What is Bamboo?
Bamboo is a tree-like member of the Poaceae family. It is one of the fastest-growing plants in the world, due to a unique rhizome-dependent system. There are over 1,000 different species of bamboo in existence. Certain species of bamboo can grow 910 mm within a 24-hour period, at a rate of almost 40 mm an hour (equivalent to 1 mm every 90 seconds).
Bamboo Sustainable
Bamboo is a highly sustainable plant. It is easy to grow, fast growing, and fertilizers are all but unnecessary. Bamboo, a sustainable natural material, is the best substitution to natural wood and other building materials.
Bamboo Production
Carbonization bamboo material become used in construction generally, it is to place bamboo chips in a high temperature, high humidity, and high-pressure environment to decompose and denature the organic compounds in the bamboo, such as sugar, starch, protein, and to kill bacteria. Due to the coking of bamboo fiber, the surface hardness of bamboo is increased, but the flexibility of bamboo is reduced.
Bamboo Properties
Bamboo is light weight, flexible, tough, high tensile, competitive price than the other building materials. It can produce become carbonization bamboo used in various building works the structures are flexible, earthquake resistant and friendly environment. Bamboo can be used as reinforcement in various structural members.
