Engineered bamboo and bamboo engineering

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This Research Summary is based on an international symposium titled Bamboo in the Urban Environment, which took place at the University of Pittsburgh in May 2016. It focuses on topics related to:

  • product development
  • material testing and characterisation
  • testing of connections, and
  • end products.


This document is divided into two broad topics: engineered bamboo and bamboo engineering.

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