To take care of the tensile strength steel is commonly used reinforcing material. But because of cost and availability, replacement of steel with some other suitable materials as reinforcement is now a major concern. Though bamboo has been used, which is fast growing and ecologically friendly material for structural applications is being considered as quite appropriate. It is a natural, cheap and also readily available material and also good in tension. This paper presents to study the effect of replacement of steel reinforcement by bamboo reinforcement and replacing 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 50% volume of sand by crumb rubber as fine aggregate replacement.
A bending test was performed on conventional concrete and Bamboo reinforced members. This work investigated the the experimental analysis of two simply- supported bamboo-reinforced lightweight concrete beams with an overall length of 500mm and a cross-section of 100 mm by 100 mm width and height, respectively, subjected to two point loads up to collapse are presented. Beams were casted using design mix (M20, M30) as per IS code.The load-deformation curves were drawn, on beams.From these experimental works, the possibility of effective using of ‘Bamboo' is discussed.
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