The study evaluates the mechanical properties of a woven bamboo structure made from bamboo strips using an analytical relation and finite element simulation. The bamboo studied is a recently discovered species, Bambusa Nghiana, characterized by long...
After rough planing, defects such as wormholes and small patches of green bark residue and decay are often overlooked and misclassified. Strip-like defects, including splinters and chipped edges, are easily confused with the natural bamboo grain, and...
Fully bio-based composites were obtained from continuous bamboo strips and flame-retardant polyamide 11 (PA11-FR) matrix. A mercerization treatment was performed on the bamboo strips surface to optimize fiber-matrix interactions. Composites were obta...
Detecting surface defects in bamboo strips is essential for producing Asian bamboo products. Currently, the detection of surface defects in bamboo strips mainly relies on manual labor. The labor intensity is high, and the detection efficiency is low....
Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) is a critical forest resource in subtropical China, and reasonable cutting management of moso bamboo forests is essential for improving the productivity of bamboo forests, increasing the income of farmers, and impro...
We aimed to explore the effect of strip cutting width on the physical and mechanical properties of Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis). Four-year-old hairy bamboo with different cutting bandwidths (3 m, 5 m, 8 m, 12 m and 15 m) was used as the experim...
Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys edulis) harvesting is labor-intensive and inefficient, while strip-cutting enables mechanized, cost-effective management and supports long-term production. Intensive strip-cutting disturbs bamboo ecosystems, altering soil,...
Strip cutting has emerged as a new, efficient, and mechanized bamboo forest management model. To shorten the recovery period in strip cutting management, improve bamboo resource quality, prevent soil degradation, and achieve sustainable management, w...
This study aimed to obtain a comprehensive understanding on bamboo as a curve-member manufacturing material by comparative analysis of how different treatment methods on bending properties improve the effect on bamboo strips. In order to achieve this...
The rapid restoration and renewal of the moso bamboo logging zone after strip logging has emerged as a key research area, particularly regarding whether nutrient accumulation and utilization in reserve zones can aid in the restoration and regeneratio...
Bamboo requires treatment to extend its service life. However, as bamboo strips could serve as a suitable candidate for lamination, the treatment may affect its bendability. The current study investigated the effects of boric acid treatment on the ph...
The study systematically explored the effect of alkali concentration and soaking time on the microstructure and tensile properties of single-cellulosic Buluh Semantan. Scanning electron microscopy and tensile tests were conducted to determine the eff...
It is difficult to detect several detailed defects when detecting surface defects in bamboo strips. The morphology of these defect characteristics exhibits relatively simple patterns but closely resembles the underlying fiber texture or coloration, a...
Unreinforced masonry (UM) is well known as a vulnerable structure against earthquakes. However, it remains a popular structural system for low-rise residential housing in many high-seismicity areas, particularly in developing regions due to its low c...
Functional characteristics reflect plant strategies and adaptability to the changing environment. Determining the dynamics of these characteristics after harvesting would improve the understanding of forest response strategies. Strip clearcutting (SC...
Semantan (Gigantochloa scortechinii) and beting (Gigantochloa levis) bamboo are the two Malaysian bamboo that are suitable to be converted into laminated bamboo boards. One of the main criteria for laminated board is its good bondability, which is de...
Improved knowledge of nutrient removals from harvesting is essential for the sustainable management of Moso bamboo forests. In particular, the growth and development of bamboo forests are considered to meet the increasing demand for biomass energy. I...
The effects of the nitrogen source and buffers used in butanol production with Clostridium beijerinckii TISTR 1461 from sweet sorghum stem juice (SSJ) containing 60 g/L of total sugar were first studied in this paper. Among the various nitrogen sourc...
The accurate detection of surface defects in bamboo is critical to maintaining product quality. Traditional inspection methods rely heavily on manual labor, making the manufacturing process labor-intensive and error-prone. To overcome these limitatio...
In the present study, the sustained-release system loading citral was synthesised by using PNIPAm nanohydrogel as a carrier and analysed its drug-release kinetics and mechanism. Four release models, namely zero-order, first-order, Higuchi, and Peppas...
