Abstract. The paper presents the last research on bamboo reinforced concrete in Brawijaya University Indonesia. Three kinds of structures studied in recent year, the mounting of pegs on reinforcement, the use of lightweight brick to reduce the weight of the beams, and the use the light weight aggregate for bamboo concrete composite frame. All that experiments overcome some problems exist in using bamboo as environmental acceptance structures.
The pull-out test is generally conducted to obtain accurately the carrying capacity of the flexural strength of the knit bamboo reinforced concrete beam, which is more determined by the bonding strength than the tensile strength of reinforcement in concrete. Bamboo bar with braid knit which was coated with sikadur as bonding agent based on selected epoxy resin was expected to improve a good friction with concrete. In the pull-out test method, a hydraulic jack was applied to encourage bamboo embedded into a pair of concrete blocks, whose size was 15cm x 30cm x 40cm. The experimental variable of specimens were types of knitted bamboo, and type of coating. Based on the test results, either the bond strength or the tensile strength, which was calculated based on the failure mechanism, increased with respect to the concrete quality. The compressive strength of concrete was averaged as much as 25,97 MPa. The usage of outer skin surface on the cutting braid knit bamboo (type 1), which was coated with sikadur experimentally could increase the pull-out load. In the pull-out test, bond failure occurred with using of the plain bamboo bar with the bond stress of 1.18 MPa, while tensile failure occurred with using of knit bar type 1 with peak tensile strength of 85.84 Mpa.
Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC) is an innovation in the technology of making concrete that does not require a compaction process to fill the formwork. In this study, recycled coarse aggregate (RCA) was used as constituent material in both normal and SCC concrete. The aggregate was obtained from ready mix concrete waste with the quality of K300-K350, which was crushed into a size of 5-10 mm (25%) and 10-20 mm (75%). Concrete was cast into concrete cylinders, size of 15x30 cm then treated and tested at 28 days. In SCC concrete, superplasticizer is used, but fly ash was not used in the concrete mixture. The compressive test results show that normal concrete has a higher compressive strength than self-compacted concrete. This is due to the high amount of coarse aggregate that used in normal concrete. The results are almost corresponding with modulus of elasticity.
Bamboo is an abundant material in Indonesia which has been previously studied as a construction material and reinforcement. The performance of concrete beam with knitted bamboo reinforcement are studied, especially on the flexural strength and crack behaviour. Three concrete beams with the dimension of 15 x 25 x 160 cm and three slices of bamboo in each knit are investigated. The outer skin surface of this knit is soaked NaOH with sikadur and sand as coating material. The results found that the flexural strength of concrete beam for the first and second model was 3.56 MPa and 6.15 MPa, respectively. Pure bending crack occurred on all concrete beam models.
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