Bamboo Concrete Bond Strength

Abstract

Bamboo reinforced concrete is expected to be an alternative to steel reinforced concrete as a building material. Steel, when used for construction activities, is energy intensive and causes pollution. In this context, the use of bamboo, which is a fast growing, affordable and ecologically friendly solution; especially in a tropical country like India, is being considered as a suitable material for structural applications. It is potentially superior to steel in terms of its weight to strength ratio. However, the bond strength is a major concern for the bamboo to be a reinforcement in structural composites. The goal of this paper is to investigate the bonding properties of a newly developed bamboo-reinforcement composite in concrete, through pull-out tests. Various coatings are applied to the bamboo to determine the different bonding behaviours between the concrete and newly developed BRC. To improve the bonding at interfacial of bamboo concrete composite; easily applicable, adoptable and economical technology have been developed. The results of this study demonstrate that the bamboo-reinforcement composite develops adequate bonding with the concrete matrix with the hope that the newly developed material could contribute, on a large scale, to sustainable development.

Reinforced-concrete Bond with Brine and Olive Oil Mill Wastewater

“…The failure modes of all cylinders except for the reference or with brine wastewaters and for different diameters of reinforcement steel were similar (Figures 6-c and 9). The cracks were gradually observed and widened along with the distance of the steel rod inside the sample, which is (20 cm) until the sample failed or collapsed permanently, which is in line with such testing, clarification of the EC2-2004, RILEM -CEB RC6 (1983), and many researchers [26][27][28][29][30]. Experiments have indicated that the durability really decreases at a lower bond.…”

“…The specimens are cylinders measuring 150×300 cm of concrete, and a steel bar was poured into the center of the sample and tested according to the ASTM C900 -19. Samples with ratios of more than 15% were not used, and this is due to previous studies [29][30][31][32], which proved that the use of ratios greater than 15% leads to weak strength concrete on compression and bending.…”

Assessment of Compressive Strength for RC Building Using the Non-Destructive Test and the SonReb Method: A Case Study

“…Current Advances in Materials Applications II Vijay Wairagade et al, 2019 [22] carried out a rebound hammer test with the target of predicting on the mechanical properties of the concrete columns used in the college. A number of column specimens had been tested in order to correlate the in-site concrete strengths resulted from rebound hammer method with the cubical strength resulted from the destructive method.…”