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SUMMARY:Bamboo\; the Green Reinforcement
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DESCRIPTION:Javadian Alireza\, Chair of Architecture and Construction\, Fu
 ture Cities Laboratory (FCL)\, Singapore-ETH Centre\nBamboo has been used 
 as a construction material for centuries around the globe. The benefits of
  using bamboo are enormous: its fast growth\, high tensile strength\, and 
 the capacity to capture large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmospher
 e are just some of the most remarkable properties it has to offer. For dec
 ades\, researchers around the world have searched for methods to activate 
 those benefits for use within the building sector and transform bamboo fro
 m a locally applied organic material into an industrialized product. Howev
 er\, water absorption\, swelling and shrinking behavior\, durability\, fun
 gi attacks as well as chemical decomposition of bamboo have limited most o
 f the applications so far.  The research conducted at Chair of Architectu
 re and Construction\, Prof. Dirk Hebel at the Future Cities Laboratory Sin
 gapore investigates how the newly developed bamboo composite materials\, h
 ave the potential to overcome most of these limitations and open new appli
 cation fields within the building sector\, especially in the concrete indu
 stry. The research entails investigating the potential to replace steel re
 inforcements in structural concrete applications by the newly developed ba
 mboo composite materials.
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