Mechanical Properties of Bamboo PDF

In this book I have collected many reports on the properties of bamboo.

Since I started bamboo research in 1974, I have collected many publications on bamboo.

However, in contacts with other researchers I became aware of the fact that several of these publications were unknown to them.

Consequently their activities in research or in bamboo projects had to start at a lower level than if they had known some of these publications.

Therefore, I discussed the need for a book like this with several colleagues, and I decided to start writing.

In this book I present data on properties, as published by resear- chers.

Certainly it is not complete; e.g. the proceedings of the bamboo workshop in Cochin in November 1988 are not included; they arrived just too late to be taken into account.

On the other hand, in writing this preface I realize I have forgotten my own thesis.

I do apologize to any colleague whose relevant report is not taken into account as well.

I like to express my feelings of respect to the board of my faculty: they allowed me to spend so much time on this book, and they gave a considerable financial support for the printing costs.