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THE SEMINAR REPORT ON TOPIC

“Fabrication and Testing of Flat Bridge Truss made up of
Bamboo”

SUBMITTED TO

MIT ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING, ALANDI(D)

PUNE

SUBMITTED BY

SUBMITTED BY BLOCK 1 - ETX – BATCH 1

1. Mrudul Hirekhan SEE 12

2. Jayshree Choudhary SEE 33
3. Sagar Khasewar SEE 32
4. Sahil Kazi SEE 38
5. Sumit Suryawanshi SEE 16

Course - Civil Prototyping

Course Code- ET 206

Course Faculty
1. Mr Manish A. Khandare
2. Mr. Bhaskar D. Wabhitkar
3. Mr. Sitaram G. Suryawanshi
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SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
MIT ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING ALANDI (D)
PUNE

An Autonomous Institute

CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the Credit seminar report entitled “Fabrication and

testing of Flat Truss made up of bamboo" submitted by SUMIT

SURYAWANSHI, MRUDUL HIREKHAN, JAYSHREE CHOUDHRY,

SAHIL KAZI, SAGAR KHASEWAR of Electronics Engineering of MIT

Academy of Engineering is record of his own work carried out under my

supervision and guidance. The matter enclosed here is not been submitted

elsewhere for award of any degree or diploma.

Internal Examiner External Examiner

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We have great pleasure in submitting this seminar report on

“Fabrication and testing of Pratt Truss made up of Bamboo” .We will like to take this

opportunity to express our great gratitude towards our faculty Mr. Bhaskar

D.Wabhitkar for his encouragement , guidance and insight the work . we also

appreciate not only for his professional , timely and valuable advices ; but also for his

continuous schedule follow up and constructive criticism , supervision and valuable

comment during our work. We also thank Mr. Manish Khandare and Mr. Sitaram

Suryawanshi for their part in this project.

We also thank our workshop staff especially N.D Sutar Sir for their

valuable time in helping us for operating different machines and keeping all tools

available to us. We thank everyone who helped us in giving all possible suggestions

wherever possible.

1. Mrudul Hirekhan
2. Jayshree Choudhary
3. Sagar Khasewar
4. Sahil Kazi
5. Sumit Suryawanshi

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ABSTRACT

The cost required to construct civil structures has been a headache since it began in
this world. It is because natural nature of material used is directly proportional to the
strength of civil structures. However, the durability and stability are somewhat
creating the hindrance in the construction sector. Not only in Japan, but also in
Indonesia, Tonga and Fiji which are extremely seismic areas (earthquake prone areas),
the structures have to be light weight; this is where Bamboo comes into consideration.
Bamboo has the faster growing rate and is economically cheap to build a structure
with no doubt in its strength.
The building materials that are most commonly used in western world have already
been assessed environmentally using tool based on life cycle assessment
methodology. In this work fabrication analysis testing of Pratt truss has been done on
bamboo with different joints like bevel joint, fish mouth joint. The test results show
that nearly all bamboo trusses fail in joints and have to be modified.

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LIST OF SYMBOLS
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Table of Contents

Sr. No Chapter Name Page No.

CERTIFICATE ii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iii
ABSTRACT iv
LIST OF SYMBOLS 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS 2
1. INTRODUCTION 3
1.1 PROTOTYPE
1.2 BAMBOO 4
1.2.1 ADVANTAGES
1.2.2 DISADVANTAGES 5
1.2.3 APPLICATIONS
1.2.4 PARTS OF BAMBOO

2. PLANNING AND COST ESTIMATION 6

2.1 PLANNING
2.2 COST ESTIMATION 7

3. PRE-TEST ANALYSIS 8

4. COMPRESSION, TENSION AND JOINT TEST

4.1 COMPRESSION TEST 14
4.2 TENSION TEST 16
4.3 JOINT TENSION TEST 18

5. FABRICATION OF PRATT TRUSS BRIDGE 20

5.1 STEPS 20
5.2 FABRICATION OF JOINT 21
5.3 DIFFICULTY FACED 22

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6. TEST PREPARATION, TEST AND RESULT 23

6.1 TEST PREPARATION 23
6.2 TEST 23
6.2.1 SETUP 23
6.2.2 RESULT 24

7. FUTURE SCOPE 25

8. CONCLUSION 26

REFERENCES 27

GROUP PHOTO 28
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