| Summary: | As a unique soil, peat soil has extreme characteristics such as very high
compressibility when any load applies to it. It has the condition of partially decomposed plant
and animal make it unsuitable used as a foundation for construction. Due to this, the
reinforcement of peat must be improved or stable. The stability of peat was more stable when
the reinforcement is held or tied with a strong material that can be used for the long term.
Therefore, this study to identify the deformation settlement of single-layer bamboo
Dendrocalamus asper that using as reinforcement for the peat. The testing at the laboratory and
physical model were conducted to fulfill the objective of the study which is to identify the
physical properties (water content, specific gravity, organic content, fiber content, degree of
decomposition), mechanical properties (consolidation test), and displacement of settlement
through physical modeling at the laboratory. The result shows that the soil collected at Kampung
Parit Puteri Menangis, Benut, Johor has a moisture content of 672%, specific gravityof 1.23,
organic content of 88.34 – 96.19%, fiber content of 38.1%, and categories H4 to H6 (Hemic).
The compression index (Cc) was determined in the range of 0.13 to 1.54, the consolidation
coefficient (Cv) was determined in the range of 0.62 to 4.925, while the coefficient of
compression (Cα) was determined in the range of 0.02 to 0.048. For the displacement of the
settlement of peat show the bamboo reinforcement reduce the settlement under different load.
The settlement decreased by 59% of the final load 4 kg/m2
during 2 hours in the displacement
9.543 mm to 3.867 mm. It is shown that the properties of peat react with the soil and began to
settle down slowly until the reading remained constant
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