...Agrisolar continued...
GREEN POWER ON GREEN BUILD
Solar charging canopies supported by
bamboo for solar driven buses
in rural, off-grid Thailand.
As of now, the aluminium profiles
used for support, are more expensive
than the solar panels themselves.
ANSYS vision of 30 m/sec upwind (suction) stress on the bamboo structure, by KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm. Resulting max compression about 27 MPa, much below critical limits.
URBAN MULTI-STORY BAMBOO HOUSING: The great CO2 sink capacity makes fast-growing bamboo an obvious large scale option for construction materials.
Multi-story, because of the never-ending suburban sprawl with more transport nightmares paralyzing the economy. A reasonable multistory urban density could offer synergy effects when turning garbage into energy, sewers into drinking water, structuring public transport corridors.
L-shape column for flush walls. Buckling prevention, in cooperation with KTH.
DOUBLE DECKER BEAM
This concept could become an efficient bamboo component for modular large-scale prefabrication. Built with a standard height in rigs and proving minimal flexure (due to a high Moment of Inertia) it offers a high slab bearing capacity according to a study by KTH.
Exaggerated flexure simulation in ANSYS of 2 kN/m distributed load on a 4m beam, only 5.3 mm sagging...