The Use of Bamboo and Reeds in Building ConstructionUN pub. Manual on the use of bamboo as building material in construction industry - physical aspects, geographical data, utilisation in housing (foundation, floor, wall, roof, windows and doors), types of species. Illustrations, photographs. |
Contents
Physical characteristics | 11 |
Preservative treatment against insects rot and fire | 19 |
BAMBOO AND REED BUILDING COMPONENTS | 28 |
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Arundinaria Assam bamboo and reed bamboo boards bamboo culms bamboo frame bamboo matting bamboo reinforcement bamboo splints Bambu Bambusa beams beetles Boucherie process building construction building material building with bamboo Buloh cent Chu Chinese clump coat concrete members cracks cultivated deflection Dehra Dun Dendrocalamus developed diameter diaphragms Dieldrin durable East Pakistan emulsion fibres Figure flowering Forest Research Institute Gigantochloa green bamboos Guadua hardwood horizontal member houses increase India Indonesia insects internodes Joints kg/cm Khasia lashed lath length Lepcha load capacity longitudinal method Modified boucherie moisture content Nepal nodes pentachlorophenol Phai Philippines Phragmites plaited plaster preservative Pressure process purlins reed boards reed slabs roof Schizostachyum Siamese sodium dichromate species of bamboo split bamboo steel stems storage strength of bamboo strips structure suitable surface tensile strength tensile stress Thailand thatch thickness thin-walled timber treated bamboo treatment trusses walls wattle wattle and daub whole culms wire wood