Mannan, S, Knox, JP orcid.org/0000-0002-9231-6891 and Basu, S (2017) Correlations between axial stiffness and microstructure of a species of bamboo. Royal Society Open Science, 4 (1). 160412. ISSN 2054-5703
Abstract
Bamboo is a ubiquitous monocotyledonous flowering plant and is a member of the true grass family Poaceae . In many parts of the world, it is widely used as a structural material especially in scaffolding and buildings. In spite of its wide use, there is no accepted methodology for standardizing a species of bamboo for a particular structural purpose. The task of developing structure–property correlations is complicated by the fact that bamboo is a hierarchical material whose structure at the nanoscopic level is not very well explored. However, we show that as far as stiffness is concerned, it is possible to obtain reliable estimates of important structural properties like the axial modulus from the knowledge of certain key elements of the microstructure. Stiffness of bamboo depends most sensitively on the size and arrangement of the fibre sheaths surrounding the vascular bundles and the arrangement of crystalline cellulose microfibrils in their secondary cell walls. For the species of bamboo studied in this work, we have quantitatively determined the radial gradation that the arrangement of fibres renders to the structure. The arrangement of the fibres gives bamboo a radially graded property variation across its cross section.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Biological Sciences (Leeds) > School of Biology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2017 10:46 |
Last Modified: | 05 Oct 2017 16:17 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160412 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | The Royal Society |
Identification Number: | 10.1098/rsos.160412 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:112038 |