-structure of cementitious materials to design their mechanical properties becomes possible. In the present study,...