Bamboo is not wood ... with closed sections every foot or two, is sawn lengthwise into long narrow strips that are then made into rectangular-cross-section pieces that take out the curvature.

The study involved scanning cross-sections of bamboo vascular tissue ... However, their stiffness and strength is comparable to engineered wood products, making them suitable for structural ...

“Bamboo‘s unique thing is its roundness and the circular cross-section nature of it ... as opposed to the 2x2 or 2x6 na kahoy (wood) – yun yung difference,” explained de Guzman. “In comparison to ...

A recent article published in Sustainability explored the impact of novel cross-sectional configurations on low-cost bamboo composite (LCBC) structural members using both experimental and ...