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A Review on Natural Fibre Reinforced Composite Under UV Concentration for Aircraft Application
Published in Mohamed Thariq Hameed Sultan, Murugan Rajesh, Kandasamy Jayakrishna, Repair of Advanced Composites for Aerospace Applications, 2022
Syed Noor Hussain bin Mohamed Hasanuthin, A Hamdan, A R Irfan, Mohammad Sukri Mustapa, Mohamad Norani Mansor
Bamboo (Bambusoideae subfamily) is a Poaceae family subfamily of tall tree-like grasses with over 115 genera and 1,400 species. Bamboos are usually fast-growing perennials, in some cases growing up to 30 cm per day. Culms are woody ringed roots that are hollow between rings (nodes) and appear in clusters of thick rhizomes (underground stem). Bamboo culms can grow from 10 to 15 cm in the smallest species to more than 40 metres in the tallest. Though narrow leaves appear directly from the stem rings on young culms, mature culms often sprout horizontal leaf-bearing branches. Bamboo jointed stems may be used for a variety of purposes; the larger stems are used to make planks for houses and rafts, while both large and small stems are used to make scaffolding for construction sites (Venkateshwar Reddy et al. 2020). Interestingly, the bamboo fibre has potential to reinforce composite material (Hojo et al. 2014)
Bamboo for Carbon Neutral Development
Published in Yan Xiao, Engineered Bamboo Structures, 2022
The merits of using bamboo as a basic structural material are quite apparent. First, bamboo as a natural resource is widely available in many parts of the world. Bamboo is essentially a kind of large grass, often nicknamed as giant grass, growing faster than most trees. Bamboo usually grows for about four years and can then be cut down and regenerated. Second, bamboo has good mechanical properties and is easy to process. Third, but certainly not last, the processing and manufacturing of bamboo has no substantial adverse impact on the environment. It basically can be processed without pollution and meets the requirements of sustainable development. Therefore, the development of modern structures with bamboo as the main structural material can effectively increase the added value of bamboo, increase the income of people in the bamboo growing areas, and promote sustainable development in the construction industry, which accounts for about 40% of carbon dioxide output.
Thermo Polymer Matrix–Based Natural Fiber Composite
Published in Shishir Sinha, G. L. Devnani, Natural Fiber Composites, 2022
Manan Tyagi, G. L. Devnani, Raj Verma
Bamboo is also known as a natural glass fiber because of its good tensile strength. It is often used in place of steel directly when there is a need for tensile strength (Muhammad et al., 2019). It has over 1,000 species with different properties that depend upon the various geographical conditions like temperature, moisture of soil, and habitat. This bast fiber can grow as fast as 3 cm per hour. Bamboo length can reach up to 40 m. Bamboo fiber is extracted from plants by various mechanical or chemical or both methods. In general, steam explosion is considered to be the best method for extraction of fiber from plants, as it has high specific strength and reinforced composites used in automotive, protection, aerospace, and leisure applications (A. U. M. Shah et al., 2016).
Bamboo as a sustainable construction material for residential buildings in the cold and severe cold regions of China
Published in Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 2023
Bolun Zhao, Yang Yu, Yitong Xu, Haibo Guo
Bamboo has the advantages of being green, with energy saving and emission reduction properties, and high-speed regeneration, so it is very widely used (Shu et al., 2020). In particular, bamboo is a promising choice for construction, since it has a tensile strength almost equal to that of steel and twice the compressive strength of concrete (Yadav & Mathur, 2021). There are many species of bamboo suitable for application in building structures such as Guadua Angustifolia Kunth, Dendrocalamus asper, Phyllostachys Edulis, and Bambusa Blumeana (Trujillo & López, 2020). According to the literature review, the advantages of bamboo compared to relevant construction materials can be summarized as follows. (1) Bamboo has better thermal properties than conventional construction materials such as reinforced concrete, and it has high transport and heat storage properties (Huang, Sun, & Musso, 2018). (2) Bamboo has a shorter growth cycle and better carbon sequestration potential than timber (Xu, Xu, Zhu, Li, & Xiong, 2022). (3) Compared with other low-cost bio-based materials such as straw bales, bamboo has better mechanical properties and more advanced production technology. Therefore, there is great scope for bamboo in the construction industry(Borowski, Patuk, & Bandala, 2022).
Identification of factors on the possibility of bamboo as a scaffolding and a formwork material in Ethiopia
Published in Cogent Engineering, 2022
Ermias A. Amede, Ezra K. Hailemariam, Leule M. Hailemariam, Denamo A. Nuramo
Bamboo is a tough, fast-growing, and long-lasting material. It can be an aesthetically beautiful and low-cost alternative to more traditional materials in modern times. Despite the literature’s recognition of bamboo’s great potential as a resilient, sustainable scaffolding and formwork material for structural element design, its use in Ethiopia remains untapped. This is mostly owing to the scarcity of globally applicable standards and rules to guide or aid in the development of joinery techniques and elements. As a result, bamboo’s use as a scaffolding and formwork material was mostly based on established practical traditions, forefathers’ intuitions, and engineering knowledge. The purpose of this article is to identify and consider road maps and methods for using bamboo as scaffolding and formwork materials.
Design concepts for the integration of bamboo in contemporary vernacular architecture
Published in Architectural Engineering and Design Management, 2019
The increasing global attention to the limited resources has led to attempts to focus on the potential impact of sustainable development goals in the construction industry. Selection of building materials that have minimum environmental impacts represents a key strategy in achieving sustainable building objectives. In this context, bamboo is a renewable, low cost, and environment enhancing resource with great potential to improve sustainable development goals (Adhikari, Wood, & Sudak, 2015). The environmental properties of bamboo (e.g. high durability, local availability, easy fabrication, multi-purpose usage) make it a remarkable material to meet a wide range of sustainable development objectives (Nguyen, Tran, Tran, & Reiter, 2011). Bamboo grows quickly and is the fastest-growing and most versatile plant on earth (Liese & Michael, 2015). Furthermore, it is relatively lightweight and can be easily harvested and transported. Sustainable development has resource efficiency/ environmental stewardship, social justice and economic components. Developing a bamboo-based building material value chain can contribute to the realization of these outcomes.