Agrotechnology

Bamboo - A building material for construction

10^th International Conference on AGRICULTURE & HORTICULTURE

October 02-04, 2017 London, UK

Latha M S

Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering, India

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Agrotechnology

Abstract:

Concrete and steel are the most widely used construction materials in the world. The concrete has high compressive strength but low tensile strength. Therefore, steel is used to reinforce the concrete. Steel has a very high tensile strength as compared to concrete, but there are certain problems associated with it. Some of these problems are high production cost, large energy consumption during its production; it is a non-renewable resource and large amount of carbon emission during its production. The urge to overcome these problems without the tensile capacity of reinforced concrete being compromised, has prompted numerous scientists and engineers to seek out locally sourced materials as a replacement for conventional steel reinforcement. Specifically bamboo is one of the most suitable materials that may be used as reinforcing bar in concrete. This project work assessed the suitability of bamboo as reinforcement in concrete. In this project, size of beams selected is 230x 300 x 2000 mm. treated bamboo reinforced concrete (TBRC) beam and steel reinforced concrete (SRC) beam was casted for each size of beam and they were tested on loading frame machine. The compare of the results for the bamboo reinforced beam and steel reinforced beam shows that the load was varying from the percentage of bamboo and steel. Hence, it can be recommended to use bamboo reinforced concrete beam for light load bearing structures like beam, plinth beam and slab for small panel. Also, it may be used for temporary structure.