Building with Bamboo: A HandbookThis revised handbook brings together the practical experiences of engineers in the field and of research programmes testing bamboo. The author shows how bamboo can be harvested, seasoned and jointed to form walls, doors and windows, roofs, floors, ceilings, roof trusses and bridges, and how to weave bamboo. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Harvesting and preservation | 4 |
Mechanical and economic considerations | 12 |
Copyright | |
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Common terms and phrases
allowable stress Bamboo bridge bamboo culm bamboo houses bamboo mats bamboo plantations Bamboo Project bamboo reinforcement bamboo roof bamboo strips bamboo structure bamboo trusses beam bending bitumen boron Boucherie braces building with bamboo calculate ceiling cent centre Chapter clump column concrete construction Costa Rica CRNBP cross-section dead load deformation developed diagonal Dieldrin distance earthquake economic Eindhoven example fibres fire Flattened bamboos floor covering frame girders guadua handbook internodes Janssen joists keep lashed lath length material mechanical properties method metres millimetres modulus moment of inertia N/mm N/mm² nailed nodes open ends open tank outer diameter pins plaster plybamboo plywood preservative problem properties of bamboo purlins reinforcement Bamboo result roofing sheets shown in Figure Sliding plane small bamboos soil split bamboo steel bolt steel reinforcement strength tensile stress termites timber treat bamboo trough Upper member vertical piles Wattle-and-daub wind suction wood woven bamboo Young's modulus
References to this book
The California Landscape Garden: Ecology, Culture, and Design Mark Francis,Andreas Reimann Limited preview - 1999 |