jismart2019034: Mechanical Properties of Thai Structural Bamboo species for Sustainable Architecture of Tropics

Abstract

Southeast Asia region is the perfect climate that offers various vegetation. In current trends of architecture, people are searching for materials that can be sustainable. Bamboo is one kind that can offer the strength, the renewability, and accessibility. This research is aimed to focus on the bamboo in Thailand, which will be used in architecture. Bamboo in Architecture are fall in the construction type, which signifies the capacity of their strength, flexibility, ductility, and elasticity. With this character, Bamboo has become more popular used in modern-day architecture. Bamboo then is paid more attention as the economic value of Thailand’s products. This research then
is interested to study the mechanical properties of architecture bamboo species. There are many species of bamboo used in construction, but in architecture we only used some of them focused on their structural capacity. The research decided to choose five major species of Thai structural bamboo and one Japanese bamboo for the benchmark comparison. They are Dendrocalamus Asper (Pai Tong), Dendrocalamus Sericeus (Pai Sangmon), Bambusa Blumeana (Pai Seesuk), Bambusa Multiplex (Pai Liang), and Dendrocalamus Giganteus (Pai Yuk Nan), and lastly Phyllostachys Edulis (Japanese Moso). The research performs the structural testing using ISO-22157 to test their mechanical properties. It is found that D.Sericeus has the best performance in structure, and interestingly that D.Giganteus is less performed though it is the biggest bamboo. Lastly the findings of this research will assist architects to understand more of different kinds of bamboo structural species and use it correctly. At the end, this will promote more uses of bamboo as a material in sustainable architecture.