Authors : Ranendra Nath Bhowmik, Joyanta Pal and Partha Pratim Sarkar
Abstract: Concrete is extensively used construction material in our planet which is quite strong in compression but weak in tension. So, extra reinforcement is required to make it properly utilizable. The tensile strength of bamboo is sufficiently high for using it as reinforcing material. This type of concrete is termed as Bamboo Reinforced Concrete (BRC). Hence, in this study an effort has been made to utilize a type of bamboo named Bambusa balcooa as reinforcing material for making concrete beam. Thereafter, a 3D numerical model of bamboo reinforced concrete beam has been created using ABAQUS which uses concrete damage plasticity approach to find the ultimate load carrying capacity of bamboo reinforced beam at different percentage of bamboo reinforcement viz. 0, 0.73, 1 and 2%. Results show that the ultimate load carrying capacity have been increased by almost 4 times using 2% bamboo reinforcement compare to plain concrete. Experimental values obtained from the similar studies are compared with the ABAQUS results and comparison showed a similar trend of increasing ultimate load carrying capacity with up to 2% bamboo reinforcement.
Ranendra Nath Bhowmik, Joyanta Pal and Partha Pratim Sarkar, 2018. A Study on Bamboo Reinforced Concrete Beam Using Numerical Modeling and Comparison with the Experimental Data. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 13: 3267-3272.