What Type of Bamboo Is Best Suitable for Construction?
Bamboo is one of the world’s most popular and useful plants. It has been used as a structural material for millennia. Generally, there are more than 1,600 different species in the bamboo family, different bamboo species offer their own distinct advantages; some species have large and straight culms, while some are smaller and more flexible.
Do all kinds of bamboo suitable for construction?
No, out of around 1,600 bamboo species that have been identified worldwide, only a handful possess the unique characteristics that make them ideal for bamboo construction. Moso is one of them, it is a rhizomatous species of bamboo, and considered as the largest and possibly the most ornamentally charming of all species.
Moso bamboo, also known as Phyllostachys pubescens, is a temperate species of giant timber bamboo native to China and Taiwan. It is the largest temperate bamboo on earth and the most economically important bamboo in China. The name Moso was given by the Japanese and is derived from its Chinese name 'Mao Zhu', which means ‘Hairy Bamboo‘. This bamboo has numerous aesthetic features while continuing to be environmentally renewable, which is widely used in the production of outdoor decking, wall cladding, indoor flooring and all kinds of building.
The most advantage of moso bamboo is its mechanical properties. It comes with an impressive tensile strength, which is equivalent or even superior to those of most hardwood species and other building materials. For instance, the tensile strength and modulus of elasticity (MOE) parallel to grain of Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens) can reach up to 309 MPa and 27.397 GPa in tension, MPa and 3.6-11 GPa in compression, 50-132 MPa and 7.1-18.2 GPa in bending, and 15-20 MPa in shear. This is because its fibers run axially.
Fujian Golden Bamboo Industry Co.,Ltd. is one the companies that use moso bamboo as the raw material to produce outdoor bamboo product. We only select the superior moso bamboo with more than 5 years. Because the mature bamboo produces the densest and hardest fibers of any other bamboo species, makes it perfect for a product that needs to withstand many years of foot traffic.
With the superior raw bamboo material guaranteed, the finished bamboo product enjoys high durability and with perfect dimension stability, not easy to expand or shrinking at the turn of seasons. REBO bamboo is verified with Durability Class 1, Use Class 4, and offered with 30 years warranty. If you are interest in the superior outdoor bamboo product, welcome to contact us for more details.