COLUMN DESIGN COMPRESSION PERFORMANCE OF THAI DENDROCALAMUS GIGANTUES LAMINATED BAMBOO

Thai Dendrocalamus Giganteus bamboo (TDG) is the giant size bamboo in Thailand, which make it suitable for processing. Right now in Thailand use the column of bamboo for home building, but it was not a stable building because no standard to guarantee. This research foresaw the importance to use the natural material and had developed the bamboo clump to the laminate bamboo column. In the industry, the production of processed bamboo for most construction works is used the part of bamboo by measure up approximate 2.5 meters from the bottom but this research choosing to use other parts of bamboo to design column and the results show that the bottom part column design get a good result average load of approximately 12852.40 kgf with the stress 514.10 kg/cm2