Performance of bamboo reinforced concrete masonry shear walls

In this study, the results from tests on a total of seven squat concrete masonry walls under quasi-static, in-plane, cyclic loading are reported. One wall was reinforced with conventional steel reinforcement vertically and horizontally in bond beams. The other walls were reinforced with varying amounts of Tonkin cane bamboo reinforcement both vertically and horizontally in bond beams. The performance of the walls is presented in this paper...