10 Superior Types of Bamboo as a Construction Material with MCDM …
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requires special care before it can be used in the construction sector. The bamboo
plant has 1,300 types, but not all can be used as a building material. A table showing
the types of bamboo that can be used in construction has been compiled for more
in-depth study.
10.1.1 Bamboo as a Plant
Depending on the genus, the growth of bamboo varies from 20 to 50 cm to 40 m.
It is one of the fastest-growing plants in the world and can grow up to 0.75 m
per day. Curly bamboo lianas reach up to 120 cm in length. The development of
bamboo can depend on climatic conditions, where the growth of tropical species of
bamboo may depend on the level of humidity, during the rainy season, the activity of
growth increases. Other groups of bamboo species are designed for subtropical and
temperate climate with cold or cool winters, and their growth activity is controlled
by seasonal conditions. In addition, if herbaceous bamboo grows exclusively in the
tropics, then some richer species of bamboo meet and feel good in the more northern
cold areas. In the eastern Andes, one can find bamboo Chusquea Aristata at an altitude
of 4700 m above sea level, which here form impenetrable thickets that meet up to the
snowboarder. In the Himalayas, at an altitude of 3800 m. Currently, Bambusa Metake
from Japan and several species of bamboo from China are perfectly acclimatized and
grow in Central Europe. Bamboo are monocarpic plants meaning that after flowering,
they perish. Bamboo flowering occurs very rarely every 60–130 years, after the whole
forest blooms, it comes to the doom of a bamboo grove (Janssen 2000).
10.1.2 Types of Bamboo and Their Feature Specifications
Bamboo (Bambusa) belongs to the same family as Cereals, and there are about 115
genera of bamboo and 1300 species. Almost all varieties of these plants come from
the Far East. Bamboo is an evergreen plant, that has a stiffened stalk, on which
lanceolate leaves and solitary flowers, or paniculate inflorescence, are located at the
top. Bamboo are monocarpic plants meaning that after flowering, they perish. The
bamboo trunk is a long natural “column”, comprised of a uniformly thick and dense
cylinder, with a smooth, siliceous, naturally polished surface (Panday and Suneel
2007). At regular intervals, it is interrupted by annular nodes, each interstitial site
being a completely isolated waterproof vessel. Its size and shape are highly diverse
in terms of the proportions and length of individual internodes, the thickness and
strength of partitions, in straightness, smoothness, and durability. Furthermore, some
bamboo heavy and other are light, and they have different wall thicknesses. Although
it is very strong, bamboo is at the same time elastic; in both and dry forms, it has no
specific smell or taste (Patel 2015).
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requires special care before it can be used in the construction sector. The bamboo
plant has 1,300 types, but not all can be used as a building material. A table showing
the types of bamboo that can be used in construction has been compiled for more
in-depth study.
10.1.1 Bamboo as a Plant
Depending on the genus, the growth of bamboo varies from 20 to 50 cm to 40 m.
It is one of the fastest-growing plants in the world and can grow up to 0.75 m
per day. Curly bamboo lianas reach up to 120 cm in length. The development of
bamboo can depend on climatic conditions, where the growth of tropical species of
bamboo may depend on the level of humidity, during the rainy season, the activity of
growth increases. Other groups of bamboo species are designed for subtropical and
temperate climate with cold or cool winters, and their growth activity is controlled
by seasonal conditions. In addition, if herbaceous bamboo grows exclusively in the
tropics, then some richer species of bamboo meet and feel good in the more northern
cold areas. In the eastern Andes, one can find bamboo Chusquea Aristata at an altitude
of 4700 m above sea level, which here form impenetrable thickets that meet up to the
snowboarder. In the Himalayas, at an altitude of 3800 m. Currently, Bambusa Metake
from Japan and several species of bamboo from China are perfectly acclimatized and
grow in Central Europe. Bamboo are monocarpic plants meaning that after flowering,
they perish. Bamboo flowering occurs very rarely every 60–130 years, after the whole
forest blooms, it comes to the doom of a bamboo grove (Janssen 2000).
10.1.2 Types of Bamboo and Their Feature Specifications
Bamboo (Bambusa) belongs to the same family as Cereals, and there are about 115
genera of bamboo and 1300 species. Almost all varieties of these plants come from
the Far East. Bamboo is an evergreen plant, that has a stiffened stalk, on which
lanceolate leaves and solitary flowers, or paniculate inflorescence, are located at the
top. Bamboo are monocarpic plants meaning that after flowering, they perish. The
bamboo trunk is a long natural “column”, comprised of a uniformly thick and dense
cylinder, with a smooth, siliceous, naturally polished surface (Panday and Suneel
2007). At regular intervals, it is interrupted by annular nodes, each interstitial site
being a completely isolated waterproof vessel. Its size and shape are highly diverse
in terms of the proportions and length of individual internodes, the thickness and
strength of partitions, in straightness, smoothness, and durability. Furthermore, some
bamboo heavy and other are light, and they have different wall thicknesses. Although
it is very strong, bamboo is at the same time elastic; in both and dry forms, it has no
specific smell or taste (Patel 2015).