Bamboo Fiber Reinforced Concrete Composites
The construction industry in most countries is considered to be the main consumer of energy and materials. Many research attempts concentrate on the use of renewable and sustainable materials in this area in an effort to ensure future generation sustainab
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Abstract The construction industry in most countries is considered to be the main consumer of energy and materials. Many research attempts concentrate on the use of renewable and sustainable materials in this area in an effort to ensure future generation sustainability. Because of higher steel costs and non-renewability, efforts are now being made to provide a sustainable low-cost alternative through the use of naturally available material. This increases construction prices exponentially and also damages the environment by producing large quantities of greenhouse gases. And, in the future, cheap and affordable infrastructure needs to be developed based on the bio-friendly building materials. A series of observational experiments, test the feasibility of using bamboo as concrete reinforcement. The reinforced bamboo can significantly strengthen the mortar and reduce the overall weight of the laminate due to its high strength to weight ratio. This chapter examined the potential for structural applications of bamboo fiber enhanced composites. Keywords Bamboo fiber · Concrete composites · Pulping · Biodegradability · Durability
1 Introduction The choice of products in this period of industrialization is based primarily on the cost and form of facility used for production or storage. Industrialized products, including ordinary cement and steel, find applications in all industries and the world a road leads to. Advanced materials such as synthetic polymers, fibers and alloys have been developed in the second half of the twentieth century. For the construction of load bearing buildings, reinforced concrete is mostly used in steel. Concrete is M. Ramesh (B) · A. Ravanan Department of Mechanical Engineering, KIT-Kalaignarkarunanidhi Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India e-mail: [email protected] C. Deepa Department of Computer Science and Engineering, KIT-Kalaignarkarunanidhi Institute of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021 M. Jawaid et al. (eds.), Bamboo Fiber Composites, Composites Science and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8489-3_8
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often reinforced with steel bars to increase the carrying capacity of its low tensile load. Nonetheless, due to higher steel prices and non-renewability, attempts are now being made to provide a sustainable alternative at low cost through the use of locally available materials [1]. Several scientists are therefore making attempts to provide a low-cost, renewable steel alternative. Several scientists have been exploring the possibility of using plant fibers as structural materials in concrete in this regard. Therefore, a low cost and renewable material such as bamboo, which apparently has some physical characteristics of metal, is considered. Bio-composites with natural fibres, low density, low cost, low energy consumption and CO2 neutralization [2, 3]. Among the natural fibers, due to its exceptional strength-to-weight ratio, particular attention should be paid to bamboo fibre, whi
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