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Review on Fabrication of Bamboo Composite Materials Reinforced Concrete
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of science and technolgy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2456-5660
DOI - 10.46243/jst.2020.v5.i3.pp258-279
Subject(s) - bamboo , reinforcement , work (physics) , materials science , composite material , engineering , mechanical engineering
In most developing countries, steel as a reinforcing material in construction is increasing day by day. Butdepending on cost and availability, it is therefore necessary to replace the steel with some other suitable materials. There's asituation where production isn't found to be sufficient to meet steel demand. Hence, having an alternative that is worthcompared to steel is essential. Bamboo is one of the alternate materials used as a steel replacement in the construction ofsmall structures and low-cost housing, particularly in countries like India. Bamboo is found in abundance, they are durable,and they can satisfy the demand as a reinforcing material and become a perfect substitute for steels. Compared with othermaterials including steel, the tensile resistance property which is the main requirement of reinforcing material is consideredappreciable for bamboo. This property is given out from its origin through the bamboo structure. When in natural habitat,the hollow tubular structure has a high resistance to wind forces. Working on bamboo's weak points and bringing up bambooinnovation as a replacement for structural steel would be a great alternative. The goal of this present work to carry out aliterature survey to determine the feasibility of bamboo reinforcement for a concrete structure. The mechanical propertiesand behaviour of steel-reinforced concrete have been extensively studied and well documented, there is no detailed dataexplaining reinforced concrete from bamboo exists. Therefore, the aim of this study is to provide a preliminary contributiontoward the collection of literature to know the state of art characteristics such as mechanical properties and behaviours ofbamboo reinforced concrete, with a view to solving specific problems of low-cost housing