文档介绍：Journal of King Saud University – Engineering Sciences 29 (2017) 301
pers are introduced.
3. poor construction practices; The low tensile capacity of concrete necessitates the use of a
4. increases in the design loads; and high tensile strength reinforcement to produce a viable structural
5. global climate change. system. In this regard, natural, low-carbon reinforcements such
as bamboo are promising and indeed require a second look. World
The latter is accelerating carbonation-induced corrosion as a produced over 400 million tons of high quality bamboo and apart
result of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, severe from their use as biomass, their use in structures is both promising
cracking due to increased thermal stresses, and extensive founda- and sensible. The papers in this Special Publication on bamboo
tion scour due to rising water levels. reinforcement are a testament to the potential of bamboo as frugal,
Concrete is literally a building block of communities and their natural reinforcement.
economic development, b