Experimental verification of bamboo-concrete composite column with ferro-cement bond

This paper presents the initial experimental verification of one of the structural forms-column-using four thin bamboos of dendrocalamus strictus, for taking the axial load with Ferro-Cement Bands as ties. In a test structure the column is 1.4 m high and has the ferro-cement band ties at the top, middle and bottom. The uniaxial compression testing is done in a UTM machine to study its behavior. The maximum load carried and the mode of failure is reported. This is potentially a cost effective design of a bamboo column, which can be mass produced with minimal resources requiring only marginally skilled labour. We suggest the name 'BAMCRETE' for such bamboo concrete composites.