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**Provisional chapter**

**Recent Advancement in Physico-Mechanical and**

**Recent Advancement in Physico-Mechanical and** 

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.76475

Bamboo has its own role in the development of society. It is widely used as a support tools for sustainable farming and being exceptional resource for variety of income and employment-generating systems. This overlooked biomass provides food, raw material, shelter, medicine for large part of world's population. Bamboo has given a great support to mankind by providing building materials that are extensively used for household products. It has found a good place for industrial applications due to advances in processing technology and increased market demand. Numerous fundamental studies were carried out to highlight their fundamental characteristics prior to industrial exploitation or high end bamboo-based biomaterials. The mechanical and physical properties of bamboo have noteworthy effects on their durability and strength. Thermogravimetry is one of the key sensitive technique that characterizes the mechanical responses of materials by monitoring property changes with respect to the temperature. Comprehensive review and study on thermal analysis are useful for quantitative determination of the degradation behaviour and the composition of the material. The magnitude and location of the derivative thermogravimetric curve also provides information of the interaction between the material components at various temperature scales. Therefore, these studies can be focused to evaluate the basic fundamental problems faced and thus, a well-designed

research and development towards sustainability can be achieved.

**Keywords:** physico-mechanical, thermal properties, thermogravimetry, bamboo

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**Thermal Studies of Bamboo and Its Fibers**

**Thermal Studies of Bamboo and Its Fibers**

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Samsul Rizal, Abdul Khalil H.P.S., Ikramullah,

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**Abstract**

Irshad Ul Haq Bhat, Syifaul Huzni, Sulaiman Thalib, Asniza Mustapha and Chaturbhuj Kumar Saurabh

Irshad Ul Haq Bhat, Syifaul Huzni, Sulaiman Thalib, Asniza Mustapha and Chaturbhuj Kumar Saurabh

#### **Recent Advancement in Physico-Mechanical and Thermal Studies of Bamboo and Its Fibers Recent Advancement in Physico-Mechanical and Thermal Studies of Bamboo and Its Fibers**

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Samsul Rizal, Abdul Khalil H.P.S., Ikramullah, Irshad Ul Haq Bhat, Syifaul Huzni, Sulaiman Thalib, Asniza Mustapha and Chaturbhuj Kumar Saurabh Samsul Rizal, Abdul Khalil H.P.S., Ikramullah, Irshad Ul Haq Bhat, Syifaul Huzni, Sulaiman Thalib, Asniza Mustapha and Chaturbhuj Kumar Saurabh

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http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.76475

#### **Abstract**

Bamboo has its own role in the development of society. It is widely used as a support tools for sustainable farming and being exceptional resource for variety of income and employment-generating systems. This overlooked biomass provides food, raw material, shelter, medicine for large part of world's population. Bamboo has given a great support to mankind by providing building materials that are extensively used for household products. It has found a good place for industrial applications due to advances in processing technology and increased market demand. Numerous fundamental studies were carried out to highlight their fundamental characteristics prior to industrial exploitation or high end bamboo-based biomaterials. The mechanical and physical properties of bamboo have noteworthy effects on their durability and strength. Thermogravimetry is one of the key sensitive technique that characterizes the mechanical responses of materials by monitoring property changes with respect to the temperature. Comprehensive review and study on thermal analysis are useful for quantitative determination of the degradation behaviour and the composition of the material. The magnitude and location of the derivative thermogravimetric curve also provides information of the interaction between the material components at various temperature scales. Therefore, these studies can be focused to evaluate the basic fundamental problems faced and thus, a well-designed research and development towards sustainability can be achieved.

**Keywords:** physico-mechanical, thermal properties, thermogravimetry, bamboo

© 2016 The Author(s). Licensee InTech. This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. © 2018 The Author(s). Licensee IntechOpen. This chapter is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
