Concrete with Bamboo Reinforcing 1923
CONCRETE REINFORCED WITH BAMBOO
Bamboo, which has been chemically treated, is used as a reinforcing for concrete in Japan and, we are told in Concrete (Detroit):
“According to Henry C. Hitchcock, the American consul, Nagasaki, Japan, the chemicals used in treating the bamboo are apparently known only to the few who have made use of them. Bamboo is occasionally used without any chemicals to protect it from decay, in the construction of concrete ditches, small culverts and the like in districts where there is a great deal of sulfur in the soil and sulfur gas in the air, for the reasons that it is believed that bamboo is not so quickly destroyed by the sulfur as ordinary reinforcing would be.”
Source: The Literary Digest for August 11, 1923
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