Chaokun Hong1a,2, Haitao Li1a,2,*, Rodolfo Lorenzo3, Gang Wu1b, Ileana Corbi4, Ottavia Corbi4, Zhenhua Xiong5, Dong Yang1a,2, Huizhong Zhang1a,2
Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.7, No.8, pp. 713-730, 2019, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2019.07647
Abstract Bamboo is a green construction material in line with sustainable development strategies. The use of raw bamboo in architecture has existed since ancient times. In the long development years of original bamboo buildings, many areas in the world gradually formed unique bamboo buildings, which have become an important local cultural feature. For building structures, joints are the key to ensure structural load transfer. Because of hollow and thin-walled material property of bamboo, the connection in raw bamboo buildings has always been a major difficulty and problem in the application of bamboo, which seriously hinders the More >