Bamboo as a Reinforcement in Concrete

In a defense presentation of undergraduate students I came across an interesting project of final year students. It is a good step towards planning in civil engineering projects. They used bamboo as a reinforcement in concrete and compared its results with an ordinary reinforced concrete. Bamboo when properly seasoned gives sufficient stiffness and strength can be used as a roof shed in poor people lodgings. It grows 3.2 cm every month and can be available in any size and diameter as required. The students incorporated bamboo in concrete and conducted compressive strength, tensile strength, durability test and pull out test on the samples. Results showed adequate strength for the samples and it was concluded that bamboo is much more durable then steel although not much strengthened then steel reinforced concrete but can be used for single story construction and can be very economical for providing shelter to poor people in Pakistan.

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