TY  - JOUR
T1  - Preleminary Study on Foam Concrete Infill Bamboo as Construction Materials
AU - Azani Yahya, Muhamad AU - Alias Yusof, Mohammed 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 16
SP  - 4063
EP  - 4067
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2017.4063.4067
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2017.4063.4067
KW  - Foam concrete
KW  -Bamboo
KW  -construction material
KW  -comparison
KW  -sustainability
KW  -optimum
AB  - The modification of building materials from locally available raw materials such as agricultural, forest
and industrial wastes can contribute to the solution of environmental issue such as logging. One of the
suggested materials to replace the uses of timber as the construction materials is Bamboo. This study, is a
preliminary study of Foam Concrete Infill Bamboo (FCIB) as a modification on raw Bamboo with infill using foam
concrete to be used as the replacement for timber usage in construction. The study is included compression
strength, flexural strength, tensile splitting strength and nailing test of the FCIB and raw Bamboo as the control
sample. In the nailing test, the pullout strength of the nail where investigates in order to recognize the usage
of nail for joining purposes. The design mix of foam concrete was adopted from the existing research that has
an optimum weight to the strength ratio. The density of foam concrete is in the range of 700-1000 kg/m<sup>3</sup>. In
addition, in this research the failure pattern for each test was being analyzed and discussed. Comparison
between control sample and research sample were done in order to know the difference and its sustainability.
ER  -