Formal and functional analysis of building textiles used as building components, and their effect on building components performance

Today's designing concept is being formed by technological offerings, computer aided design algorithms along with variety, flexibility and freedom, received by innovative building materials. Technical textiles, composites, bio-, eco-, nano- , materials are among those innovative and advanced building materials which generate this diversification. It is being observed that, parallel with rapid developments on technical textiles field, geotextiles and building materials have gained variety and their application fields have increased.Expectations and directions of designers and users act as much part in this diversification as the results that have been achieved through research and development in material science, engineering and production technologies.This thesis is aimed on building textiles within technical textiles field. The objective of the research is examining the effects of building textiles on building components performance, through analysis of their formal and functional application areas in building components.Key words: Technical textile, glass fiber, carbon fiber, building component, building textiles, combustion, reinforcement, protection, insulation, filtration, containment, absorbsion, fiber optic, intelligent textiles