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Textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC) is a prefabricated novel lightweight high-performance composite material that can be used as a load-bearing or non-load-bearing component of prefabricated buildings. Making TRC with Ultra-High-Strength Concrete (UHSC) (≥100 MPa) can be considered as a potential improvement method to further enhance its properties. This paper investigated the performance of Ultra-High-Strength Textile Reinforced Concrete (UHSTRC) under flexural loading. A detailed experimental program was conducted to investigate the behavior of UHSC on TRC. In the experimental program, a sudden drop in load was observed when the first crack appeared in the UHSTRC. A detailed analytical program was developed to describe and understand such behavior of UHSTRC found in experiments. The analytical program was found to be in good agreement with the experimental results and it was used to carry out an extensive parametric study covering the effects of the number of textile layers, textile material, textile mesh density, and UHSTRC thickness on the performance of UHSTRC. Using a high number of textile layers in thin UHSTRC was found to be more effective than using high-thickness UHSTRC. The high modulus textile layers effectively increase the performance of UHSTRC.

Glass transition temperature (Tg) of the steel/epoxy/CFRP composite bond can affect the service and fire performance of the system. Two test series were conducted to evaluate the Tg of the pure epoxy adhesive and the steel/epoxy/CFRP bond. A total of twenty-six double strap joints and pure epoxy adhesive samples were prepared under different curing conditions to check the Tg of bond. Six different curing conditions were used. The test results revealed that the elevated temperature curing has a significant affect on the Tg of steel/epoxy/CFRP bond and pure epoxy adhesive. A considerable improvement of Tg was noted in the joint with elevated temperature curing when compare with the epoxy adhesive samples cured under the samecondition. The strength degradation of the bond for a certain temperature exposure is also reduced with increased Tg of the joint.