Bamboo as a building material RWTH Aachen （竹子作为建筑材料亚琛工业）.pdf

Bamboo as a building material Seite 1 von 16 Bamboo as a building material Introduction Building with bamboo looks back on an ancient tradition in the regions in which plant grows in abundance, such as South America, Africa and, in particular, in South-East- Asia. Bamboo is one of the oldest construction materials. Bamboo species Guadua angustifolia Bamboo as plant Botanical classification In 1778 Carl von Linné introduced the description bamboo into sience based on the indian word Mambu or Bambu. The family of the gramineae (grasses) incorporates the subfamily of the bamboos. The gramineae also comprise the rice, corn and sugar cane. There are existing 500 different species of bamboo with partial some hundred subspecies. The term bamboo describes all tree- or bushlike Several bamboo species grasses having a durable woody or branched stem. Th