As the fastest growing plant with high tensile strength, bamboo provides an excellent alternative material to replace steel reinforcement in a concrete structure. However, the bond of bamboo embedded in concrete is very poor due to its surface proper...
Controlling the variability in mat structure and properties in bamboo scrimber (BS) is key to producing the product for structural applications, and wide strip scrimber (WBS) is an effective approach. In this study, the effects of scrimmed bamboo bun...
With the scarcity of wood resources and calls for “substituting bamboo for wood” and “substituting bamboo for plastic”, bamboo has gained greater popularity for its abundant reserves and outstanding mechanical properties. Howe...
Restoring the degraded habitat of the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is of paramount importance for the conservation of the species and its forest ecosystem. However, little is known about the impact of ecological restoration interventions on t...
Developing an eco-friendly industry based on green materials, sustainable technologies, and optimum processes with low environmental impact is a general societal goal, but this remains a considerable challenge to achieve. Despite the large number of...
As a natural biomass material, bamboo is subject to variations in culm size as well as in physical and mechanical properties that substantially influence processing and product quality. The diameter, thickness, and hardness of bamboo culms are critic...
Bamboo, as a renewable biomass material, has received wide public attention. However, due to the thin-walled and hollow structure of bamboo, the mainstream processing method is complex and requires splitting the bamboo into narrow strips and then glu...
In Hokkaido, northern Japan, bareroot Sakhalin fir seedlings are conventionally planted in spring and fall, following strip site preparation that alternates managed and unmanaged strips. However, this method requires seven years of weeding due to enc...
Bamboo–wood composites have found extensive applications in the container flooring, furniture, and construction industries. However, commonly utilized bamboo units such as four-side-planed rectangular bamboo strips and bamboo scrimber suffer fr...
Bamboo fiber composite (BFC) is a unidirectional and continuous bamboo fiber composite manufactured by consolidation and gluing of flattened, partially separated bamboo culm strips into thick and dense panels. The composite mechanical properties are...
Bamboo is a typical natural fiber-reinforced composite with excellent mechanical properties, which are determined by its special micro-structure. As the reinforcing phase, the vascular bundles play a central role in the control of the mechanical prop...
At present, bamboo fiber is mainly prepared by rolling and carding after employing the alkali boiling softening method, which is not friendly to the environment. In order to obtain a green and environmentally friendly pretreatment method for preparin...
This paper investigates the effect of innovative cross-sectional configurations on Low-Cost Bamboo Composite (LCBC) structural members. The study employs both experimental and numerical methods with different resin matrices and bamboo species. In thi...
Wildflower strip plantings in intensive agricultural systems have become a widespread tool for promoting pollination services and biological conservation because of their use by wasps and bees. Many of the trap-nesting wasps are important predators o...
Pile–raft foundations are widely used in soft soil engineering due to their good integrity and high stiffness. However, traditional design methods independently design pile–raft foundations and superstructures, ignoring their interaction....
In this paper, we examine and research the effect of long skip connection on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for the tasks of image (surface defect) classification. The standard popular models only apply short skip connection inside blocks (laye...
In this work, a cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs)/few-layer graphene (FLG) hybrid is mechanically stripped from bamboo pulp and expanded graphene (EG) using a grinder. This strategy is scalable and environmentally friendly for high-efficiency exfoliation...
This study investigates the structural behavior of bahareque earth walls, a traditional construction system commonly used in rural areas of northern South America. Bahareque (wattle and daub) walls, consisting of guadua (a bamboo-like material) or wo...
An ecological public welfare forest is an important basis for the construction of national ecological security. This study took public welfare forests at the provincial level or above in Hunan Province as the research object. Based on the in situ mon...
Leaf shape and symmetry is of interest because of the importance of leaves in photosynthesis. Recently, a novel method was proposed to measure the extent of bilateral symmetry in leaves in which a leaf was divided into left and right sides by a strai...
This study investigated the potential of using a nonuniform woven panel with nonuniform strips—thick sticks and thin battens—as an external solar shading screen that addressed daylighting, shading, and mechanical performance factors. The...