dc.contributor.author | Abuodha, Sylvester O | |
dc.contributor.author | Nyomboi, Timothy | |
dc.contributor.author | Ketter, Michael | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-12-11T14:13:00Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-12-11T14:13:00Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-10 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ketter, Michael, Timothy Nyomboi, and Sylvester O. Abuodha. "STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF LANDOLPHIA BUCHANANII CONCRETE BEAMS." | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/77327 | |
dc.description.abstract | The study sought to evaluate the performance of Landolphia buchananii concrete beams to establish the potential of
Landolphia buchananii as structural reinforcement of concrete in beams. Tensile strength test on Landolphia
buchananii was performed while flexural test was done on Landolphia buchananii reinforced beams and compared
with steel reinforced concrete beams. Beams of 1100 mm length having 150mm width and 250 mm depth were used
in the tests. Varying area of reinforcement of L.buchananii was used for beam specimens made of concrete of
average compressive strength of 21.8N/mm2. The steel reinforced beams were reinforced with standard 8mm High
strength twisted bar as a tensile reinforcement. The results showed that the ultimate load for the L.buchananii
reinforced beams was lower than that of control beams by about 65 % and therefore L. buchananii can only be used
under low loading regimes such as in low rise lintel beams with load bearing walls.
KEYWORDS: Landolphia buchanani, Tensile strengths, Flexural strength, Ultimate load, Deflection. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.title | Structural performance evaluation of landolphia buchananii concrete beams | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.type.material | en_US | en_US |