Experimental Study of Twin Bamboo Concrete Composite Column under Laterally Restrained Pure Axial Loading

Bamboo has a huge potential to be used under affordable housing. The beauty about bamboo is that it has an inherent negative carbon foot print in its natural round form. This ability can aid in developing a nearly zero carbon foot print construction using round bamboo. Also, it has been observed in India that the traditional constructions of houses are with bamboo used as a load distributor and not as a main load bearing element. The key to...