Experimental Investigation on Flexural Strength of Bamboo Reinforced Concrete Beams

Day-to-day global warming issues lead to a challenge all over the World. To reduce global emissions, natural construction materials like bamboo as a reinforcement and other industrial by-products such as flyash, GGBS, etc., as cementitious materials in concrete may be used. Bamboo has been mostly used as a building material due to its low cost, flexibility, high strength, earthquake resistance, lightweight, availability and so on. The viability of using bamboo-reinforced concrete beams for rural and tribal construction is investigated in this study. Concrete beams reinforced with steel and bamboo both treated and untreated are casted and tested for flexural strength, deflection and fracture pattern. Finally, a comparison and analysis of the conventional steel-reinforced concrete beam over the treated and untreated bamboo-reinforced concrete beams is performed.