Bamboo as a Building Material Seminar PPT & Pdf Report

Bamboo as a Building Material Seminar :-

General Uses :

1. Creating a flack line in traditional forests-due to the huge content of silica.
2. The shoots are edible.
3. Building and construction.
4. Small scale and cottage industries, for handicrafts and other products.
5. New generation products as wood substitutes.
6. Industrial products.

Properties :

1. Tensile strength
2. Compressive strength
3. Elastic modulus
4. An isotropic properties
5. Shrinkage
6. Fire resistance

Advantages of Bamboo :

• Light, strong and versatile.
• Light, strong, versatile.
• Environment friendly.
• Accessible to the poor.
• Self renewing resource
• Fast growing.
• Highly productive.

Disadvantages of Bamboo :

The major disadvantages of bamboo are as follows:

• Requires preservation
• Shaped by nature
• Jointing- although many jointing techniques exist, their structural efficiency is low.
• Lack of design guidance and codes.
• Prone to catch fire very fast by the friction mid the fuels during wind, and is seen to cause forest fires.

Content of the Seminar and pdf report for Bamboo as a Building Material:

• INTRODUCTION
• GENERAL USES
• PROPERTIES
• THE WORKING OF BAMBOO
• PRESERVATION OF BAMBOO
• BAMBOO HOUSING
• ADVANTAGES
• DISADVANTAGES
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES