BEHAVIOR OF REINFORCED CEMENT CONCRETE BEAM WITH BAMBOO AS PARTIAL REPLACEMENT FOR REINFORCEMENT

The haphazard infrastructural progress has lead to rapid destruction of the ecosystem. Steel, cement, synthetic polymers and metal alloys used for development movements are power severe which causes environmental pollution for the period of their whole life cycle. Bamboo is highly- yield renewable resources which can replace the steel reinforcement in concrete. Bamboo reduces 35% carbon dioxide in the climate and delivers more oxygen. The study of behavior of a Composite material that is Bamboo as a Replacement for Reinforcement in concrete is studied in this project. Mechanical properties of Bamboo are studied and basic testing like Water Absorption tests using two different coating, Compression test of bamboo are carried out. The method of partial replacement of steel, the bamboo culms is placed below the reinforcement in order to reduce the quantity of steel reinforcement in a beam element. A comparison is done between the Analytical Results obtained by Analysis of Bamboo Reinforced beams in ANSYS software to the experimental results. The percentage of water absorption in bamboo coating with polyester resin was 8.09%. By the Comparison of Ultimate Compressive Strength (N/ mm²) of Bamboo without Knots and of Bamboo with Knots, we conclude that bamboo without knots have more ultimate compressive strength than compared to bamboo with knots. The flexural strength of bamboo reinforced concrete with 8mm diameter bar was found to be 38MPa. Final cracking load of the bamboo reinforced beam element in ANSYS software is 26KN.