Design of green concrete based on bambusoideae

Abstract

Bamboo is a material that is considered a key component for sustainable construction due to its rapid reproduction and high resistance. This plant has great economic importance around the world. It has many uses ranging from the elaboration of objects such as musical instruments and furniture, to constructions and small structures. Other advantages make use of bamboo are that it is an element of cheap and economic construction in addition to the fact that generates many employs in growing areas and helps the recovery of natural spaces that favor biodiversity. In the ecological aspect bamboo is a plant that is not in danger of extinction nor is it globally threatened, these plants have a very extensive propagation and growth that causes that it is considered like undergrowth. This research seeks to design a concrete mixture that has a very strong resistance thanks to the properties of bamboo using it as aggregate in concrete, so that it can be implemented in various constructions to increase quality and resistance. All this is accomplished through a process of experimentation in which the mixture of concrete with bamboo that was designed is subjected to stress tests and compared to the resistance of the normal concrete to conclude if the proposal is functional With the strength obtained, adding 15% of bamboo as an aggregate, according to the Mexican Institute of Concrete and Cement (imcyc), the mixture of concrete with bamboo is functional for lightweight earthenware and concrete elements without structural requirements.