ACI SP-146-94

Since the use of asbestos fibers is totally banned in the industrialized countries and discouraged in almost all countries, a large number of re-searchers around the world are working to obtain a replacement. Various forms of fabrics, meshes, and discrete fibers made of metal, mineral, polymeric, and naturally occurring materials have been investigated. Ten papers cover the areas of tensile and bending behavior of micro-fiber reinforced composites, a state-of-the-art review of the synthetic fiber used in thin sheet products, statistical evaluation of physical properties, mathematical models, etc,.