Abstract
The use of renewable, natural building materials like bamboo for wall construction has a great advantage over conventional non-green walling materials. The woven bamboo striped cement mortar plastered walling system or Bamcrete panel technology has a great prospect with its eco-friendly nature. For a long time, this has been traditionally adopted in north-eastern regions of India in the construction of ‘Assam type house’. But this wall technology is not been exposed in modern-day construction. It is important to emphasize this technology, hence this research study presents an experimental study of energy absorption characteristics of Bamcrete panel under the impact and monotonic loading conditions to highlight the possible improvement of the traditional Ekra wall of Assam type house based on different parametric variations in the fabrication of panels like framing options, type of bamboo species, panel weaving technique, and panel casting using different design mix mortar at different strengths were studied. The standard BS: 5234–2:1992 [1] was followed to carry out the small hard body impact test and static load test in the constructed Bamcrete partition panels. The variation of bamboo species does not affect significantly in the energy absorption capacity of Bamcrete panels and the impact resistance of panels increased significantly using design mix mortar compared to the traditional mason mix mortar.
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