Painel de bambu laminado colado estrutural / Bamboo structural glued laminated panel

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

The search for products manufactured with renewable raw material which can be produced through an industrialization which does not cause environmental impacts led this research work to considerate the use of bamboo culm as woody material to manufacture structural panels that can be used as construction material. Bamboo presents some advantages over other materials, because beside of being renewable as wood is and growing even in poor sites, presents so fast growth that allows the culm to be used for structural purposes from 3 years old. This study was carried out to evaluate physical and mechanical properties of bamboo based panels produced with Dendrocalamus giganteus bamboo species and comparing themselves with each other. The radial variation of fibre vascular bundles inside the bamboo culm wall had motivated taking laminas from two different positions considered anatomically discrepant, next to the epidermis and by the culm center. The culms were mechanically processed in a way to produce external and internal laminas that were glued and pressed originating the GLBe (Glued Laminate Bamboo with external laminas) and GLBi (internal laminas) panels. Specimens were taken from the composites and observed in a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) to evaluate raw material variables and manufacturing process variables that influence the panel quality especially the adhesion between component laminas. The shear strength on glued surface was the critical property among those studied in this research, because being low did affect the modulus of elasticity and, even more intensively, the modulus of rupture both in bending test. Swelling that refers to panel thickness variation due to absorption of water, was considered the most unfavorable property of the panel because accrued to the individual laminas swelling the unexpected displacement that pull apart the panel component layers.

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bamboo laminated bamboo panel estrutura da madeira propriedades físicas lgb bambu propriedades mecânicas. strenght.

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