Bambu Wulung sebagai Bahan Struktural

Bamboo is one of the to solve problem of wood housing. Bamboo grow rapidly, have good mechanical properties and can be preserved employing simple tech­ niques. This research was done experimental to know physical and mechanical characteristic of bamboo that consists is water content, tensile strength, com­ pression strength, shear strength and bending strength. The result of experi­ mental, the average water content was 16,599%, the average tensile strength was 172,059 MPa, the average compression strength was 40,5 A1Pa, the aver­ age shear strength was, 7, 789 MPa and the average bending strength was 135,813 A1Pa. So bamboo could be used to structural material. Kev works: bamboo, water content, tensile, compression, shear, bending