Overview
- Includes case studies highlighting new applications/developments of bamboo as a sustainable building material
- Discusses the potential and current perspectives of the use of bamboo in construction and as an applicable material
- Highlights latest applications of bamboo in construction, aiming at its sustainable benefits
Part of the book series: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes (EFEPP)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
Bamboo is considered one of the most sustainable and versatile building materials, driving the development of multiple techniques for its study and utilization. With new techniques to better analyze, comprehend, and exploit its uses, the plant can be used in numerous applications. From direct building material to composites, this book explores the latest developments in the application of bamboo in the sustainable construction industry.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Felipe Luis Palombini is Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Design at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) in Santa Maria (Brazil) and Postdoctoral Researcher in the Graduate Program of Design (PGDesign) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in Porto Alegre (Brazil). He received his M.Sc. and his Ph.D. in the Graduate Program in Design (PGDesign/UFRGS) and was Postdoctoral Researcher at the Graduate Program of Botany (PPGBot/UFRGS). His research interests are focused on bionics, sustainability, design, and materials selection and characterization via finite element analysis and X-ray microtomography. He is also associated with the Design and Computer Simulation Research Group (DSC/UFRGS) and the Plant Anatomy Laboratory (LAVeg/UFRGS).
Dr. Fernanda Mayara Nogueira is Researcher at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Plants from the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences, and Letters at Ribeirao Preto (FFCLRP)—University of Sao Paulo (USP). She received her M.Sc. and Ph.D. in the Graduate Program of Botany (PPGBot) at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). She has experience in the area of plant anatomy and plant morphology with an emphasis on reproductive morphology. Her research interests are in the areas of floral development, reproductive morphology, bioimaging, 3D technologies, and X-ray microtomography.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bamboo and Sustainable Construction
Editors: Felipe Luis Palombini, Fernanda Mayara Nogueira
Series Title: Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0232-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-99-0231-6Published: 03 March 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-99-0234-7Published: 04 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-981-99-0232-3Published: 02 March 2023
Series ISSN: 2345-7651
Series E-ISSN: 2345-766X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 344
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 162 illustrations in colour
Topics: Structural Materials, Building Materials, Sustainable Development, Forestry