Woven fabrics with integrated prismatic shaped cavities for technical applications

3D woven fabrics can have a lot of advantages when used as reinforcement in for example composites or concrete elements. These new woven fabrics with integrated prismatic shaped cavities are produced in one single run eliminating a lot of manual labour and in the case of composites lead to an improved resistance against delamination. In this paper, these fabrics are used to produce composites and concrete elements which are subjected to three point bending tests. The first tests show promising results as well for the composites as for the concrete reinforcement.