Structural shear tie connector for sandwiched insulated concrete and sandwiched insulated concrete walls/panels

A shear tie connector for use with a concrete and insulation composite panel, the shear tie connector comprising:

• two structural shear-resisting parts forming a first connector loop and a second connector loop, each of the first connector loop and the second connector loop having a closed-loop parallelogram shape;
• the two structural shear-resisting parts comprising a plurality of wetted and wiped fiber strands wound about a mandrel to form the first connector loop and the second connector loop, each having the closed-loop parallelogram shape comprising a plurality of fiber-strand layers with each fiber-strand having a width and a height, and the plurality of fiber strand layers forming a stack of layers into a parallelogram configuration, the fiber strands comprised of graphite tow, synthetic polymer yarn, and fiberglass material suitable for use in an insulated structural concrete panel;
• the first connector loop and the second connector loop each comprising thermally non-conductive fibers in a binder to form a matrix, each of the first connector loop and the second connector loop having first and second opposing elongated sides and parallel sides, and first and second opposing and parallel short ends, the first connector loop and the second connector loop further having curved corners comprising first and second acute curved angles at two first opposing corners and first and second obtuse curved angles at two second opposing corners;
• two non-structural shape-retaining gussets formed of resin, the first connector loop and the second connector loop joined by the gussets extending between the first connector loop and the second connector loop;
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• a plurality of stand-off positioning tabs attached to ends of the first connector loop and the second connector loop, respectively, the plurality of stand-off positioning tabs sized to facilitate arrangement of the shear tie connector in the concrete and composite insulation panel;
• wherein the first connector loop and the second connector loop are inclined relative to each other in the same plane in a V-configuration with the first connector loop and the second connector loop being mirror images of each other about an axis of symmetry located between the first and second connector loops.