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THE SEMINAR REPORT ON TOPIC
“Fabrication and testing of Baltimore truss made up of Bamboo”
SUBMITTED TO
MIT ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING, ALANDI(D)
PUNE
SUBMITTED BY
1) Omkar Rane SETB118
2) Sandhya Awari SETB116
3) Nikhil Khandelwal SETB103
4) Dipak Chaudhari SETB105
5) Rajavardhan Rishi SETB137
6) Pranav Waghmare SETB123
Course - Civil Prototyping
Course Code- ET 206
Course Faculty
Dr. Joshi Amrut Anant
2017-2018
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
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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 Pratt truss
bridge made up of bamboo submitted by
Omkar Rane SETB118
Sandhya Awari SETB116
Nikhil Khandelwal SETB103
Dipak Chaudhari SETB105
Rajavardhan Rishi SETB137
Pranav Waghmare SETB123
, of Electronics and Telecommunication 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 Bachelor of Technology degree.
Internal Examiner External examiner
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I would like to express my sincere thanks and gratitude to professor
Dr. Amrut Joshi Sir for his continuous and unfailing support, guidance and help, which have
been invaluable during the course of this project. His knowledge, insight and constant
motivation at each step of the project has been instrumental in its completion.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the entire staff at Structures Laboratory and the
Civil Engineering Laboratory for their cooperation and assistance in the lab-work that was
required for this project.
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ABSTRACT
The main objective of this project was to design bridge type structures using bamboo, and arrive
at the optimum design. For the structure, the design of base plate, inclined and top members,
and joints of the structure have been carried out. For the design of joints, the experimental
testing of bamboo joints has been carried out in the compression Testing Machine in the civil
engineering Laboratory. The manual analysis of the forces and moments has been carried out.
fabrication of the truss has been done by the completion of pretest analysis of bamboo joints.
The design details have been depicted with figures and labelled. Using compression testing
machine, a test has been carried out at a bridge truss. it holds a maximum compressive strength
of 5.3 KN, and then it breaks down.
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Table of Content
TOPICS PAGE
NO.
Certificate i
Acknowledgement iii
Abstract iv
List of Table vi
List Of figure vii
CHAPTER 1: Introduction 1
CHAPTER 2: Planning of Trussed Bridge 4
CHAPTER 3: Pre-Test Analysis 6
CHAPTER 4: Compression, Tension And Joint Test 9
CHAPTER 5: Fabrication Of Baltimore Truss Bridge 13
CHAPTER 6: Test Preparation, Test, Results And Discussing 15
CHAPTER 7: Conclusions 17
Reference 18
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LIST OF TABLES
Content of Table Table Number
Direct and Indirect cost 2.1
Labor cost 2.2
Transportation cost 2.3
Machine and tools hiring cost 2.4
Electricity cost based on machine usage. 2.5
Material cost analysis 2.6
Force analysis on each member 3.1
Type of forces 3.2
Dimensions of members 3.3
Compression test observations 4.1
Tensile testing observations 4.2
Joints testing observations 4.3
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LIST OF FIGURES
Content Figure Number
Baltimore truss 1.1
Tension and compression
members of Baltimore truss
1.2
Schematic diagram of Baltimore
truss
1.3
Tools used while making truss 2.1
Resolution of forces on truss
members.
3.1
Schematic diagram of Baltimore
truss.
3.2
Specimen of various sizes for
testing.
4.1
Specimen testing under
compression.
4.2
Specimen testing under bending
condition.
4.3
Specimen testing under tensile
conditions.
4.4
Tri axial machine setup. 4.5
Fish mouth bolted joints. 5.1
Bevel cut bolted joints. 5.2
Fabrication of Baltimore single
panel.
5.3
Baltimore truss bridge fabrication 5.4
Testing truss for verifying failure
prediction analysis.
6.1
