Bamboo-concrete Composite Slabs
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Guido Morgenthal
Hans-Georg Timmler |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | 18th IABSE Congress: Innovative Infrastructures – Towards Human Urbanism, Seoul, Korea, 19-21 September 2012 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Congress Seoul 2012 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 1057-1064 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 8 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137912805111492 | ||||
| Abstract: |
Bamboo is a natural material that is highly sustainable and has very favourable material properties, specifically high longitudinal strength and low density. This paper presents a new concept for the use of bamboo that specifically exploits its high tensile strength. Half-shells of bamboo rods are covered by concrete to form a composite beam or slab where the bamboo is used in tension and the concrete in compression. The paper discusses the main concepts, analyses, lab tests and possible applications of these novel elements. |
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| Keywords: |
concrete non-linear analysis experimental testing Bamboo composite slabs
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