ch. 1. Cement-based composites : a case for sustainable construction -- ch. 2. Historical aspects of conventional fiber reinforced concrete systems -- ch. 3. Ductile cement composite systems -- ch. 4. Textile reinforcement in composite materials -- ch. 5. Single yarns in woven textiles : characterization of geometry and length effects -- ch. 6. Introduction to mechanics of composite materials -- ch. 7. Mechanical testing and characteristic responses -- ch. 8. Fiber pullout and interfacial characterization -- ch. 9. Fracture process in quasi-brittle materials -- ch. 10. Tensile response of continuous and cross-ply composites -- ch. 11. Inelastic analysis of cement composites using laminate theory -- ch. 12. Tensile and flexural properties of hybrid cement composites -- ch. 13. Correlation of distributed damage with stiffness degradation mechanisms -- ch. 14. Flexural model for strain-softening and strain-hardening composites -- ch. 15. Back-calculation procedures of material properties from flexural tests -- ch. 16. Modeling of fiber reinforced materials using finite element method -- ch. 17. Flexural design of strain-softening fiber reinforced concrete -- ch. 18. Fiber reinforced aerated concrete -- ch. 19. Sisal fiber reinforced composites -- ch. 20. Restrained shrinkage cracking -- ch. 21. Flexural impact test -- ch. 22. Textile composites for repair and retrofit -- ch. 23. Retrofit of reinforced concrete beam-column joints using textile cement composites -- ch. 24. Dynamic tensile characteristics of textile cement composites.