Behaviour of concrete reinforced with jute, coir and bamboo fibres

Experimental investigations on bond strength between coconut fibre and concrete

“…Usually, the brown fibres are used in engineering applications to reinforce different composites [5,6]. It has the potential to be used as a concrete reinforcement material [7]. Coconut fibres have the highest toughness compared to that of other natural fibres as reported by Munawar et al [8] for fibre bundles and Satyanarayana et al [9] for single fibre.…”

“…A considerable amount of work has been done to improve fibre surfaces for increasing the bond strength with the surrounding matrix. These pre-treatments can be achieved by physical and chemical modifications of fibre surfaces [5,7,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21]23,24]. An easy-to-use and cheap chemical adopted by some researchers was sodium hydroxide for treating coconut fibres [5,7,17,23].…”

Properties of hemp fibre reinforced concrete composites

“…Natural fibres like jute, coir, bamboo and sisal have already been used as reinforcement materials in cement matrices for many years, especially in developing countries [1][2][3] . However, there are several drawbacks in using natural fibres as concrete reinforcement materials.…”

Bamboo Fiber Processing, Properties, and Applications

“…Impact strength of bamboo fi ber concretes is distinctly higher (Ramaswamy et al 1983 ). The impact strength of steam exploded bamboo fi ber fi laments is very high (Tokoro et al 2008 ).…”