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Color and Age – Employ bamboo having an evident brown color. This
shows the age of bamboo to be at least 3 years.
Diameter – Use the one with long large culms
Harvesting – Try to avoid those bamboos that are cut either during
spring or summer seasons.
Species – Among 1500 species of bamboo, the best one must checked,
tested to satisfy the requirement as a reinforcing material.
Material Properties of Bamboo for Reinforced
Concrete
Bamboo is by its origin an orthotropic material. It posses fibers
within it. It gains high strength along the fibers and low strength in
the transverse direction.
The bamboo has a structure of a composite material with cellulose
fibers aligned across the length. It has high thick fibers near to the
outer length of the bamboo, which is the main reason why they
resist huge wind forces.
Fig.1: Schematic Diagram of a Bamboo with centroid axis ‘Z’ and height ‘L’
Figure-1 shows a schematic diagram of a bamboo sample. The node
that is seen in the bamboo are represented by n. It is subjected to a
lateral load ‘p’ causing a maximum moment at the support. It forms
a cantilever arrangement.
2. Immersion process
3. By heating
4. Smoke Curing
Fig. A column steel reinforcement bars after 10 years exposed within a closer
area
Bamboo reinforcement is found more durable than steel if it has
undergone proper treatments.