Mechanical Considerations of the Laminated Composite Structure Modeled on the Anisotropic Organization of a Bamboo(<Special Issue>Bioengineering of Biological and Medical Materials)

We suppose that most organisms have the optimized structures under various environment, but its mechanism has the most complex and many unknown factors. In this paper, we propose that it is useful in engineering to obtain the mechanism of a bamboo structure using the laminate sheet model, through the experiments and the observation of the organizational structure within fibers of a bamboo. Based on the fundamental research of the fiber contents and strength of the bamboo's slices, we could learn how to construct the more fiber or the laminated composite structures by numerical analysis of the elastic-plastic FEM. This paper denoted that it is applicable to obtain the organizational properties of bamboo by the laminate sheet model.