Engineering Bamboo – a Green Technical Alternative in A+U
02.06.2016
Hebel, Dirk E., Felix Heisel, Alireza Javadian, Mateusz Wielopolski, Simon Lee, Philipp Müller, Karsten Schlesier (2016). Engineering bamboo – a green economic alternative Part 2, in: a+u 549, Feature: RCR Arqitectes, 2016:06, Japan Architecture and Urbanism, Tokyo, Japan
At the Advanced Fibre Composite Laboratory in Singapore, a new mechanical processing for raw bamboo has been developed, which leads to a fibrous material with physical features that are mainly defined by the bamboo species.
This material is used as a natural fibre source for the production of a high-tensile fibre reinforced composite material aiming for the construction industry. Thereby, controlling the parameters of the underlying hot press fabrication process turned out to be crucial for a systematic tuning of the tensile capacities of the resulting composite materials.
Essay Series: Engineering Bamboo – a Green Economic Alternative Part 2 is published as a series by the Professorship of Architecture and Construction Dirk E. Hebel with A+U.
The two other essays in the series include:
Engineering Bamboo – A Green Economic Alternative Part 1
Engineering Bamboo – a Green Alternative under Basic Research Part 3