Engineered bamboo for structural applications

Bamboo is a rapidly renewable material that has many applications in construction. Engineered bamboo products result from processing the raw bamboo culm into a laminated composite, similar to glue-laminated timber products. These products allow the material to be used in standardised sections and have less inherent variability than the natural material. The present work investigates the mechanical properties of two types of commercially available products – bamboo scrimber and laminated bamboo sheets – and compares these to timber and engineered timber products. It is shown that engineered bamboo products have properties that are comparable to or surpass that of timber and timber-based products. Potential…

• MI
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• UO
  University of Cambridge
• UO
  University of British Columbia
• EA
  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

  Award: EP/K023403/1