Paper Key : IRJ************885
Author: Deepak Aggarwal,Rahul Kumar,Mohd Shahabaj Khan,Laxmi Yadav,Nishant Kumar,Prashant Kumar
Date Published: 07 Jan 2025
Abstract
Traditionally, steel has been the primary material used for reinforcing concrete. However, due to issues related to cost and availability, there has been growing interest in exploring alternative materials for this purpose. One such alternative is bamboo, which, despite its widespread use as a construction material in developing countries, has seen limited application as a concrete reinforcement material due to various uncertainties. Bamboo, being a natural, low-cost, and abundantly available resource, presents a promising potential to replace steel in concrete reinforcement. This study aims to evaluate the viability of bamboo as a reinforcement material in concrete. To achieve this, tensile strength tests are conducted on bamboo sticks with three and five nodes, with varying cross-sectional shapes. Additionally, flexural strength tests are performed on bamboo-reinforced concrete beams to assess the materials performance in concrete applications. In these tests, singly and doubly reinforced bamboo beams (750 mm in length, 150 mm in width, and depth) are compared to plain concrete beams to evaluate their relative strength and behavior under stress.
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