A Study on Behavior of Engineering Bamboo for Construction

This study aims to investigate the behavioral properties of bamboo in construction, focusing on tensile and compression experiments conducted on two types of bamboo specimens: node and inter-node. The experiments exclusively utilized the culm part of the bamboo, divided into stem, middle, and end segments. A total of 18 specimens were allocated for the tensile experiment, while 24 were dedi-cated to the compression test. The results reveal that the stem part exhibits an average compression force of 192.33 kN, surpassing the middle part (155.54 kN) and the end part (129.17 kN) as determined by the testing machine.